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[v3,08/21] KVM: arm64: Don't overwrite software bits with owner id

Message ID 20210729132818.4091769-9-qperret@google.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series Track shared pages at EL2 in protected mode | expand

Commit Message

Quentin Perret July 29, 2021, 1:28 p.m. UTC
We will soon start annotating page-tables with new flags to track shared
pages and such, and we will do so in valid mappings using software bits
in the PTEs, as provided by the architecture. However, it is possible
that we will need to use those flags to annotate invalid mappings as
well in the future, similar to what we do to track page ownership in the
host stage-2.

In order to facilitate the annotation of invalid mappings with such
flags, it would be preferable to re-use the same bits as for valid
mappings (bits [58-55]), but these are currently used for ownership
encoding. Since we have plenty of bits left to use in invalid
mappings, move the ownership bits further down the PTE to avoid the
conflict.

Signed-off-by: Quentin Perret <qperret@google.com>
---
 arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Fuad Tabba Aug. 2, 2021, 9:38 a.m. UTC | #1
Hi Quentin,

On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 3:28 PM Quentin Perret <qperret@google.com> wrote:
>
> We will soon start annotating page-tables with new flags to track shared
> pages and such, and we will do so in valid mappings using software bits
> in the PTEs, as provided by the architecture. However, it is possible
> that we will need to use those flags to annotate invalid mappings as
> well in the future, similar to what we do to track page ownership in the
> host stage-2.
>
> In order to facilitate the annotation of invalid mappings with such
> flags, it would be preferable to re-use the same bits as for valid
> mappings (bits [58-55]), but these are currently used for ownership
> encoding. Since we have plenty of bits left to use in invalid
> mappings, move the ownership bits further down the PTE to avoid the
> conflict.
>
> Signed-off-by: Quentin Perret <qperret@google.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c
> index 59a394d82de3..1ee1168ac32d 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c
> @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
>                                          KVM_PTE_LEAF_ATTR_LO_S2_S2AP_W | \
>                                          KVM_PTE_LEAF_ATTR_HI_S2_XN)
>
> -#define KVM_INVALID_PTE_OWNER_MASK     GENMASK(63, 56)
> +#define KVM_INVALID_PTE_OWNER_MASK     GENMASK(9, 2)
>  #define KVM_MAX_OWNER_ID               1

This change makes sense so that the same bits can be used to track sharing.

Reviewed-by: Fuad Tabba <tabba@google.com>

Thanks,
/fuad

>
>  struct kvm_pgtable_walk_data {

> --
> 2.32.0.432.gabb21c7263-goog
>
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Patch

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c
index 59a394d82de3..1ee1168ac32d 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ 
 					 KVM_PTE_LEAF_ATTR_LO_S2_S2AP_W | \
 					 KVM_PTE_LEAF_ATTR_HI_S2_XN)
 
-#define KVM_INVALID_PTE_OWNER_MASK	GENMASK(63, 56)
+#define KVM_INVALID_PTE_OWNER_MASK	GENMASK(9, 2)
 #define KVM_MAX_OWNER_ID		1
 
 struct kvm_pgtable_walk_data {