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Date:   Thu, 7 Oct 2021 16:38:52 +0200
From:   Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>
To:     Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 10/16] KVM: arm64: Add some documentation for the MMIO
 guard feature
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On Mon, Oct 04, 2021 at 06:48:43PM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> Document the hypercalls user for the MMIO guard infrastructure.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
> ---
>  Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/index.rst      |  1 +
>  Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/mmio-guard.rst | 74 +++++++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 75 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/mmio-guard.rst
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/index.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/index.rst
> index 78a9b670aafe..e77a0ee2e2d4 100644
> --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/index.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/index.rst
> @@ -11,3 +11,4 @@ ARM
>     psci
>     pvtime
>     ptp_kvm
> +   mmio-guard
> diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/mmio-guard.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/mmio-guard.rst
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..8b3c852c5d92
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/mmio-guard.rst
> @@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
> +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> +
> +==============
> +KVM MMIO guard
> +==============
> +
> +KVM implements device emulation by handling translation faults to any
> +IPA range that is not contained in a memory slot. Such a translation
> +fault is in most cases passed on to userspace (or in rare cases to the
> +host kernel) with the address, size and possibly data of the access
> +for emulation.
> +
> +Should the guest exit with an address that is not one that corresponds
> +to an emulatable device, userspace may take measures that are not the
> +most graceful as far as the guest is concerned (such as terminating it
> +or delivering a fatal exception).
> +
> +There is also an element of trust: by forwarding the request to
> +userspace, the kernel assumes that the guest trusts userspace to do
> +the right thing.
> +
> +The KVM MMIO guard offers a way to mitigate this last point: a guest
> +can request that only certain regions of the IPA space are valid as
> +MMIO. Only these regions will be handled as an MMIO, and any other
> +will result in an exception being delivered to the guest.
> +
> +This relies on a set of hypercalls defined in the KVM-specific range,
> +using the HVC64 calling convention.
> +
> +* ARM_SMCCC_KVM_FUNC_MMIO_GUARD_INFO
> +
> +    ==============    ========    ================================
> +    Function ID:      (uint32)    0xC6000002
> +    Arguments:        none
> +    Return Values:    (int64)     NOT_SUPPORTED(-1) on error, or
> +                      (uint64)    Protection Granule (PG) size in
> +                                  bytes (r0)
> +    ==============    ========    ================================
> +
> +* ARM_SMCCC_KVM_FUNC_MMIO_GUARD_ENROLL
> +
> +    ==============    ========    ==============================
> +    Function ID:      (uint32)    0xC6000003
> +    Arguments:        none
> +    Return Values:    (int64)     NOT_SUPPORTED(-1) on error, or
> +                                  RET_SUCCESS(0) (r0)
> +    ==============    ========    ==============================
> +
> +* ARM_SMCCC_KVM_FUNC_MMIO_GUARD_MAP
> +
> +    ==============    ========    ====================================
> +    Function ID:      (uint32)    0xC6000004
> +    Arguments:        (uint64)    The base of the PG-sized IPA range
> +                                  that is allowed to be accessed as
> +                                  MMIO. Must be aligned to the PG size
> +                                  (r1)
> +                      (uint64)    Index in the MAIR_EL1 register
> +		                  providing the memory attribute that
> +				  is used by the guest (r2)
    ^^ some tabs got in here

> +    Return Values:    (int64)     NOT_SUPPORTED(-1) on error, or
> +                                  RET_SUCCESS(0) (r0)
> +    ==============    ========    ====================================
> +
> +* ARM_SMCCC_KVM_FUNC_MMIO_GUARD_UNMAP
> +
> +    ==============    ========    ======================================
> +    Function ID:      (uint32)    0xC6000005
> +    Arguments:        (uint64)    PG-sized IPA range aligned to the PG
> +                                  size which has been previously mapped.
> +                                  Must be aligned to the PG size and
> +                                  have been previously mapped (r1)
> +    Return Values:    (int64)     NOT_SUPPORTED(-1) on error, or
> +                                  RET_SUCCESS(0) (r0)
> +    ==============    ========    ======================================
> -- 
> 2.30.2
>

Otherwise,

Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>

Thanks,
drew