Re: [PATCH v2 7/7] KVM: arm64: Create a fast stage-2 unmap path

Oliver Upton
2023-03-30T00:42:27Z

On Mon, Feb 06, 2023 at 05:23:40PM +0000, Raghavendra Rao Ananta wrote:
> The current implementation of the stage-2 unmap walker
> traverses the entire page-table to clear and flush the TLBs
> for each entry. This could be very expensive, especially if
> the VM is not backed by hugepages. The unmap operation could be
> made efficient by disconnecting the table at the very
> top (level at which the largest block mapping can be hosted)
> and do the rest of the unmapping using free_removed_table().
> If the system supports FEAT_TLBIRANGE, flush the entire range
> that has been disconnected from the rest of the page-table.
>
> Suggested-by: Ricardo Koller <ricarkol@google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Raghavendra Rao Ananta <rananta@google.com>
> ---
> arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 44 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c
> index 0858d1fa85d6b..af3729d0971f2 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c
> @@ -1017,6 +1017,49 @@ static int stage2_unmap_walker(const struct kvm_pgtable_visit_ctx *ctx,
> return 0;
> }
>
> +/*
> + * The fast walker executes only if the unmap size is exactly equal to the
> + * largest block mapping supported (i.e. at KVM_PGTABLE_MIN_BLOCK_LEVEL),
> + * such that the underneath hierarchy at KVM_PGTABLE_MIN_BLOCK_LEVEL can
> + * be disconnected from the rest of the page-table without the need to
> + * traverse all the PTEs, at all the levels, and unmap each and every one
> + * of them. The disconnected table is freed using free_removed_table().
> + */
> +static int fast_stage2_unmap_walker(const struct kvm_pgtable_visit_ctx *ctx,
> + enum kvm_pgtable_walk_flags visit)
> +{
> + struct kvm_pgtable_mm_ops *mm_ops = ctx->mm_ops;
> + kvm_pte_t *childp = kvm_pte_follow(ctx->old, mm_ops);
> + struct kvm_s2_mmu *mmu = ctx->arg;
> +
> + if (!kvm_pte_valid(ctx->old) || ctx->level != KVM_PGTABLE_MIN_BLOCK_LEVEL)
> + return 0;
> +
> + if (!stage2_try_break_pte(ctx, mmu))
> + return -EAGAIN;
> +
> + /*
> + * Gain back a reference for stage2_unmap_walker() to free
> + * this table entry from KVM_PGTABLE_MIN_BLOCK_LEVEL - 1.
> + */
> + mm_ops->get_page(ctx->ptep);

Doesn't this run the risk of a potential UAF if the refcount was 1 before
calling stage2_try_break_pte()? IOW, stage2_try_break_pte() will drop
the refcount to 0 on the page before this ever gets called.

Also, AFAICT this misses the CMOs that are required on systems w/o
FEAT_FWB. Without them it is possible that the host will read something
other than what was most recently written by the guest if it is using
noncacheable memory attributes at stage-1.

I imagine the actual bottleneck is the DSB required after every
CMO/TLBI. Theoretically, the unmap path could be updated to:

- Perform the appropriate CMOs for every valid leaf entry *without*
issuing a DSB.

- Elide TLBIs entirely that take place in the middle of the walk

- After the walk completes, dsb(ish) to guarantee that the CMOs have
completed and the invalid PTEs are made visible to the hardware
walkers. This should be done implicitly by the TLBI implementation

- Invalidate the [addr, addr + size) range of IPAs

This would also avoid over-invalidating stage-1 since we blast the
entire stage-1 context for every stage-2 invalidation. Thoughts?

> + mm_ops->free_removed_table(childp, ctx->level);
> + return 0;
> +}
> +

--
Thanks,
Oliver