Re: [PATCH v1 00/24] Opt-in always-on nVHE hypervisor
From: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Date: 2020-11-11 14:32:55
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Hi David, On 2020-11-09 11:32, David Brazdil wrote:
As we progress towards being able to keep guest state private to the host running nVHE hypervisor, this series allows the hypervisor to install itself on newly booted CPUs before the host is allowed to run on them. All functionality described below is opt-in, guarded by an early param 'kvm-arm.protected'. Future patches specific to the new "protected" mode should be hidden behind the same param. The hypervisor starts trapping host SMCs and intercepting host's PSCI CPU_ON/OFF/SUSPEND calls. It replaces the host's entry point with its own, initializes the EL2 state of the new CPU and installs the nVHE hyp vector before ERETing to the host's entry point. The kernel checks new cores' features against the finalized system capabilities. To avoid the need to move this code/data to EL2, the implementation only allows to boot cores that were online at the time of KVM initialization and therefore had been checked already. Other PSCI SMCs are forwarded to EL3, though only the known set of SMCs implemented in the kernel is allowed. Non-PSCI SMCs are also forwarded to EL3. Future changes will need to ensure the safety of all SMCs wrt. private guests. The host is still allowed to reset EL2 back to the stub vector, eg. for hibernation or kexec, but will not disable nVHE when there are no VMs. Tested on Rock Pi 4b, based on 5.10-rc3.
I think I've gone through most of the patches. When you respin this
series, you may want to do so on top of my host EL2 entry rework [1],
which change a few things you currently rely on.
If anything in there doesn't work for you, please let me know.
Thanks,
M.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20201109175923.445945-1-maz@kernel.org/ (local)
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