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author | Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> | 2019-05-16 00:41:43 +0300 |
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committer | Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> | 2019-05-16 00:41:43 +0300 |
commit | dd53f6102c30a774e0db8e55d49017a38060f6f6 (patch) | |
tree | 82ac5f5dcd56225c70516d82a1612439e8d73669 /Documentation | |
parent | 59c5c58c5b93285753d5c1de34d2e00039c27bc0 (diff) | |
parent | 9eecfc22e0bfc7a4c8ca007f083f0ae492d6e891 (diff) | |
download | linux-dd53f6102c30a774e0db8e55d49017a38060f6f6.tar.xz |
Merge tag 'kvmarm-for-v5.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvmarm/kvmarm into HEAD
KVM/arm updates for 5.2
- guest SVE support
- guest Pointer Authentication support
- Better discrimination of perf counters between host and guests
Conflicts:
include/uapi/linux/kvm.h
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/arm64/perf.txt | 85 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/arm64/pointer-authentication.txt | 22 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt | 178 |
3 files changed, 281 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/perf.txt b/Documentation/arm64/perf.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..0d6a7d87d49e --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/arm64/perf.txt @@ -0,0 +1,85 @@ +Perf Event Attributes +===================== + +Author: Andrew Murray <andrew.murray@arm.com> +Date: 2019-03-06 + +exclude_user +------------ + +This attribute excludes userspace. + +Userspace always runs at EL0 and thus this attribute will exclude EL0. + + +exclude_kernel +-------------- + +This attribute excludes the kernel. + +The kernel runs at EL2 with VHE and EL1 without. Guest kernels always run +at EL1. + +For the host this attribute will exclude EL1 and additionally EL2 on a VHE +system. + +For the guest this attribute will exclude EL1. Please note that EL2 is +never counted within a guest. + + +exclude_hv +---------- + +This attribute excludes the hypervisor. + +For a VHE host this attribute is ignored as we consider the host kernel to +be the hypervisor. + +For a non-VHE host this attribute will exclude EL2 as we consider the +hypervisor to be any code that runs at EL2 which is predominantly used for +guest/host transitions. + +For the guest this attribute has no effect. Please note that EL2 is +never counted within a guest. + + +exclude_host / exclude_guest +---------------------------- + +These attributes exclude the KVM host and guest, respectively. + +The KVM host may run at EL0 (userspace), EL1 (non-VHE kernel) and EL2 (VHE +kernel or non-VHE hypervisor). + +The KVM guest may run at EL0 (userspace) and EL1 (kernel). + +Due to the overlapping exception levels between host and guests we cannot +exclusively rely on the PMU's hardware exception filtering - therefore we +must enable/disable counting on the entry and exit to the guest. This is +performed differently on VHE and non-VHE systems. + +For non-VHE systems we exclude EL2 for exclude_host - upon entering and +exiting the guest we disable/enable the event as appropriate based on the +exclude_host and exclude_guest attributes. + +For VHE systems we exclude EL1 for exclude_guest and exclude both EL0,EL2 +for exclude_host. Upon entering and exiting the guest we modify the event +to include/exclude EL0 as appropriate based on the exclude_host and +exclude_guest attributes. + +The statements above also apply when these attributes are used within a +non-VHE guest however please note that EL2 is never counted within a guest. + + +Accuracy +-------- + +On non-VHE hosts we enable/disable counters on the entry/exit