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| author | Christoffer Dall | 2019-10-11 13:07:06 +0200 |
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| committer | Marc Zyngier | 2019-10-21 18:59:51 +0100 |
| commit | da345174ceca052469e4775e4ae263b5f27a9355 (patch) | |
| tree | ff6d547063fac8b6e847edd70a987dfbb965d613 /Documentation/virt | |
| parent | c726200dd106d4c58a281eea7159b8ba28a4ab34 (diff) | |
KVM: arm/arm64: Allow user injection of external data aborts
In some scenarios, such as buggy guest or incorrect configuration of the
VMM and firmware description data, userspace will detect a memory access
to a portion of the IPA, which is not mapped to any MMIO region.
For this purpose, the appropriate action is to inject an external abort
to the guest. The kernel already has functionality to inject an
external abort, but we need to wire up a signal from user space that
lets user space tell the kernel to do this.
It turns out, we already have the set event functionality which we can
perfectly reuse for this.
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/virt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virt/kvm/api.txt | 22 |
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.txt index 7403f15657c2..bd29d44af32b 100644 --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.txt +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.txt @@ -1002,12 +1002,18 @@ Specifying exception.has_esr on a system that does not support it will return -EINVAL. Setting anything other than the lower 24bits of exception.serror_esr will return -EINVAL. +It is not possible to read back a pending external abort (injected via +KVM_SET_VCPU_EVENTS or otherwise) because such an exception is always delivered +directly to the virtual CPU). + + struct kvm_vcpu_events { struct { __u8 serror_pending; __u8 serror_has_esr; + __u8 ext_dabt_pending; /* Align it to 8 bytes */ - __u8 pad[6]; + __u8 pad[5]; __u64 serror_esr; } exception; __u32 reserved[12]; @@ -1051,9 +1057,23 @@ contain a valid state and shall be written into the VCPU. ARM/ARM64: +User space may need to inject several types of events to the guest. + Set the pending SError exception state for this VCPU. It is not possible to 'cancel' an Serror that has been made pending. +If the guest performed an access to I/O memory which could not be handled by +userspace, for example because of missing instruction syndrome decode +information or because there is no device mapped at the accessed IPA, then +userspace can ask the kernel to inject an external abort using the address +from the exiting fault on the VCPU. It is a programming error to set +ext_dabt_pending after an exit which was not either KVM_EXIT_MMIO or +KVM_EXIT_ARM_NISV. This feature is only available if the system supports +KVM_CAP_ARM_INJECT_EXT_DABT. This is a helper which provides commonality in +how userspace reports accesses for the above cases to guests, across different +userspace implementations. Nevertheless, userspace can still emulate all Arm +exceptions by manipulating individual registers using the KVM_SET_ONE_REG API. + See KVM_GET_VCPU_EVENTS for the data structure. |