From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-16.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,INCLUDES_CR_TRAILER,INCLUDES_PATCH, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_GIT autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98347C433E0 for ; Mon, 1 Mar 2021 14:27:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 680C464DA3 for ; Mon, 1 Mar 2021 14:27:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S236255AbhCAO1M (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Mar 2021 09:27:12 -0500 Received: from foss.arm.com ([217.140.110.172]:59112 "EHLO foss.arm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S235781AbhCAOZW (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Mar 2021 09:25:22 -0500 Received: from usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (unknown [10.121.207.14]) by usa-sjc-mx-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D1B61396; Mon, 1 Mar 2021 06:23:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from e112269-lin.arm.com (unknown [172.31.20.19]) by usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8D7D13F70D; Mon, 1 Mar 2021 06:23:48 -0800 (PST) From: Steven Price To: Catalin Marinas , Marc Zyngier , Will Deacon Cc: Steven Price , James Morse , Julien Thierry , Suzuki K Poulose , kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Dave Martin , Mark Rutland , Thomas Gleixner , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Juan Quintela , "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" , Richard Henderson , Peter Maydell , Haibo Xu , Andrew Jones Subject: [PATCH v9 6/6] KVM: arm64: Document MTE capability and ioctl Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2021 14:23:15 +0000 Message-Id: <20210301142315.30920-7-steven.price@arm.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.20.1 In-Reply-To: <20210301142315.30920-1-steven.price@arm.com> References: <20210301142315.30920-1-steven.price@arm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org A new capability (KVM_CAP_ARM_MTE) identifies that the kernel supports granting a guest access to the tags, and provides a mechanism for the VMM to enable it. A new ioctl (KVM_ARM_MTE_COPY_TAGS) provides a simple way for a VMM to access the tags of a guest without having to maintain a PROT_MTE mapping in userspace. The above capability gates access to the ioctl. Signed-off-by: Steven Price --- Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst index aed52b0fc16e..1406ea138127 100644 --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst @@ -4939,6 +4939,23 @@ KVM_XEN_VCPU_ATTR_TYPE_VCPU_TIME_INFO Allows Xen vCPU attributes to be read. For the structure and types, see KVM_XEN_VCPU_SET_ATTR above. +4.131 KVM_ARM_MTE_COPY_TAGS +--------------------------- + +:Capability: KVM_CAP_ARM_MTE +:Architectures: arm64 +:Type: vm ioctl +:Parameters: struct kvm_arm_copy_mte_tags +:Returns: 0 on success, < 0 on error + +Copies Memory Tagging Extension (MTE) tags to/from guest tag memory. The +starting address and length of guest memory must be ``PAGE_SIZE`` aligned. + +The size of the buffer to store the tags is ``(length / MTE_GRANULE_SIZE)`` +bytes (i.e. 1/16th of the corresponding size). Each byte contains a single tag +value. This matches the format of ``PTRACE_PEEKMTETAGS`` and +``PTRACE_POKEMTETAGS``. + 5. The kvm_run structure ======================== @@ -6227,6 +6244,25 @@ KVM_RUN_BUS_LOCK flag is used to distinguish between them. This capability can be used to check / enable 2nd DAWR feature provided by POWER10 processor. +7.23 KVM_CAP_ARM_MTE +-------------------- + +:Architectures: arm64 +:Parameters: none + +This capability indicates that KVM (and the hardware) supports exposing the +Memory Tagging Extensions (MTE) to the guest. It must also be enabled by the +VMM before the guest will be granted access. + +When enabled the guest is able to access tags associated with any memory given +to the guest. KVM will ensure that the pages are flagged ``PG_mte_tagged`` so +that the tags are maintained during swap or hibernation of the host, however +the VMM needs to manually save/restore the tags as appropriate if the VM is +migrated. + +When enabled the VMM may make use of the ``KVM_ARM_MTE_COPY_TAGS`` ioctl to +perform a bulk copy of tags to/from the guest + 8. Other capabilities. ====================== @@ -6716,3 +6752,4 @@ KVM_XEN_HVM_SET_ATTR, KVM_XEN_HVM_GET_ATTR, KVM_XEN_VCPU_SET_ATTR and KVM_XEN_VCPU_GET_ATTR ioctls, as well as the delivery of exception vectors for event channel upcalls when the evtchn_upcall_pending field of a vcpu's vcpu_info is set. + -- 2.20.1