[RFC PATCH v2 1/4] arch/x86/kvm: Refactor l1d flush lifecycle management

Balbir Singh
2020-03-25T07:11:21Z

Split out the allocation and free routines to be used in a follow
up set of patches (to reuse for L1D flushing).

Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <sblbir@amazon.com>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/cacheflush.h | 3 +++
arch/x86/kernel/Makefile | 1 +
arch/x86/kernel/l1d_flush.c | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c | 25 +++------------------
4 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 arch/x86/kernel/l1d_flush.c

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/cacheflush.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/cacheflush.h
index 63feaf2a5f93..6419a4cef0e8 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/cacheflush.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/cacheflush.h
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@
#include <asm-generic/cacheflush.h>
#include <asm/special_insns.h>

+#define L1D_CACHE_ORDER 4
void clflush_cache_range(void *addr, unsigned int size);
+void *alloc_l1d_flush_pages(void);
+void cleanup_l1d_flush_pages(void *l1d_flush_pages);

#endif /* _ASM_X86_CACHEFLUSH_H */
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/Makefile b/arch/x86/kernel/Makefile
index 1ee83df407e3..c382f5824162 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/Makefile
@@ -159,3 +159,4 @@ ifeq ($(CONFIG_X86_64),y)
endif

obj-$(CONFIG_IMA_SECURE_AND_OR_TRUSTED_BOOT) += ima_arch.o
+obj-y += l1d_flush.o
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/l1d_flush.c b/arch/x86/kernel/l1d_flush.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..05f375c33423
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/l1d_flush.c
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+#include <linux/mm.h>
+#include <asm/cacheflush.h>
+
+void *alloc_l1d_flush_pages(void)
+{
+ struct page *page;
+ void *l1d_flush_pages = NULL;
+ int i;
+
+ /*
+ * This allocation for l1d_flush_pages is not tied to a VM/task's
+ * lifetime and so should not be charged to a memcg.
+ */
+ page = alloc_pages(GFP_KERNEL, L1D_CACHE_ORDER);
+ if (!page)
+ return NULL;
+ l1d_flush_pages = page_address(page);
+
+ /*
+ * Initialize each page with a different pattern in
+ * order to protect against KSM in the nested
+ * virtualization case.
+ */
+ for (i = 0; i < 1u << L1D_CACHE_ORDER; ++i) {
+ memset(l1d_flush_pages + i * PAGE_SIZE, i + 1,
+ PAGE_SIZE);
+ }
+ return l1d_flush_pages;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(alloc_l1d_flush_pages);
+
+void cleanup_l1d_flush_pages(void *l1d_flush_pages)
+{
+ free_pages((unsigned long)l1d_flush_pages, L1D_CACHE_ORDER);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cleanup_l1d_flush_pages);
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
index 4d22b1b5e822..66d798e1a9d8 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
@@ -202,14 +202,10 @@ static const struct {
[VMENTER_L1D_FLUSH_NOT_REQUIRED] = {"not required", false},
};

-#define L1D_CACHE_ORDER 4
static void *vmx_l1d_flush_pages;

static int vmx_setup_l1d_flush(enum vmx_l1d_flush_state l1tf)
{
- struct page *page;
- unsigned int i;
-
if (!boot_cpu_has_bug(X86_BUG_L1TF)) {
l1tf_vmx_mitigation = VMENTER_L1D_FLUSH_NOT_REQUIRED;
return 0;
@@ -252,24 +248,9 @@ static int vmx_setup_l1d_flush(enum vmx_l1d_flush_state l1tf)

if (l1tf != VMENTER_L1D_FLUSH_NEVER && !vmx_l1d_flush_pages &&
!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_FLUSH_L1D)) {
- /*
- * This allocation for vmx_l1d_flush_pages is not tied to a VM
- * lifetime and so should not be charged to a memcg.
- */
- page = alloc_pages(GFP_KERNEL, L1D_CACHE_ORDER);
- if (!page)
+ vmx_l1d_flush_pages = alloc_l1d_flush_pages();
+ if (!vmx_l1d_flush_pages)
return -ENOMEM;
- vmx_l1d_flush_pages = page_address(page);
-
- /*
- * Initialize each page with a different pattern in
- * order to protect against KSM in the nested
- * virtualization case.
- */
- for (i = 0; i < 1u << L1D_CACHE_ORDER; ++i) {
- memset(vmx_l1d_flush_pages + i * PAGE_SIZE, i + 1,
- PAGE_SIZE);
- }
}

l1tf_vmx_mitigation = l1tf;
@@ -7999,7 +7980,7 @@ static struct kvm_x86_ops vmx_x86_ops __ro_after_init = {
static void vmx_cleanup_l1d_flush(void)
{
if (vmx_l1d_flush_pages) {
- free_pages((unsigned long)vmx_l1d_flush_pages, L1D_CACHE_ORDER);
+ cleanup_l1d_flush_pages(vmx_l1d_flush_pages);
vmx_l1d_flush_pages = NULL;
}
/* Restore state so sysfs ignores VMX */
--
2.17.1