of host/guest +transition at EL2 - however there is a period of time between +enabling/disabling the counters and entering/exiting the guest. We are +able to eliminate counters counting host events on the boundaries of guest +entry/exit when counting guest events by filtering out EL2 for +exclude_host. However when using !exclude_hv there is a small blackout +window at the guest entry/exit where host events are not captured. + +On VHE systems there are no blackout windows. diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/pointer-authentication.txt b/Documentation/arm64/pointer-authentication.txt index 5baca42ba146..fc71b33de87e 100644 --- a/Documentation/arm64/pointer-authentication.txt +++ b/Documentation/arm64/pointer-authentication.txt @@ -87,7 +87,21 @@ used to get and set the keys for a thread. Virtualization -------------- -Pointer authentication is not currently supported in KVM guests. KVM -will mask the feature bits from ID_AA64ISAR1_EL1, and attempted use of -the feature will result in an UNDEFINED exception being injected into -the guest. +Pointer authentication is enabled in KVM guest when each virtual cpu is +initialised by passing flags KVM_ARM_VCPU_PTRAUTH_[ADDRESS/GENERIC] and +requesting these two separate cpu features to be enabled. The current KVM +guest implementation works by enabling both features together, so both +these userspace flags are checked before enabling pointer authentication. +The separate userspace flag will allow to have no userspace ABI changes +if support is added in the future to allow these two features to be +enabled independently of one another. + +As Arm Architecture specifies that Pointer Authentication feature is +implemented along with the VHE feature so KVM arm64 ptrauth code relies +on VHE mode to be present. + +Additionally, when these vcpu feature flags are not set then KVM will +filter out the Pointer Authentication system key registers from +KVM_GET/SET_REG_* ioctls and mask those features from cpufeature ID +register. Any attempt to use the Pointer Authentication instructions will +result in an UNDEFINED exception being injected into the guest. diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt index 8ffd9beb931b..73a501eb9291 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt @@ -1883,6 +1883,12 @@ Architectures: all Type: vcpu ioctl Parameters: struct kvm_one_reg (in) Returns: 0 on success, negative value on failure +Errors: + ENOENT: no such register + EINVAL: invalid register ID, or no such register + EPERM: (arm64) register access not allowed before vcpu finalization +(These error codes are indicative only: do not rely on a specific error +code being returned in a specific situation.) struct kvm_one_reg { __u64 id; @@ -2120,6 +2126,37 @@ contains elements ranging from 32 to 128 bits. The index is a 32bit value in the kvm_regs structure seen as a 32bit array. 0x60x0 0000 0010 <index into the kvm_regs struct:16> +Specifically: + Encoding Register Bits kvm_regs member +---------------------------------------------------------------- + 0x6030 0000 0010 0000 X0 64 regs.regs[0] + 0x6030 0000 0010 0002 X1 64 regs.regs[1] + ... + 0x6030 0000 0010 003c X30 64 regs.regs[30] + 0x6030 0000 0010 003e SP 64 regs.sp + 0x6030 0000 0010 0040 PC 64 regs.pc + 0x6030 0000 0010 0042 PSTATE 64 regs.pstate + 0x6030 0000 0010 0044 SP_EL1 64 sp_el1 + 0x6030 0000 0010 0046 ELR_EL1 64 elr_el1 + 0x6030 0000 0010 0048 SPSR_EL1 64 spsr[KVM_SPSR_EL1] (alias SPSR_SVC) + 0x6030 0000 0010 004a SPSR_ABT 64 spsr[KVM_SPSR_ABT] + 0x6030 0000 0010 004c SPSR_UND 64 spsr[KVM_SPSR_UND] + 0x6030 0000 0010 004e SPSR_IRQ 64 spsr[KVM_SPSR_IRQ] + 0x6060 0000 0010 0050 SPSR_FIQ 64 spsr[KVM_SPSR_FIQ] + 0x6040 