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<title>KVM: arm/arm64: Reduce verbosity of KVM init log</title>
<updated>2018-03-14T18:29:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org</email>
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<published>2018-03-02T08:16:30+00:00</published>
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On my GICv3 system, the following is printed to the kernel log at boot:

   kvm [1]: 8-bit VMID
   kvm [1]: IDMAP page: d20e35000
   kvm [1]: HYP VA range: 800000000000:ffffffffffff
   kvm [1]: vgic-v2@2c020000
   kvm [1]: GIC system register CPU interface enabled
   kvm [1]: vgic interrupt IRQ1
   kvm [1]: virtual timer IRQ4
   kvm [1]: Hyp mode initialized successfully

The KVM IDMAP is a mapping of a statically allocated kernel structure,
and so printing its physical address leaks the physical placement of
the kernel when physical KASLR in effect. So change the kvm_info() to
kvm_debug() to remove it from the log output.

While at it, trim the output a bit more: IRQ numbers can be found in
/proc/interrupts, and the HYP VA and vgic-v2 lines are not highly
informational either.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;cdall@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
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On my GICv3 system, the following is printed to the kernel log at boot:

   kvm [1]: 8-bit VMID
   kvm [1]: IDMAP page: d20e35000
   kvm [1]: HYP VA range: 800000000000:ffffffffffff
   kvm [1]: vgic-v2@2c020000
   kvm [1]: GIC system register CPU interface enabled
   kvm [1]: vgic interrupt IRQ1
   kvm [1]: virtual timer IRQ4
   kvm [1]: Hyp mode initialized successfully

The KVM IDMAP is a mapping of a statically allocated kernel structure,
and so printing its physical address leaks the physical placement of
the kernel when physical KASLR in effect. So change the kvm_info() to
kvm_debug() to remove it from the log output.

While at it, trim the output a bit more: IRQ numbers can be found in
/proc/interrupts, and the HYP VA and vgic-v2 lines are not highly
informational either.

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;cdall@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: arm/arm64: Reset mapped IRQs on VM reset</title>
<updated>2018-03-14T18:29:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoffer Dall</name>
<email>cdall@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-05T10:36:38+00:00</published>
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We currently don't allow resetting mapped IRQs from userspace, because
their state is controlled by the hardware.  But we do need to reset the
state when the VM is reset, so we provide a function for the 'owner' of
the mapped interrupt to reset the interrupt state.

Currently only the timer uses mapped interrupts, so we call this
function from the timer reset logic.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 4c60e360d6df ("KVM: arm/arm64: Provide a get_input_level for the arch timer")
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;cdall@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
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We currently don't allow resetting mapped IRQs from userspace, because
their state is controlled by the hardware.  But we do need to reset the
state when the VM is reset, so we provide a function for the 'owner' of
the mapped interrupt to reset the interrupt state.

Currently only the timer uses mapped interrupts, so we call this
function from the timer reset logic.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 4c60e360d6df ("KVM: arm/arm64: Provide a get_input_level for the arch timer")
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;cdall@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: arm/arm64: Fix arch timers with userspace irqchips</title>
<updated>2018-02-15T19:58:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoffer Dall</name>
<email>christoffer.dall@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-26T15:06:51+00:00</published>
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When introducing support for irqchip in userspace we needed a way to
mask the timer signal to prevent the guest continuously exiting due to a
screaming timer.

We did this by disabling the corresponding percpu interrupt on the
host interrupt controller, because we cannot rely on the host system
having a GIC, and therefore cannot make any assumptions about having an
active state to hide the timer signal.

Unfortunately, when introducing this feature, it became entirely
possible that a VCPU which belongs to a VM that has a userspace irqchip
can disable the vtimer irq on the host on some physical CPU, and then go
away without ever enabling the vtimer irq on that physical CPU again.

This means that using irqchips in userspace on a system that also
supports running VMs with an in-kernel GIC can prevent forward progress
from in-kernel GIC VMs.

Later on, when we started taking virtual timer interrupts in the arch
timer code, we would also leave this timer state active for userspace
irqchip VMs, because we leave it up to a VGIC-enabled guest to
deactivate the hardware IRQ using the HW bit in the LR.

