[PATCH v9 2/4] mm: Introduce new flag to indicate wc safe

[<ankita@nvidia.com>]

From: Ankit Agrawal <ankita@nvidia.com>

The VM_ALLOW_ANY_UNCACHED flag is implemented for ARM64, allowing KVM
stage 2 device mapping attributes to use NormalNC rather than
DEVICE_nGnRE, which allows guest mappings supporting write-combining
attributes (WC). ARM does not architecturally guarantee this is safe,
and indeed some MMIO regions like the GICv2 VCPU interface can trigger
uncontained faults if NormalNC is used.

Even worse, the expectation is that there are platforms where even
DEVICE_nGnRE can allow uncontained faults in corner cases. Unfortunately
existing ARM IP requires platform integration to take responsibility to
prevent this.

To safely use VFIO in KVM the platform must guarantee full safety in the
guest where no action taken against a MMIO mapping can trigger an
uncontained failure. The assumption is that most VFIO PCI platforms
support this for both mapping types, at least in common flows, based
on some expectations of how PCI IP is integrated. This can be enabled
more broadly, for instance into vfio-platform drivers, but only after
the platform vendor completes auditing for safety.

The VMA flag VM_ALLOW_ANY_UNCACHED was found to be the simplest and
cleanest way to communicate the information from VFIO to KVM that
mapping the region in S2 as NormalNC is safe. KVM consumes it to
activate the code that does the S2 mapping as NormalNC.

Suggested-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ankit Agrawal <ankita@nvidia.com>
---
 include/linux/mm.h | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index f5a97dec5169..59576e56c58b 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -391,6 +391,20 @@ extern unsigned int kobjsize(const void *objp);
 # define VM_UFFD_MINOR		VM_NONE
 #endif /* CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_USERFAULTFD_MINOR */
 
+/*
+ * This flag is used to connect VFIO to arch specific KVM code. It
+ * indicates that the memory under this VMA is safe for use with any
+ * non-cachable memory type inside KVM. Some VFIO devices, on some
+ * platforms, are thought to be unsafe and can cause machine crashes
+ * if KVM does not lock down the memory type.
+ */
+#ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
+#define VM_ALLOW_ANY_UNCACHED_BIT	39
+#define VM_ALLOW_ANY_UNCACHED		BIT(VM_ALLOW_ANY_UNCACHED_BIT)
+#else
+#define VM_ALLOW_ANY_UNCACHED		VM_NONE
+#endif
+
 /* Bits set in the VMA until the stack is in its final location */
 #define VM_STACK_INCOMPLETE_SETUP (VM_RAND_READ | VM_SEQ_READ | VM_STACK_EARLY)
 
-- 
2.34.1


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