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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2019-05-17 10:33:30 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2019-05-17 10:33:30 -0700 |
commit | 0ef0fd351550130129bbdb77362488befd7b69d2 (patch) | |
tree | 23186172f5f85c06e18e3ee1a9619879df03c5df /Documentation/arm64 | |
parent | 4489da7183099f569a7d3dd819c975073c04bc72 (diff) | |
parent | c011d23ba046826ccf8c4a4a6c1d01c9ccaa1403 (diff) | |
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Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm
Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
"ARM:
- support for SVE and Pointer Authentication in guests
- PMU improvements
POWER:
- support for direct access to the POWER9 XIVE interrupt controller
- memory and performance optimizations
x86:
- support for accessing memory not backed by struct page
- fixes and refactoring
Generic:
- dirty page tracking improvements"
* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (155 commits)
kvm: fix compilation on aarch64
Revert "KVM: nVMX: Expose RDPMC-exiting only when guest supports PMU"
kvm: x86: Fix L1TF mitigation for shadow MMU
KVM: nVMX: Disable intercept for FS/GS base MSRs in vmcs02 when possible
KVM: PPC: Book3S: Remove useless checks in 'release' method of KVM device
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: XIVE: Fix spelling mistake "acessing" -> "accessing"
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Make sure to load LPID for radix VCPUs
kvm: nVMX: Set nested_run_pending in vmx_set_nested_state after checks complete
tests: kvm: Add tests for KVM_SET_NESTED_STATE
KVM: nVMX: KVM_SET_NESTED_STATE - Tear down old EVMCS state before setting new state
tests: kvm: Add tests for KVM_CAP_MAX_VCPUS and KVM_CAP_MAX_CPU_ID
tests: kvm: Add tests to .gitignore
KVM: Introduce KVM_CAP_MANUAL_DIRTY_LOG_PROTECT2
KVM: Fix kvm_clear_dirty_log_protect off-by-(minus-)one
KVM: Fix the bitmap range to copy during clear dirty
KVM: arm64: Fix ptrauth ID register masking logic
KVM: x86: use direct accessors for RIP and RSP
KVM: VMX: Use accessors for GPRs outside of dedicated caching logic
KVM: x86: Omit caching logic for always-available GPRs
kvm, x86: Properly check whether a pfn is an MMIO or not
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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/arm64')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/arm64/perf.txt | 85 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/arm64/pointer-authentication.txt | 22 |
2 files changed, 103 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/perf.txt b/Documentation/arm64/perf.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..0d6a7d87d49e --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/arm64/perf.txt @@ -0,0 +1,85 @@ +Perf Event Attributes +===================== + +Author: Andrew Murray <andrew.murray@arm.com> +Date: 2019-03-06 + +exclude_user +------------ + +This attribute excludes userspace. + +Userspace always runs at EL0 and thus this attribute will exclude EL0. + + +exclude_kernel +-------------- + +This attribute excludes the kernel. + +The kernel runs at EL2 with VHE and EL1 without. Guest kernels always run +at EL1. + +For the host this attribute will exclude EL1 and additionally EL2 on a VHE +system. + +For the guest this attribute will exclude EL1. Please note that EL2 is +never counted within a guest. + + +exclude_hv +---------- + +This attribute excludes the hypervisor. + +For a VHE host this attribute is ignored as we consider the host kernel to +be the hypervisor. + +For a non-VHE host this attribute will exclude EL2 as we consider the +hypervisor to be any code that runs at EL2 which is predominantly used for +guest/host transitions. + +For the guest this attribute has no effect. Please note that EL2 is +never counted within a guest. + + +exclude_host / exclude_guest +---------------------------- + +These attributes exclude the KVM host and guest, respectively. + +The KVM host may run at EL0 (userspace), EL1 (non-VHE kernel) and EL2 (VHE +kernel or non-VHE hypervisor). + +The KVM guest may run at EL0 (userspace) and EL1 (kernel). + +Due to the overlapping exception levels between host and guests we cannot +exclusively rely on the PMU's hardware exception filtering - therefore we +must enable/disable counting on the entry and exit to the guest. This is +performed differently on VHE and non-VHE systems. + +For non-VHE systems we exclude EL2 for exclude_host - upon entering and +exiting the guest we disable/enable the event as appropriate based on the +exclude_host and exclude_guest attributes. + +For VHE systems we exclude EL1 for exclude_guest and exclude both EL0,EL2 +for exclude_host. Upon entering and exiting the guest we modify the event +to include/exclude EL0 as appropriate based on the exclude_host and +exclude_guest attributes. + +The statements above also apply when these attributes are used within a +non-VHE guest however please note that EL2 is never counted within a guest. + + +Accuracy +-------- + +On non-VHE hosts we enable/disable counters on the entry/exit of host/guest +transition at EL2 - however there is a period of time between +enabling/disabling the counters and entering/exiting the guest. We are +able to eliminate counters counting host events on the boundaries of guest +entry/exit when counting guest events by filtering out EL2 for +exclude_host. However when using !exclude_hv there is a small blackout +window at the guest entry/exit where host events are not captured. + +On VHE systems there are no blackout windows. diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/pointer-authentication.txt b/Documentation/arm64/pointer-authentication.txt index 5baca42ba146..fc71b33de87e 100644 --- a/Documentation/arm64/pointer-authentication.txt +++ b/Documentation/arm64/pointer-authentication.txt @@ -87,7 +87,21 @@ used to get and set the keys for a thread. Virtualization -------------- -Pointer authentication is not currently supported in KVM guests. KVM -will mask the feature bits from ID_AA64ISAR1_EL1, and attempted use of -the feature will result in an UNDEFINED exception being injected into -the guest. +Pointer authentication is enabled in KVM guest when each virtual cpu is +initialised by passing flags KVM_ARM_VCPU_PTRAUTH_[ADDRESS/GENERIC] and +requesting these two separate cpu features to be enabled. The current KVM +guest implementation works by enabling both features together, so both +these userspace flags are checked before enabling pointer authentication. +The separate userspace flag will allow to have no userspace ABI changes +if support is added in the future to allow these two features to be +enabled independently of one another. + +As Arm Architecture specifies that Pointer Authentication feature is +implemented along with the VHE feature so KVM arm64 ptrauth code relies +on VHE mode to be present. + +Additionally, when these vcpu feature flags are not set then KVM will +filter out the Pointer Authentication system key registers from +KVM_GET/SET_REG_* ioctls and mask those features from cpufeature ID +register. Any attempt to use the Pointer Authentication instructions will +result in an UNDEFINED exception being injected into the guest. |