Both issues are solved by only using the enable/disable trick on systems
that do not have a host GIC which supports the active state, because all
VMs on such systems must use irqchips in userspace.  Systems that have a
working GIC with support for an active state use the active state to
mask the timer signal for both userspace and in-kernel irqchips.

Cc: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v4.12+
Fixes: d9e139778376 ("KVM: arm/arm64: Support arch timers with a userspace gic")
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
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When introducing support for irqchip in userspace we needed a way to
mask the timer signal to prevent the guest continuously exiting due to a
screaming timer.

We did this by disabling the corresponding percpu interrupt on the
host interrupt controller, because we cannot rely on the host system
having a GIC, and therefore cannot make any assumptions about having an
active state to hide the timer signal.

Unfortunately, when introducing this feature, it became entirely
possible that a VCPU which belongs to a VM that has a userspace irqchip
can disable the vtimer irq on the host on some physical CPU, and then go
away without ever enabling the vtimer irq on that physical CPU again.

This means that using irqchips in userspace on a system that also
supports running VMs with an in-kernel GIC can prevent forward progress
from in-kernel GIC VMs.

Later on, when we started taking virtual timer interrupts in the arch
timer code, we would also leave this timer state active for userspace
irqchip VMs, because we leave it up to a VGIC-enabled guest to
deactivate the hardware IRQ using the HW bit in the LR.

Both issues are solved by only using the enable/disable trick on systems
that do not have a host GIC which supports the active state, because all
VMs on such systems must use irqchips in userspace.  Systems that have a
working GIC with support for an active state use the active state to
mask the timer signal for both userspace and in-kernel irqchips.

Cc: Alexander Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v4.12+
Fixes: d9e139778376 ("KVM: arm/arm64: Support arch timers with a userspace gic")
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86/hyperv' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2018-02-01T14:04:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Radim Krčmář</name>
<email>rkrcmar@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-01T14:04:17+00:00</published>
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Topic branch for stable KVM clockource under Hyper-V.

Thanks to Christoffer Dall for resolving the ARM conflict.
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Topic branch for stable KVM clockource under Hyper-V.

Thanks to Christoffer Dall for resolving the ARM conflict.
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: arm/arm64: Fixup userspace irqchip static key optimization</title>
<updated>2018-01-31T09:10:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoffer Dall</name>
<email>christoffer.dall@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-26T15:20:22+00:00</published>
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When I introduced a static key to avoid work in the critical path for
userspace irqchips which is very rarely used, I accidentally messed up
my logic and used &amp;&amp; where I should have used ||, because the point was
to short-circuit the evaluation in case userspace irqchips weren't even
in use.

This fixes an issue when running in-kernel irqchip VMs alongside
userspace irqchip VMs.

Acked-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Fixes: c44c232ee2d3 ("KVM: arm/arm64: Avoid work when userspace iqchips are not used")
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
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When I introduced a static key to avoid work in the critical path for
userspace irqchips which is very rarely used, I accidentally messed up
my logic and used &amp;&amp; where I should have used ||, because the point was
to short-circuit the evaluation in case userspace irqchips weren't even
in use.

This fixes an issue when running in-kernel irqchip VMs alongside
userspace irqchip VMs.

Acked-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Fixes: c44c232ee2d3 ("KVM: arm/arm64: Avoid work when userspace iqchips are not used")
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: arm/arm64: Fix incorrect timer_is_pending logic</title>
<updated>2018-01-31T09:10:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoffer Dall</name>
<email>christoffer.dall@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-25T13:20:19+00:00</published>
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After the recently introduced support for level-triggered mapped
interrupt, I accidentally left the VCPU thread busily going back and
forward between the guest and the hypervisor whenever the guest was
blocking, because I would always incorrectly report that a timer
interrupt was pending.

This is because the timer-&gt;irq.level field is not valid for mapped
interrupts, where we offload the level state to the hardware, and as a
result this field is always true.

Luckily the problem can be relatively easily solved by not checking the
cached signal state of either timer in kvm_timer_should_fire() but
instead compute the timer state on the fly, which we do already if the
cached signal state wasn't high.  In fact, the only reason for checking
the cached signal state was a tiny optimization which would only be
potentially faster when the polling loop detects a pending timer
interrupt, which is quite unlikely.

