Re: [RFC PATCH 6/7] arm64: KVM: Handle trappable TLB instructions

Punit Agrawal
2016-08-26T09:40:07Z

Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@arm.com> writes:

> Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> writes:
>
>> Hi Punit,
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 11:45:11AM +0100, Punit Agrawal wrote:
>>> The ARMv8 architecture allows trapping of TLB maintenane instructions
>>> from EL0/EL1 to higher exception levels. On encountering a trappable TLB
>>> instruction in a guest, an exception is taken to EL2.
>>>
>>> Add functionality to handle emulating the TLB instructions.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@arm.com>
>>> Cc: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
>>> Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>> +void __hyp_text
>>> +__kvm_emulate_tlb_invalidate(struct kvm *kvm, u32 sys_op, u64 regval)
>>> +{
>>> + kvm = kern_hyp_va(kvm);
>>> +
>>> + /*
>>> + * Switch to the guest before performing any TLB operations to
>>> + * target the appropriate VMID
>>> + */
>>> + __switch_to_guest_regime(kvm);
>>> +
>>> + /*
>>> + * TLB maintenance operations broadcast to inner-shareable
>>> + * domain when HCR_FB is set (default for KVM).
>>> + */
>>> + switch (sys_op) {
>>> + case TLBIALL:
>>> + case TLBIALLIS:
>>> + case ITLBIALL:
>>> + case DTLBIALL:
>>> + case TLBI_VMALLE1:
>>> + case TLBI_VMALLE1IS:
>>> + __tlbi(vmalle1is);
>>> + break;
>>> + case TLBIMVA:
>>> + case TLBIMVAIS:
>>> + case ITLBIMVA:
>>> + case DTLBIMVA:
>>> + case TLBI_VAE1:
>>> + case TLBI_VAE1IS:
>>> + __tlbi(vae1is, regval);
>>
>> I'm pretty nervous about this. Although you've switched in the guest stage-2
>> page table before the TLB maintenance, we're still running on a host stage-1
>> and it's not clear to me that the stage-1 context is completely ignored for
>> the purposes of a stage-1 TLBI executed at EL2.
>>
>> For example, if TCR_EL1.TBI0 is set in the guest but cleared in the host,
>> my reading of the architecture is that it will be treated as zero when
>> we perform this invalidation operation. I worry that we have similar
>> problems with the granule size, where bits become RES0 in the TLBI VA
>> ops.
>
> Some control bits seem to be explicitly called out to not affect TLB
> maintenance operations[0] but I hadn't considered the ones you highlight.
>
> [0] ARMv8 ARM DDI 0487A.j D4.7, Pg D4-1814
>
>>
>> Finally, we should probably be masking out the RES0 bits in the TLBI
>> ops, just in case some future extension to the architecture defines them
>> in such a way where they have different meanings when executed at EL2
>> or EL1.
>
> Although, the RES0 bits for TLBI VA ops are currently ignored, I agree
> that masking them out based on granule size protects against future
> incompatible changes.
>
>>
>> The easiest thing to do is just TLBI VMALLE1IS for all trapped operations,
>> but you might want to see how that performs.
>
> That sounds reasonable for correctness. But I suspect we'll have to do
> more to claw back some performance. Let me run a few tests and come back
> on this.

Assuming I've correctly switched in TCR and replacing the various TLB
operations in this patch with TLBI VMALLE1IS, there is a drop in kernel
build times of ~5% (384s vs 363s).

For the next version, I'll use this as a starting point and try clawing
back the loss by using the appropriate TLB instructions albeit with
additional sanity checking based on context.

>
> Thanks for having a look.
>
> Punit
>
>>
>> Will
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