On 02/19/2015 11:54 AM, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:

This is a 0th order approximation of how we could potentially force the guest
to avoid uncached mappings, at least from the moment the MMU is on. (Before
that, all of memory is implicitly classified as Device-nGnRnE)

The idea (patch #2) is to trap writes to MAIR_EL1, and replace uncached mappings
with cached ones. This way, there is no need to mangle any guest page tables.

The downside is that, to do this correctly, we need to always trap writes to
the VM sysreg group, which includes registers that the guest may write to very
often. To reduce the associated performance hit, patch #1 introduces a fast path
for EL2 to perform trivial sysreg writes on behalf of the guest, without the
need for a full world switch to the host and back.

The main purpose of these patches is to quantify the performance hit, and
verify whether the MAIR_EL1 handling works correctly.

I gave this a quick spin on a VM running with QEMU.

   * VGA output is still distorted, I get random junk black lines in the 
output in between
   * When I add -device nec-usb-xhci -device usb-kbd the VM doesn't even 
boot up

With TCG, both bits work fine.


Alex

Ard Biesheuvel (3):
   arm64: KVM: handle some sysreg writes in EL2
   arm64: KVM: mangle MAIR register to prevent uncached guest mappings
   arm64: KVM: keep trapping of VM sysreg writes enabled

  arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c               |   2 +-
  arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_arm.h |   2 +-
  arch/arm64/kvm/hyp.S             | 101 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
  arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c        |  63 ++++++++++++++++++++----
  4 files changed, 156 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)