0000 0010 0054 V0 128 fp_regs.vregs[0] (*) + 0x6040 0000 0010 0058 V1 128 fp_regs.vregs[1] (*) + ... + 0x6040 0000 0010 00d0 V31 128 fp_regs.vregs[31] (*) + 0x6020 0000 0010 00d4 FPSR 32 fp_regs.fpsr + 0x6020 0000 0010 00d5 FPCR 32 fp_regs.fpcr + +(*) These encodings are not accepted for SVE-enabled vcpus. See + KVM_ARM_VCPU_INIT. + + The equivalent register content can be accessed via bits [127:0] of + the corresponding SVE Zn registers instead for vcpus that have SVE + enabled (see below). + arm64 CCSIDR registers are demultiplexed by CSSELR value: 0x6020 0000 0011 00 <csselr:8> @@ -2129,6 +2166,64 @@ arm64 system registers have the following id bit patterns: arm64 firmware pseudo-registers have the following bit pattern: 0x6030 0000 0014 <regno:16> +arm64 SVE registers have the following bit patterns: + 0x6080 0000 0015 00 <n:5> <slice:5> Zn bits[2048*slice + 2047 : 2048*slice] + 0x6050 0000 0015 04 <n:4> <slice:5> Pn bits[256*slice + 255 : 256*slice] + 0x6050 0000 0015 060 <slice:5> FFR bits[256*slice + 255 : 256*slice] + 0x6060 0000 0015 ffff KVM_REG_ARM64_SVE_VLS pseudo-register + +Access to register IDs where 2048 * slice >= 128 * max_vq will fail with +ENOENT. max_vq is the vcpu's maximum supported vector length in 128-bit +quadwords: see (**) below. + +These registers are only accessible on vcpus for which SVE is enabled. +See KVM_ARM_VCPU_INIT for details. + +In addition, except for KVM_REG_ARM64_SVE_VLS, these registers are not +accessible until the vcpu's SVE configuration has been finalized +using KVM_ARM_VCPU_FINALIZE(KVM_ARM_VCPU_SVE). See KVM_ARM_VCPU_INIT +and KVM_ARM_VCPU_FINALIZE for more information about this procedure. + +KVM_REG_ARM64_SVE_VLS is a pseudo-register that allows the set of vector +lengths supported by the vcpu to be discovered and configured by +userspace. When transferred to or from user memory via KVM_GET_ONE_REG +or KVM_SET_ONE_REG, the value of this register is of type +__u64[KVM_ARM64_SVE_VLS_WORDS], and encodes the set of vector lengths as +follows: + +__u64 vector_lengths[KVM_ARM64_SVE_VLS_WORDS]; + +if (vq >= SVE_VQ_MIN && vq <= SVE_VQ_MAX && + ((vector_lengths[(vq - KVM_ARM64_SVE_VQ_MIN) / 64] >> + ((vq - KVM_ARM64_SVE_VQ_MIN) % 64)) & 1)) + /* Vector length vq * 16 bytes supported */ +else + /* Vector length vq * 16 bytes not supported */ + +(**) The maximum value vq for which the above condition is true is +max_vq. This is the maximum vector length available to the guest on +this vcpu, and determines which register slices are visible through +this ioctl interface. + +(See Documentation/arm64/sve.txt for an explanation of the "vq" +nomenclature.) + +KVM_REG_ARM64_SVE_VLS is only accessible after KVM_ARM_VCPU_INIT. +KVM_ARM_VCPU_INIT initialises it to the best set of vector lengths that +the host supports. + +Userspace may subsequently modify it if desired until the vcpu's SVE +configuration is finalized using KVM_ARM_VCPU_FINALIZE(KVM_ARM_VCPU_SVE). + +Apart from simply removing all vector lengths from the host set that +exceed some value, support for arbitrarily chosen sets of vector lengths +is hardware-dependent and may not be available. Attempting to configure +an invalid set of vector lengths via KVM_SET_ONE_REG will fail with +EINVAL. + +After the vcpu's SVE configuration is finalized, further attempts to +write this register will fail with EPERM. + MIPS registers are mapped using the lower 32 bits. The upper 16 of that is the register group type: @@ -2181,6 +2276,12 @@ Architectures: all Type: vcpu ioctl Parameters: struct kvm_one_reg (in and out) Returns: 0 on success, negative value on failure +Errors include: + ENOENT: no such register + EINVAL: invalid register ID, or no such