From: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
To: kvmarm@lists.linux.dev, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Wei-Lin Chang <r09922117@csie.ntu.edu.tw>,
Volodymyr Babchuk <Volodymyr_Babchuk@epam.com>,
Dmytro Terletskyi <Dmytro_Terletskyi@epam.com>,
Joey Gouly <joey.gouly@arm.com>,
Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>,
Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>,
Zenghui Yu <yuzenghui@huawei.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] KVM: arm64: timer: Correctly handle EL1 timer emulation when !FEAT_ECV
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2025 16:17:20 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250128161721.3279927-3-maz@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250128161721.3279927-1-maz@kernel.org>
Both Wei-Lin Chang and Volodymyr Babchuk report that the way we
handle the emulation of EL1 timers with NV is completely wrong,
specially in the case of HCR_EL2.E2H==0.
There are three problems in about as many lines of code:
- With E2H==0, the EL1 timers are overwritten with the EL1 state,
while they should actually contain the EL2 state (as per the timer
map)
- With E2H==1, we run the full EL1 timer emulation even when ECV
is present, hiding a bug in timer_emulate() (see previous patch)
- The comments are actively misleading, and say all the wrong things.
This is only attributable to the code having been initially written
for FEAT_NV, hacked up to handle FEAT_NV2 *in parallel*, and vaguely
hacked again to be FEAT_NV2 only. Oh, and yours truly being a gold
plated idiot.
The fix is obvious: just delete most of the E2H==0 code, have a unified
handling of the timers (because they really are E2H agnostic), and
make sure we don't execute any of that when FEAT_ECV is present.
Fixes: 4bad3068cfa9f ("KVM: arm64: nv: Sync nested timer state with FEAT_NV2")
Reported-by: Wei-Lin Chang <r09922117@csie.ntu.edu.tw>
Reported-by: Volodymyr Babchuk <Volodymyr_Babchuk@epam.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/fqiqfjzwpgbzdtouu2pwqlu7llhnf5lmy4hzv5vo6ph4v3vyls@jdcfy3fjjc5k
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/87frl51tse.fsf@epam.com
---
arch/arm64/kvm/arch_timer.c | 30 ++++++++++--------------------
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/arch_timer.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/arch_timer.c
index 035e43f5d4f9a..e59836e0260cf 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/arch_timer.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/arch_timer.c
@@ -974,31 +974,21 @@ void kvm_timer_sync_nested(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
* which allows trapping of the timer registers even with NV2.
* Still, this is still worse than FEAT_NV on its own. Meh.
*/
- if (!vcpu_el2_e2h_is_set(vcpu)) {
- if (cpus_have_final_cap(ARM64_HAS_ECV))
- return;
-
- /*
- * A non-VHE guest hypervisor doesn't have any direct access
- * to its timers: the EL2 registers trap (and the HW is
- * fully emulated), while the EL0 registers access memory
- * despite the access being notionally direct. Boo.
- *
- * We update the hardware timer registers with the
- * latest value written by the guest to the VNCR page
- * and let the hardware take care of the rest.
- */
- write_sysreg_el0(__vcpu_sys_reg(vcpu, CNTV_CTL_EL0), SYS_CNTV_CTL);
- write_sysreg_el0(__vcpu_sys_reg(vcpu, CNTV_CVAL_EL0), SYS_CNTV_CVAL);
- write_sysreg_el0(__vcpu_sys_reg(vcpu, CNTP_CTL_EL0), SYS_CNTP_CTL);
- write_sysreg_el0(__vcpu_sys_reg(vcpu, CNTP_CVAL_EL0), SYS_CNTP_CVAL);
- } else {
+ if (!cpus_have_final_cap(ARM64_HAS_ECV)) {
/*
* For a VHE guest hypervisor, the EL2 state is directly
- * stored in the host EL1 timers, while the emulated EL0
+ * stored in the host EL1 timers, while the emulated EL1
* state is stored in the VNCR page. The latter could have
* been updated behind our back, and we must reset the
* emulation of the timers.
+ *
+ * A non-VHE guest hypervisor doesn't have any direct access
+ * to its timers: the EL2 registers trap despite being
+ * notionally direct (we use the EL1 HW, as for VHE), while
+ * the EL1 registers access memory.
+ *
+ * In both cases, process the emulated timers on each guest
+ * exit. Boo.
*/
struct timer_map map;
get_timer_map(vcpu, &map);
--
2.39.2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-01-28 16:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-01-28 16:17 [PATCH 0/3] KVM/arm64: timer fixes for 6.14 Marc Zyngier
2025-01-28 16:17 ` [PATCH 1/3] KVM: arm64: timer: Always evaluate the need for a soft timer Marc Zyngier
2025-02-04 14:08 ` Dmytro Terletskyi
2025-01-28 16:17 ` Marc Zyngier [this message]
2025-02-04 14:10 ` [PATCH 2/3] KVM: arm64: timer: Correctly handle EL1 timer emulation when !FEAT_ECV Dmytro Terletskyi
2025-01-28 16:17 ` [PATCH 3/3] KVM: arm64: timer: Consolidate NV configuration of virtual timers Marc Zyngier
2025-01-30 21:41 ` Oliver Upton
2025-01-31 8:46 ` Marc Zyngier
2025-02-04 14:15 ` Dmytro Terletskyi
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