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arm64: KVM: flush VM pages before letting the guest enable caches
authorMarc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Wed, 15 Jan 2014 12:50:23 +0000 (12:50 +0000)
committerJiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Thu, 30 Apr 2015 09:15:03 +0000 (11:15 +0200)
commit053689a94fa5696e4beb2306872cec533abee998
treec04c5a616ca7d02ea1f5c1de6d61a4aaf062178d
parent4aa1444f2ecbe70415d23c6282389b62d4b6f59d
arm64: KVM: flush VM pages before letting the guest enable caches

commit 9d218a1fcf4c6b759d442ef702842fae92e1ea61 upstream.

When the guest runs with caches disabled (like in an early boot
sequence, for example), all the writes are diectly going to RAM,
bypassing the caches altogether.

Once the MMU and caches are enabled, whatever sits in the cache
becomes suddenly visible, which isn't what the guest expects.

A way to avoid this potential disaster is to invalidate the cache
when the MMU is being turned on. For this, we hook into the SCTLR_EL1
trapping code, and scan the stage-2 page tables, invalidating the
pages/sections that have already been mapped in.

Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Shannon Zhao <shannon.zhao@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h
arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c
arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h
arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c