Instead of duplicating the logic from kvm_arch_timer_handler(), we
enlighten kvm_timer_should_fire() to report something valid when the
timer state is loaded onto the hardware.  We can then call this from
kvm_arch_timer_handler() as well and avoid the call to
__timer_snapshot_state() in kvm_arch_timer_get_input_level().

Reported-by: Tomasz Nowicki &lt;tn@semihalf.com&gt;
Tested-by: Tomasz Nowicki &lt;tn@semihalf.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
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After the recently introduced support for level-triggered mapped
interrupt, I accidentally left the VCPU thread busily going back and
forward between the guest and the hypervisor whenever the guest was
blocking, because I would always incorrectly report that a timer
interrupt was pending.

This is because the timer-&gt;irq.level field is not valid for mapped
interrupts, where we offload the level state to the hardware, and as a
result this field is always true.

Luckily the problem can be relatively easily solved by not checking the
cached signal state of either timer in kvm_timer_should_fire() but
instead compute the timer state on the fly, which we do already if the
cached signal state wasn't high.  In fact, the only reason for checking
the cached signal state was a tiny optimization which would only be
potentially faster when the polling loop detects a pending timer
interrupt, which is quite unlikely.

Instead of duplicating the logic from kvm_arch_timer_handler(), we
enlighten kvm_timer_should_fire() to report something valid when the
timer state is loaded onto the hardware.  We can then call this from
kvm_arch_timer_handler() as well and avoid the call to
__timer_snapshot_state() in kvm_arch_timer_get_input_level().

Reported-by: Tomasz Nowicki &lt;tn@semihalf.com&gt;
Tested-by: Tomasz Nowicki &lt;tn@semihalf.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: arm/arm64: Avoid work when userspace iqchips are not used</title>
<updated>2018-01-02T09:05:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoffer Dall</name>
<email>christoffer.dall@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-10-27T17:57:51+00:00</published>
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We currently check if the VM has a userspace irqchip in several places
along the critical path, and if so, we do some work which is only
required for having an irqchip in userspace.  This is unfortunate, as we
could avoid doing any work entirely, if we didn't have to support
irqchip in userspace.

Realizing the userspace irqchip on ARM is mostly a developer or hobby
feature, and is unlikely to be used in servers or other scenarios where
performance is a priority, we can use a refcounted static key to only
check the irqchip configuration when we have at least one VM that uses
an irqchip in userspace.

Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
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We currently check if the VM has a userspace irqchip in several places
along the critical path, and if so, we do some work which is only
required for having an irqchip in userspace.  This is unfortunate, as we
could avoid doing any work entirely, if we didn't have to support
irqchip in userspace.

Realizing the userspace irqchip on ARM is mostly a developer or hobby
feature, and is unlikely to be used in servers or other scenarios where
performance is a priority, we can use a refcounted static key to only
check the irqchip configuration when we have at least one VM that uses
an irqchip in userspace.

Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: arm/arm64: Provide a get_input_level for the arch timer</title>
<updated>2018-01-02T09:05:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoffer Dall</name>
<email>christoffer.dall@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-10-27T17:34:30+00:00</published>
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The VGIC can now support the life-cycle of mapped level-triggered
interrupts, and we no longer have to read back the timer state on every
exit from the VM if we had an asserted timer interrupt signal, because
the VGIC already knows if we hit the unlikely case where the guest
disables the timer without ACKing the virtual timer interrupt.

This means we rework a bit of the code to factor out the functionality
to snapshot the timer state from vtimer_save_state(), and we can reuse
this functionality in the sync path when we have an irqchip in
userspace, and also to support our implementation of the
get_input_level() function for the timer.

This change also means that we can no longer rely on the timer's view of
the interrupt line to set the active state, because we no longer
maintain this state for mapped interrupts when exiting from the guest.
Instead, we only set the active state if the virtual interrupt is
active, and otherwise we simply let the timer fire again and raise the
virtual interrupt from the ISR.

Reviewed-by: Eric Auger &lt;eric.auger@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
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The VGIC can now support the life-cycle of mapped level-triggered
interrupts, and we no longer have to read back the timer state on every
exit from the VM if we had an asserted timer interrupt signal, because
the VGIC already knows if we hit the unlikely case where the guest
disables the timer without ACKing the virtual timer interrupt.

