[RFC 06/55] KVM: arm64: Add EL2 execution context for nesting

Jintack Lim
2017-07-03T14:44:51Z

Thanks Christoffer and Marc,

On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 5:54 AM, Christoffer Dall <cdall@linaro.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 03, 2017 at 10:32:45AM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>> On 03/07/17 10:03, Christoffer Dall wrote:
>> > On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 10:33:23AM -0400, Jintack Lim wrote:
>> >> Hi Christoffer,
>> >>
>> >> On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 6:10 AM, Christoffer Dall <cdall@linaro.org> wrote:
>> >>> On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 01:24:02AM -0500, Jintack Lim wrote:
>> >>>> With the nested virtualization support, the context of the guest
>> >>>> includes EL2 register states. The host manages a set of virtual EL2
>> >>>> registers. In addition to that, the guest hypervisor supposed to run in
>> >>>> EL2 is now deprivilaged and runs in EL1. So, the host also manages a set
>> >>>> of shadow system registers to be able to run the guest hypervisor in
>> >>>> EL1.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Signed-off-by: Jintack Lim <jintack@cs.columbia.edu>
>> >>>> Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
>> >>>> ---
>> >>>> arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 54 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> >>>> 1 file changed, 54 insertions(+)
>> >>>>
>> >>>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
>> >>>> index c0c8b02..ed78d73 100644
>> >>>> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
>> >>>> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
>> >>>> @@ -146,6 +146,42 @@ enum vcpu_sysreg {
>> >>>> NR_SYS_REGS /* Nothing after this line! */
>> >>>> };
>> >>>>
>> >>>> +enum el2_regs {
>> >>>> + ELR_EL2,
>> >>>> + SPSR_EL2,
>> >>>> + SP_EL2,
>> >>>> + AMAIR_EL2,
>> >>>> + MAIR_EL2,
>> >>>> + TCR_EL2,
>> >>>> + TTBR0_EL2,
>> >>>> + VTCR_EL2,
>> >>>> + VTTBR_EL2,
>> >>>> + VMPIDR_EL2,
>> >>>> + VPIDR_EL2, /* 10 */
>> >>>> + MDCR_EL2,
>> >>>> + CNTHCTL_EL2,
>> >>>> + CNTHP_CTL_EL2,
>> >>>> + CNTHP_CVAL_EL2,
>> >>>> + CNTHP_TVAL_EL2,
>> >>>> + CNTVOFF_EL2,
>> >>>> + ACTLR_EL2,
>> >>>> + AFSR0_EL2,
>> >>>> + AFSR1_EL2,
>> >>>> + CPTR_EL2, /* 20 */
>> >>>> + ESR_EL2,
>> >>>> + FAR_EL2,
>> >>>> + HACR_EL2,
>> >>>> + HCR_EL2,
>> >>>> + HPFAR_EL2,
>> >>>> + HSTR_EL2,
>> >>>> + RMR_EL2,
>> >>>> + RVBAR_EL2,
>> >>>> + SCTLR_EL2,
>> >>>> + TPIDR_EL2, /* 30 */
>> >>>> + VBAR_EL2,
>> >>>> + NR_EL2_REGS /* Nothing after this line! */
>> >>>> +};
>> >>>
>> >>> Why do we have a separate enum and array for the EL2 regs and not simply
>> >>> expand vcpu_sysreg ?
>> >>
>> >> We can expand vcpu_sysreg for the EL2 system registers. For SP_EL2,
>> >> SPSR_EL2, and ELR_EL2, where is the good place to locate them?.
>> >> SP_EL1, SPSR_EL1, and ELR_EL1 registers are saved in the kvm_regs
>> >> structure instead of sysregs[], so I wonder it's better to put them in
>> >> kvm_regs, too.
>> >>
>> >> BTW, what's the reason that those EL1 registers are in kvm_regs
>> >> instead of sysregs[] in the first place?
>> >>
>> >
>> > This has mostly to do with the way we export things to userspace, and
>> > for historical reasons.
>> >
>> > So we should either expand kvm_regs with the non-sysregs EL2 registers
>> > and expand sys_regs with the EL2 sysregs, or we should put everything
>> > EL2 into an EL2 array. I feel like the first solution will fit more
>> > nicely into the current design, but I don't have a very strong
>> > preference.
>> >
>> > You should look at the KVM_{GET,SET}_ONE_REG API definition and think
>> > about how your choice will fit with this.
>> >
>> > Marc, any preference?
>>
>> My worry is that by changing kvm_regs, we're touching a userspace
>> visible structure. I'm not sure we can avoid it, but I'd like to avoid
>> putting too much there (SPSR_EL2 and ELR_EL2 should be enough). I just
>> had a panic moment when realizing that this structure is not versioned,
>> but the whole ONE_REG API seems to save us from a complete disaster.
>>
>> Overall, having kvm_regs as a UAPI visible thing retrospectively strikes
>> me as a dangerous design, as we cannot easily expand it. Maybe we should
>> consider having a kvm_regs_v2 that embeds kvm_regs, and not directly
>> expose it to userspace (but instead expose the indexes in that
>> structure)? Userspace that knows how to deal with EL2 will use the new
>> indexes, while existing SW will carry on using the EL1/EL0 version.
>
> We definitely cannot expand kvm_regs, that would lead to all sorts of
> potential errors, as you correctly point out.

Ok. I didn't know that kvm_regs are exposed to the user space.

>
> So we probably need something like that, or simply let it stay the way
> it is for now, and add el2_core_regs as a separate thing to the vcpu and
> only expose the indexes and encoding for those registers?
>

Sounds good to me.

So, expand sys_regs with the EL2 sysregs and put the special purpose
registers, which is the term used in ARM ARM, such as SPSR_EL2,
ELR_EL2 and SP_EL2 into el2_core_regs or el2_special_regs, right?

>>
>> sysregs are easier to deal with, as they are visible through their
>> encoding, and we can place the anywhere we want. sys_regs is as good a
>> location as any.
>>
>
> Agreed.
>
> Thanks,
> -Christoffer