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[PATCH v5 17/18] kvm: arm64: Limit the minimum number of page table levels

From: suzuki.poulose@arm.com (Suzuki K Poulose)
Date: 2018-09-17 10:43:12
Also in: kvm, kvmarm, lkml
Subsystem: arm64 port (aarch64 architecture), kernel virtual machine for arm64 (kvm/arm64), the rest · Maintainers: Catalin Marinas, Will Deacon, Marc Zyngier, Oliver Upton, Linus Torvalds

Since we are about to remove the lower limit on the IPA size,
make sure that we do not go to 1 level page table (e.g, with
32bit IPA on 64K host with concatenation) to avoid splitting
the host PMD huge pages at stage2.

Cc: Marc Zyngier <redacted>
Cc: Christoffer Dall <cdall@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/stage2_pgtable.h |  8 +++++++-
 arch/arm64/kvm/reset.c                  | 12 +++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/stage2_pgtable.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/stage2_pgtable.h
index 352ec4158fdf..6a56fdff0823 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/stage2_pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/stage2_pgtable.h
@@ -72,8 +72,14 @@
 /*
  * The number of PTRS across all concatenated stage2 tables given by the
  * number of bits resolved at the initial level.
+ * If we force more number of levels than necessary, we may have
+ * stage2_pgdir_shift > IPA, in which case, stage2_pgd_ptrs will have
+ * one entry.
  */
-#define __s2_pgd_ptrs(ipa, lvls)	(1 << ((ipa) - pt_levels_pgdir_shift((lvls))))
+#define pgd_ptrs_shift(ipa, pgdir_shift)	\
+	((ipa) > (pgdir_shift) ? ((ipa) - (pgdir_shift)) : 0)
+#define __s2_pgd_ptrs(ipa, lvls)		\
+	(1 << (pgd_ptrs_shift((ipa), pt_levels_pgdir_shift(lvls))))
 #define __s2_pgd_size(ipa, lvls)	(__s2_pgd_ptrs((ipa), (lvls)) * sizeof(pgd_t))
 
 #define stage2_pgd_ptrs(kvm)		__s2_pgd_ptrs(kvm_phys_shift(kvm), kvm_stage2_levels(kvm))
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/reset.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/reset.c
index 76972b19bdd7..0393bb974b23 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/reset.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/reset.c
@@ -190,10 +190,19 @@ int kvm_arm_config_vm(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned long type)
 {
 	u64 vtcr = VTCR_EL2_FLAGS;
 	u64 parange;
+	u8 lvls;
 
 	if (type)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
+	/*
+	 * Use a minimum 2 level page table to prevent splitting
+	 * host PMD huge pages@stage2.
+	 */
+	lvls = stage2_pgtable_levels(KVM_PHYS_SHIFT);
+	if (lvls < 2)
+		lvls = 2;
+
 	parange = read_sanitised_ftr_reg(SYS_ID_AA64MMFR0_EL1) & 7;
 	if (parange > ID_AA64MMFR0_PARANGE_MAX)
 		parange = ID_AA64MMFR0_PARANGE_MAX;
@@ -210,7 +219,8 @@ int kvm_arm_config_vm(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned long type)
 	vtcr |= (kvm_get_vmid_bits() == 16) ?
 		VTCR_EL2_VS_16BIT :
 		VTCR_EL2_VS_8BIT;
-	vtcr |= VTCR_EL2_LVLS_TO_SL0(stage2_pgtable_levels(KVM_PHYS_SHIFT));
+
+	vtcr |= VTCR_EL2_LVLS_TO_SL0(lvls);
 	vtcr |= VTCR_EL2_T0SZ(KVM_PHYS_SHIFT);
 
 	kvm->arch.vtcr = vtcr;
-- 
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