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Marc Zyngier 5a677ce044 ARM: KVM: switch to a dual-step HYP init code
Our HYP init code suffers from two major design issues:
- it cannot support CPU hotplug, as we tear down the idmap very early
- it cannot perform a TLB invalidation when switching from init to
  runtime mappings, as pages are manipulated from PL1 exclusively

The hotplug problem mandates that we keep two sets of page tables
(boot and runtime). The TLB problem mandates that we're able to
transition from one PGD to another while in HYP, invalidating the TLBs
in the process.

To be able to do this, we need to share a page between the two page
tables. A page that will have the same VA in both configurations. All we
need is a VA that has the following properties:
- This VA can't be used to represent a kernel mapping.
- This VA will not conflict with the physical address of the kernel text

The vectors page seems to satisfy this requirement:
- The kernel never maps anything else there
- The kernel text being copied at the beginning of the physical memory,
  it is unlikely to use the last 64kB (I doubt we'll ever support KVM
  on a system with something like 4MB of RAM, but patches are very
  welcome).

Let's call this VA the trampoline VA.

Now, we map our init page at 3 locations:
- idmap in the boot pgd
- trampoline VA in the boot pgd
- trampoline VA in the runtime pgd

The init scenario is now the following:
- We jump in HYP with four parameters: boot HYP pgd, runtime HYP pgd,
  runtime stack, runtime vectors
- Enable the MMU with the boot pgd
- Jump to a target into the trampoline page (remember, this is the same
  physical page!)
- Now switch to the runtime pgd (same VA, and still the same physical
  page!)
- Invalidate TLBs
- Set stack and vectors
- Profit! (or eret, if you only care about the code).

Note that we keep the boot mapping permanently (it is not strictly an
idmap anymore) to allow for CPU hotplug in later patches.

Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <cdall@cs.columbia.edu>
2013-04-28 22:23:10 -07:00
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alpha Select VIRT_TO_BUS directly where needed 2013-03-12 11:16:40 -07:00
arc ARC: split elf.h into uapi and export it for userspace 2013-02-27 20:00:26 +05:30
arm ARM: KVM: switch to a dual-step HYP init code 2013-04-28 22:23:10 -07:00
arm64 arm64: Kconfig.debug: Remove unused CONFIG_DEBUG_ERRORS 2013-03-19 16:19:19 +00:00
avr32 Select VIRT_TO_BUS directly where needed 2013-03-12 11:16:40 -07:00
blackfin Select VIRT_TO_BUS directly where needed 2013-03-12 11:16:40 -07:00
c6x Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2013-02-26 20:16:07 -08:00
cris Select VIRT_TO_BUS directly where needed 2013-03-12 11:16:40 -07:00
frv Select VIRT_TO_BUS directly where needed 2013-03-12 11:16:40 -07:00
h8300 Select VIRT_TO_BUS directly where needed 2013-03-12 11:16:40 -07:00
hexagon Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2013-02-26 20:16:07 -08:00
ia64 kvm: Allow build-time configuration of KVM device assignment 2013-04-28 12:58:56 +03:00
m32r UAPI: fix endianness conditionals in M32R's asm/stat.h 2013-03-13 15:21:49 -07:00
m68k Select VIRT_TO_BUS directly where needed 2013-03-12 11:16:40 -07:00
metag metag: Inhibit NUMA balancing. 2013-03-04 10:29:19 +00:00
microblaze Select VIRT_TO_BUS directly where needed 2013-03-12 11:16:40 -07:00
mips Select VIRT_TO_BUS directly where needed 2013-03-12 11:16:40 -07:00
mn10300 Select VIRT_TO_BUS directly where needed 2013-03-12 11:16:40 -07:00
openrisc openrisc: remove HAVE_VIRT_TO_BUS 2013-03-13 06:12:39 +01:00
parisc Select VIRT_TO_BUS directly where needed 2013-03-12 11:16:40 -07:00
powerpc KVM: PPC: Book3S: Facilities to save/restore XICS presentation ctrler state 2013-04-26 20:27:34 +02:00
s390 KVM: s390: Enable KVM_CAP_NR_MEMSLOTS on s390 2013-04-02 16:14:53 +03:00
score Select VIRT_TO_BUS directly where needed 2013-03-12 11:16:40 -07:00
sh hlist: drop the node parameter from iterators 2013-02-27 19:10:24 -08:00
sparc Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc 2013-03-19 14:47:11 -07:00
tile Select VIRT_TO_BUS directly where needed 2013-03-12 11:16:40 -07:00
um um: Use tty_port in SIGWINCH handler 2013-03-11 10:08:04 +01:00
unicore32 Select VIRT_TO_BUS directly where needed 2013-03-12 11:16:40 -07:00
x86 KVM: nVMX: Skip PF interception check when queuing during nested run 2013-04-28 13:34:39 +03:00
xtensa Select VIRT_TO_BUS directly where needed 2013-03-12 11:16:40 -07:00
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Kconfig Select VIRT_TO_BUS directly where needed 2013-03-12 11:16:40 -07:00