[PATCH v3 00/18] xen/arm: Don't switch TTBR while the MMU is on

Julien Grall posted 18 patches 1 year, 5 months ago
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xen/arch/arm/arm32/head.S                 | 285 ++++++++++++++--------
xen/arch/arm/arm64/Makefile               |   1 +
xen/arch/arm/arm64/head.S                 |  55 +++--
xen/arch/arm/arm64/mm.c                   | 160 ++++++++++++
xen/arch/arm/domain_page.c                |   1 +
xen/arch/arm/include/asm/arm32/flushtlb.h |  27 +-
xen/arch/arm/include/asm/arm32/mm.h       |   4 +
xen/arch/arm/include/asm/arm64/flushtlb.h |  58 +++--
xen/arch/arm/include/asm/arm64/mm.h       |  12 +
xen/arch/arm/include/asm/config.h         |  71 ++++--
xen/arch/arm/include/asm/flushtlb.h       |  10 +-
xen/arch/arm/include/asm/mm.h             |   2 +
xen/arch/arm/include/asm/setup.h          |  11 +
xen/arch/arm/mm.c                         | 105 ++++----
xen/arch/arm/xen.lds.S                    |  12 +-
15 files changed, 583 insertions(+), 231 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 xen/arch/arm/arm64/mm.c
[PATCH v3 00/18] xen/arm: Don't switch TTBR while the MMU is on
Posted by Julien Grall 1 year, 5 months ago
From: Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com>

Hi all,

Currently, Xen on Arm will switch TTBR whilst the MMU is on. This is
similar to replacing existing mappings with new ones. So we need to
follow a break-before-make sequence.

When switching the TTBR, we need to temporary disable the MMU
before updating the TTBR. This means the page-tables must contain an
identity mapping.

The current memory layout is not very flexible and has an higher chance
to clash with the identity mapping.

On Arm64, we have plenty of unused virtual address space Therefore, we can
simply reshuffle the layout to leave the first part of the virtual
address space empty.

On Arm32, the virtual address space is already quite full. Even if we
find space, it would be necessary to have a dynamic layout. So a
different approach will be necessary. The chosen one is to have
a temporary mapping that will be used to jumped from the ID mapping
to the runtime mapping (or vice versa). The temporary mapping will
be overlapping with the domheap area as it should not be used when
switching on/off the MMU.

The Arm32 part is not yet addressed and will be handled in a follow-up
series.

After this series, most of Xen page-table code should be compliant
with the Arm Arm. The last two issues I am aware of are:
 - domheap: Mappings are replaced without using the Break-Before-Make
   approach.
 - The cache is not cleaned/invalidated when updating the page-tables
   with Data cache off (like during early boot).

The long term plan is to get rid of boot_* page tables and then
directly use the runtime pages. This means for coloring, we will
need to build the pages in the relocated Xen rather than the current
Xen.

For convience, I pushed a branch with everything applied:

https://xenbits.xen.org/git-http/people/julieng/xen-unstable.git
branch boot-pt-rework-v3

Cheers,

Julien Grall (18):
  xen/arm64: flushtlb: Reduce scope of barrier for local TLB flush
  xen/arm64: flushtlb: Implement the TLBI repeat workaround for TLB
    flush by VA
  xen/arm32: flushtlb: Reduce scope of barrier for local TLB flush
  xen/arm: flushtlb: Reduce scope of barrier for the TLB range flush
  xen/arm: Clean-up the memory layout
  xen/arm32: head: Replace "ldr rX, =<label>" with "mov_w rX, <label>"
  xen/arm32: head: Jump to the runtime mapping in enable_mmu()
  xen/arm32: head: Introduce an helper to flush the TLBs
  xen/arm32: head: Remove restriction where to load Xen
  xen/arm32: head: Widen the use of the temporary mapping
  xen/arm: Enable use of dump_pt_walk() early during boot
  xen/arm64: Rework the memory layout
  xen/arm: mm: Allow xen_pt_update() to work with the current root table
  xen/arm: mm: Allow dump_hyp_walk() to work on the current root table
  xen/arm64: mm: Introduce helpers to prepare/enable/disable the
    identity mapping
  xen/arm: linker: Indent correctly _stext
  xen/arm: linker: The identitymap check should cover the whole
    .text.header
  xen/arm64: mm: Rework switch_ttbr()

 xen/arch/arm/arm32/head.S                 | 285 ++++++++++++++--------
 xen/arch/arm/arm64/Makefile               |   1 +
 xen/arch/arm/arm64/head.S                 |  55 +++--
 xen/arch/arm/arm64/mm.c                   | 160 ++++++++++++
 xen/arch/arm/domain_page.c                |   1 +
 xen/arch/arm/include/asm/arm32/flushtlb.h |  27 +-
 xen/arch/arm/include/asm/arm32/mm.h       |   4 +
 xen/arch/arm/include/asm/arm64/flushtlb.h |  58 +++--
 xen/arch/arm/include/asm/arm64/mm.h       |  12 +
 xen/arch/arm/include/asm/config.h         |  71 ++++--
 xen/arch/arm/include/asm/flushtlb.h       |  10 +-
 xen/arch/arm/include/asm/mm.h             |   2 +
 xen/arch/arm/include/asm/setup.h          |  11 +
 xen/arch/arm/mm.c                         | 105 ++++----
 xen/arch/arm/xen.lds.S                    |  12 +-
 15 files changed, 583 insertions(+), 231 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 xen/arch/arm/arm64/mm.c

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