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Re: [PATCH] KVM: arm64: Disable LTO in hyp

From: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Date: 2021-03-05 16:56:32
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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

On Fri, Mar 5, 2021 at 6:22 AM Ard Biesheuvel [off-list ref] wrote:
On Fri, 5 Mar 2021 at 12:38, Marc Zyngier [off-list ref] wrote:
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On Fri, 05 Mar 2021 02:38:17 +0000,
Sami Tolvanen [off-list ref] wrote:
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On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 2:34 PM Sami Tolvanen [off-list ref] wrote:
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On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 2:17 PM Marc Zyngier [off-list ref] wrote:
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On Thu, 04 Mar 2021 21:25:41 +0000,
Sami Tolvanen [off-list ref] wrote:
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I assume hyp_panic() ends up being placed too far from __guest_enter()
when the kernel is large enough. Possibly something to do with LLVM
always splitting functions into separate sections with LTO. I'm not
sure why the linker cannot shuffle things around to make everyone
happy in this case, but I confirmed that this patch also fixes the
build issue for me:
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/vhe/switch.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/vhe/switch.c
index af8e940d0f03..128197b7c794 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/vhe/switch.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/vhe/switch.c
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ static void __hyp_call_panic(u64 spsr, u64 elr, u64 par)
 }
 NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(__hyp_call_panic);

-void __noreturn hyp_panic(void)
+void __noreturn hyp_panic(void) __section(".text")
 {
        u64 spsr = read_sysreg_el2(SYS_SPSR);
        u64 elr = read_sysreg_el2(SYS_ELR);
We're getting into black-magic territory here. Why wouldn't hyp_panic
be in the .text section already?
It's not quite black magic. LLVM essentially flips on
-ffunction-sections with LTO and therefore, hyp_panic() will be in
.text.hyp_panic in vmlinux.o, while __guest_enter() will be in .text.
Everything ends up in .text when we link vmlinux, of course.

$ readelf --sections vmlinux.o | grep hyp_panic
  [3936] .text.hyp_panic   PROGBITS         0000000000000000  004b56e4
Note that disabling LTO here has essentially the same effect as using
__section(".text"). It stops the compiler from splitting these
functions into .text.* sections and makes it less likely that
hyp_panic() ends up too far away from __guest_enter().

If neither of these workarounds sound appealing, I suppose we could
alternatively change hyp/entry.S to use adr_l for hyp_panic. Thoughts?
That would be an actual fix instead of a workaround, as it would
remove existing assumptions about the relative locations of the two
objects. I guess you need to fix both instances with something such
as:
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/entry.S b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/entry.S
index b0afad7a99c6..a43e1f7ee354 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/entry.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/entry.S
@@ -85,8 +85,10 @@ SYM_INNER_LABEL(__guest_exit_panic, SYM_L_GLOBAL)

        // If the hyp context is loaded, go straight to hyp_panic
        get_loaded_vcpu x0, x1
-       cbz     x0, hyp_panic
-
+       cbnz    x0, 1f
+       adr_l   x0, hyp_panic
+       br      x0
+1:
Agree with replacing the conditional branches that refer to external
symbols: the compiler never emits those, for the reason we are seeing
here, i.e., the range is simply insufficient.

But let's just use 'b hyp_panic' instead, no?
Alright, this seems to work for me:
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/entry.S b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/entry.S
index b0afad7a99c6..c62265951467 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/entry.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/entry.S
@@ -85,8 +85,10 @@ SYM_INNER_LABEL(__guest_exit_panic, SYM_L_GLOBAL)

        // If the hyp context is loaded, go straight to hyp_panic
        get_loaded_vcpu x0, x1
-       cbz     x0, hyp_panic
+       cbnz    x0, 1f
+       b       hyp_panic

+1:
        // The hyp context is saved so make sure it is restored to allow
        // hyp_panic to run at hyp and, subsequently, panic to run in the host.
        // This makes use of __guest_exit to avoid duplication but sets the
@@ -94,7 +96,7 @@ SYM_INNER_LABEL(__guest_exit_panic, SYM_L_GLOBAL)
        // current state is saved to the guest context but it will only be
        // accurate if the guest had been completely restored.
        adr_this_cpu x0, kvm_hyp_ctxt, x1
-       adr     x1, hyp_panic
+       adr_l   x1, hyp_panic
        str     x1, [x0, #CPU_XREG_OFFSET(30)]

        get_vcpu_ptr    x1, x0
But when I say work, I mean this fixes the allmodconfig build with
LTO, and my kernel boots at EL2. I don't actually have a way to
properly test KVM on arm64. If nobody sees obvious issues here, I can
send a proper patch a bit later.
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        // The hyp context is saved so make sure it is restored to allow
        // hyp_panic to run at hyp and, subsequently, panic to run in the host.
        // This makes use of __guest_exit to avoid duplication but sets the
@@ -94,7 +96,7 @@ SYM_INNER_LABEL(__guest_exit_panic, SYM_L_GLOBAL)
        // current state is saved to the guest context but it will only be
        // accurate if the guest had been completely restored.
        adr_this_cpu x0, kvm_hyp_ctxt, x1
-       adr     x1, hyp_panic
+       adr_l   x1, hyp_panic
        str     x1, [x0, #CPU_XREG_OFFSET(30)]

        get_vcpu_ptr    x1, x0
which is completely untested. I wouldn't be surprised if there were
more of these somewhere.
A quick grep gives me

$ objdump -r vmlinux.o |grep BR19
000000000005b6e0 R_AARCH64_CONDBR19  hyp_panic
0000000000418e08 R_AARCH64_CONDBR19  __memcpy
0000000000418e14 R_AARCH64_CONDBR19  __memcpy
These two are in __memmove. This shouldn't be an issue, at least with LTO.
0000000000003818 R_AARCH64_CONDBR19  __kvm_nvhe___guest_exit_panic
0000000000003898 R_AARCH64_CONDBR19  __kvm_nvhe___guest_exit_panic
0000000000003918 R_AARCH64_CONDBR19  __kvm_nvhe___guest_exit_panic
0000000000003998 R_AARCH64_CONDBR19  __kvm_nvhe___guest_exit_panic
0000000000003a18 R_AARCH64_CONDBR19  __kvm_nvhe___guest_exit_panic
0000000000003a98 R_AARCH64_CONDBR19  __kvm_nvhe___guest_exit_panic
0000000000003b18 R_AARCH64_CONDBR19  __kvm_nvhe___guest_exit_panic
0000000000003b98 R_AARCH64_CONDBR19  __kvm_nvhe___guest_exit_panic
0000000000003c10 R_AARCH64_CONDBR19  __kvm_nvhe___host_exit
0000000000003c1c R_AARCH64_CONDBR19  __kvm_nvhe___host_exit
00000000000064f0 R_AARCH64_CONDBR19  __kvm_nvhe_hyp_panic
000000000000078c R_AARCH64_CONDBR19  __kvm_nvhe___kvm_handle_stub_hvc
It looks like all the nvhe code is linked together into kvm_nvhe.o, so
I don't think these will cause problems either.

Sami

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