Thread (50 messages) 50 messages, 3 authors, 2018-09-25

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

From: suzuki.poulose@arm.com (Suzuki K Poulose)
Date: 2018-09-25 10:24:40
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On 09/25/2018 11:00 AM, Auger Eric wrote:
Hi Suzuki,

On 9/17/18 12:41 PM, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
quoted
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
more levels?
quoted
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
quoted
@@ -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));
+
nit: new line not requested
Fixed all the above

Suzuki
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