register + EPERM: (arm64) register access not allowed before vcpu finalization +(These error codes are indicative only: do not rely on a specific error +code being returned in a specific situation.) This ioctl allows to receive the value of a single register implemented in a vcpu. The register to read is indicated by the "id" field of the @@ -2673,6 +2774,49 @@ Possible features: - KVM_ARM_VCPU_PMU_V3: Emulate PMUv3 for the CPU. Depends on KVM_CAP_ARM_PMU_V3. + - KVM_ARM_VCPU_PTRAUTH_ADDRESS: Enables Address Pointer authentication + for arm64 only. + Depends on KVM_CAP_ARM_PTRAUTH_ADDRESS. + If KVM_CAP_ARM_PTRAUTH_ADDRESS and KVM_CAP_ARM_PTRAUTH_GENERIC are + both present, then both KVM_ARM_VCPU_PTRAUTH_ADDRESS and + KVM_ARM_VCPU_PTRAUTH_GENERIC must be requested or neither must be + requested. + + - KVM_ARM_VCPU_PTRAUTH_GENERIC: Enables Generic Pointer authentication + for arm64 only. + Depends on KVM_CAP_ARM_PTRAUTH_GENERIC. + If KVM_CAP_ARM_PTRAUTH_ADDRESS and KVM_CAP_ARM_PTRAUTH_GENERIC are + both present, then both KVM_ARM_VCPU_PTRAUTH_ADDRESS and + KVM_ARM_VCPU_PTRAUTH_GENERIC must be requested or neither must be + requested. + + - KVM_ARM_VCPU_SVE: Enables SVE for the CPU (arm64 only). + Depends on KVM_CAP_ARM_SVE. + Requires KVM_ARM_VCPU_FINALIZE(KVM_ARM_VCPU_SVE): + + * After KVM_ARM_VCPU_INIT: + + - KVM_REG_ARM64_SVE_VLS may be read using KVM_GET_ONE_REG: the + initial value of this pseudo-register indicates the best set of + vector lengths possible for a vcpu on this host. + + * Before KVM_ARM_VCPU_FINALIZE(KVM_ARM_VCPU_SVE): + + - KVM_RUN and KVM_GET_REG_LIST are not available; + + - KVM_GET_ONE_REG and KVM_SET_ONE_REG cannot be used to access + the scalable archietctural SVE registers + KVM_REG_ARM64_SVE_ZREG(), KVM_REG_ARM64_SVE_PREG() or + KVM_REG_ARM64_SVE_FFR; + + - KVM_REG_ARM64_SVE_VLS may optionally be written using + KVM_SET_ONE_REG, to modify the set of vector lengths available + for the vcpu. + + * After KVM_ARM_VCPU_FINALIZE(KVM_ARM_VCPU_SVE): + + - the KVM_REG_ARM64_SVE_VLS pseudo-register is immutable, and can + no longer be written using KVM_SET_ONE_REG. 4.83 KVM_ARM_PREFERRED_TARGET @@ -3887,6 +4031,40 @@ number of valid entries in the 'entries' array, which is then filled. 'index' and 'flags' fields in 'struct kvm_cpuid_entry2' are currently reserved, userspace should not expect to get any particular value there. +4.119 KVM_ARM_VCPU_FINALIZE + +Architectures: arm, arm64 +Type: vcpu ioctl +Parameters: int feature (in) +Returns: 0 on success, -1 on error +Errors: + EPERM: feature not enabled, needs configuration, or already finalized + EINVAL: feature unknown or not present + +Recognised values for feature: + arm64 KVM_ARM_VCPU_SVE (requires KVM_CAP_ARM_SVE) + +Finalizes the configuration of the specified vcpu feature. + +The vcpu must already have been initialised, enabling the affected feature, by +means of a successful KVM_ARM_VCPU_INIT call with the appropriate flag set in +features[]. + +For affected vcpu features, this is a mandatory step that must be performed +before the vcpu is fully usable. + +Between KVM_ARM_VCPU_INIT and KVM_ARM_VCPU_FINALIZE, the feature may be +configured by use of ioctls such as KVM_SET_ONE_REG. The exact configuration +that should be performaned and how to do it are feature-dependent. + +Other calls that depend on a particular feature being finalized, such as +KVM_RUN, KVM_GET_REG_LIST, KVM_GET_ONE_REG and KVM_SET_ONE_REG, will fail with +-EPERM unless the feature has already been finalized by means of a +KVM_ARM_VCPU_FINALIZE call. + +See KVM_ARM_VCPU_INIT for details of vcpu features that require finalization +using this ioctl. + 5. The kvm_run structure ------------------------ |