Re: [PATCH v3 kvmtool 06/13] arm/arm64: Fail if RAM size is too large for 32-bit guests
From: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Date: 2022-06-01 13:44:16
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On Wed, 25 May 2022 12:23:38 +0100 Alexandru Elisei [off-list ref] wrote:
For 64-bit guests, kvmtool exists with an error in kvm__get_vm_type() if the memory size is larger than what KVM supports. For 32-bit guests, the RAM size is silently rounded down to ARM_LOMAP_MAX_MEMORY in kvm__arch_init(). Be consistent and exit with an error when the user has configured the wrong RAM size for 32-bit guests. Signed-off-by: Alexandru Elisei <redacted>
This patch looks fine, as it improves the situation and maintains the current support level, but it turns out that the AArch32 memory limitation is bogus: With LPAE (which is mandatory for any system supporting KVM), there is no reason we can't have memory beyond 4GB of guest PA. In fact, after removing this check, I managed to boot a 32GB AArch32 guest just fine (on a Juno), and a 2919MB guest on an ARMv7 box. It might be useful to lift this limit, as this allows easy testing of the arm(32) kernel's highmem support, but this would be a separate patch, I guess. Reviewed-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com> Cheers, Andre
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
--- arm/aarch32/kvm.c | 4 ++++ arm/aarch64/kvm.c | 5 +++++ arm/kvm.c | 2 +- 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)diff --git a/arm/aarch32/kvm.c b/arm/aarch32/kvm.c index ae33ac92479a..9d68d7a15ee2 100644 --- a/arm/aarch32/kvm.c +++ b/arm/aarch32/kvm.c@@ -2,4 +2,8 @@ void kvm__arch_validate_cfg(struct kvm *kvm) { + if (kvm->cfg.ram_size > ARM_LOMAP_MAX_MEMORY) { + die("RAM size 0x%llx exceeds maximum allowed 0x%llx", + kvm->cfg.ram_size, ARM_LOMAP_MAX_MEMORY); + } }diff --git a/arm/aarch64/kvm.c b/arm/aarch64/kvm.c index ca348f118a56..2134528bf7f2 100644 --- a/arm/aarch64/kvm.c +++ b/arm/aarch64/kvm.c@@ -39,6 +39,11 @@ int vcpu_affinity_parser(const struct option *opt, const char *arg, int unset) void kvm__arch_validate_cfg(struct kvm *kvm) { + if (kvm->cfg.arch.aarch32_guest && + kvm->cfg.ram_size > ARM_LOMAP_MAX_MEMORY) { + die("RAM size 0x%llx exceeds maximum allowed 0x%llx", + kvm->cfg.ram_size, ARM_LOMAP_MAX_MEMORY); + } } /*diff --git a/arm/kvm.c b/arm/kvm.c index c5913000e1ed..af0feae495d7 100644 --- a/arm/kvm.c +++ b/arm/kvm.c@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ void kvm__arch_init(struct kvm *kvm, const char *hugetlbfs_path, u64 ram_size) * If using THP, then our minimal alignment becomes 2M. * 2M trumps 64K, so let's go with that. */ - kvm->ram_size = min(ram_size, (u64)ARM_MAX_MEMORY(kvm)); + kvm->ram_size = ram_size; kvm->arch.ram_alloc_size = kvm->ram_size + SZ_2M; kvm->arch.ram_alloc_start = mmap_anon_or_hugetlbfs(kvm, hugetlbfs_path, kvm->arch.ram_alloc_size);
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