This means we rework a bit of the code to factor out the functionality
to snapshot the timer state from vtimer_save_state(), and we can reuse
this functionality in the sync path when we have an irqchip in
userspace, and also to support our implementation of the
get_input_level() function for the timer.

This change also means that we can no longer rely on the timer's view of
the interrupt line to set the active state, because we no longer
maintain this state for mapped interrupts when exiting from the guest.
Instead, we only set the active state if the virtual interrupt is
active, and otherwise we simply let the timer fire again and raise the
virtual interrupt from the ISR.

Reviewed-by: Eric Auger &lt;eric.auger@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: arm/arm64: Support a vgic interrupt line level sample function</title>
<updated>2018-01-02T09:05:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoffer Dall</name>
<email>christoffer.dall@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-10-27T17:30:09+00:00</published>
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The GIC sometimes need to sample the physical line of a mapped
interrupt.  As we know this to be notoriously slow, provide a callback
function for devices (such as the timer) which can do this much faster
than talking to the distributor, for example by comparing a few
in-memory values.  Fall back to the good old method of poking the
physical GIC if no callback is provided.

Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Auger &lt;eric.auger@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
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The GIC sometimes need to sample the physical line of a mapped
interrupt.  As we know this to be notoriously slow, provide a callback
function for devices (such as the timer) which can do this much faster
than talking to the distributor, for example by comparing a few
in-memory values.  Fall back to the good old method of poking the
physical GIC if no callback is provided.

Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Auger &lt;eric.auger@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: arm/arm64: Don't cache the timer IRQ level</title>
<updated>2018-01-02T09:05:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoffer Dall</name>
<email>christoffer.dall@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-04T09:56:37+00:00</published>
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The timer logic was designed after a strict idea of modeling an
interrupt line level in software, meaning that only transitions in the
level need to be reported to the VGIC.  This works well for the timer,
because the arch timer code is in complete control of the device and can
track the transitions of the line.

However, as we are about to support using the HW bit in the VGIC not
just for the timer, but also for VFIO which cannot track transitions of
the interrupt line, we have to decide on an interface between the GIC
and other subsystems for level triggered mapped interrupts, which both
the timer and VFIO can use.

VFIO only sees an asserting transition of the physical interrupt line,
and tells the VGIC when that happens.  That means that part of the
interrupt flow is offloaded to the hardware.

To use the same interface for VFIO devices and the timer, we therefore
have to change the timer (we cannot change VFIO because it doesn't know
the details of the device it is assigning to a VM).

Luckily, changing the timer is simple, we just need to stop 'caching'
the line level, but instead let the VGIC know the state of the timer
every time there is a potential change in the line level, and when the
line level should be asserted from the timer ISR.  The VGIC can ignore
extra notifications using its validate mechanism.

Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andre Przywara &lt;andre.przywara@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Julien Thierry &lt;julien.thierry@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
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The timer logic was designed after a strict idea of modeling an
interrupt line level in software, meaning that only transitions in the
level need to be reported to the VGIC.  This works well for the timer,
because the arch timer code is in complete control of the device and can
track the transitions of the line.

However, as we are about to support using the HW bit in the VGIC not
just for the timer, but also for VFIO which cannot track transitions of
the interrupt line, we have to decide on an interface between the GIC
and other subsystems for level triggered mapped interrupts, which both
the timer and VFIO can use.

VFIO only sees an asserting transition of the physical interrupt line,
and tells the VGIC when that happens.  That means that part of the
interrupt flow is offloaded to the hardware.

To use the same interface for VFIO devices and the timer, we therefore
have to change the timer (we cannot change VFIO because it doesn't know
the details of the device it is assigning to a VM).

Luckily, changing the timer is simple, we just need to stop 'caching'
the line level, but instead let the VGIC know the state of the timer
every time there is a potential change in the line level, and when the
line level should be asserted from the timer ISR.  The VGIC can ignore
extra notifications using its validate mechanism.

Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andre Przywara &lt;andre.przywara@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Julien Thierry &lt;julien.thierry@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
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