This patchset adds support for emulating the Arm architectural features FEAT_NV and FEAT_NV2 which allow nested virtualization, i.e. where a hypervisor can run a guest which thinks it is running at EL2.
Nominally FEAT_NV is sufficient for this and FEAT_NV2 merely improves the performance in the nested-virt setup, but in practice hypervisors such as KVM are going to require FEAT_NV2 and not bother to support the FEAT_NV-only case, so I have implemented them one after the other in this single patchset. The feature is essentially a collection of changes that allow the hypervisor to lie to the guest so that it thinks it is running in EL2 when it's really at EL1. The best summary of what all the changes are is in section D8.11 "Nested virtualization" in the Arm ARM, but the short summary is: * EL2 system registers etc trap to EL2 rather than UNDEFing * ERET traps to EL2 * the CurrentEL register reports "EL2" when NV is enabled * on exception entry, SPSR_EL1.M may report "EL2" as the EL the exception was taken from * when HCR_EL1.NV1 is also set, then there are some extra tweaks (NV1 == 1 means "guest thinks it is running with HCR_EL2.E2H == 0") * some AT S1 address translation insns can be trapped to EL2 and FEAT_NV2 adds: * accesses to some system registers are transformed into memory accesses instead of trapping to EL2 * accesses to a few EL2 system registers are redirected to the equivalent EL1 registers This patchset is sufficient that you can run an L0 guest kernel that has support for FEAT_NV/FEAT_NV2 in its KVM code, and then inside that start a nested L1 guest that thinks it has EL2 access, and then run an inner-nested L2 guest under that that can get to running userspace code. To do that you'll need some not-yet-upstream patches for both Linux and kvmtool: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/maz/arm-platforms.git/log/?h=kvm-arm64/nv-6.8-nv2-only https://gitlab.arm.com/linux-arm/kvmtool/-/commits/nv-v6.6 You'll also want to turn off SVE and SME emulation in QEMU (-cpu max,sve=off,sme=off) because at the moment the KVM patchset doesn't handle SVE and nested-virt together (the other option is to hack kvmtool to make it not ask for both at once, but this is easier). (kvmtool is needed here to run the L1 because QEMU itself as a VMM doesn't yet support asking KVM for an EL2 guest.) The first three patches in the series aren't strictly part of FEAT_NV: * patch 1 is already reviewed; I put it here to avoid having to deal with textual conflicts between it and this series * patch 2 sets CTR_EL0.{IDC,DIC} for '-cpu max', which is a good idea anyway and also works around what Marc Z and I think is a KVM bug that otherwise causes boot of the L2 kernel to hang * patch 3 is a GIC bug which is not FEAT_NV specific but for some reason only manifests when booting an L1 kernel under NV thanks -- PMM Peter Maydell (35): target/arm: Don't implement *32_EL2 registers when EL1 is AArch64 only target/arm: Set CTR_EL0.{IDC,DIC} for the 'max' CPU hw/intc/arm_gicv3_cpuif: handle LPIs in in the list registers target/arm: Handle HCR_EL2 accesses for bits introduced with FEAT_NV target/arm: Implement HCR_EL2.AT handling target/arm: Enable trapping of ERET for FEAT_NV target/arm: Always honour HCR_EL2.TSC when HCR_EL2.NV is set target/arm: Allow use of upper 32 bits of TBFLAG_A64 target/arm: Record correct opcode fields in cpreg for E2H aliases target/arm: *_EL12 registers should UNDEF when HCR_EL2.E2H is 0 target/arm: Make EL2 cpreg accessfns safe for FEAT_NV EL1 accesses target/arm: Move FPU/SVE/SME access checks up above ARM_CP_SPECIAL_MASK check target/arm: Trap sysreg accesses for FEAT_NV target/arm: Make NV reads of CurrentEL return EL2 target/arm: Set SPSR_EL1.M correctly when nested virt is enabled target/arm: Trap registers when HCR_EL2.{NV,NV1} == {1,1} target/arm: Always use arm_pan_enabled() when checking if PAN is enabled target/arm: Don't honour PSTATE.PAN when HCR_EL2.{NV,NV1} == {1,1} target/arm: Treat LDTR* and STTR* as LDR/STR when NV,NV1 is 1,1 target/arm: Handle FEAT_NV page table attribute changes target/arm: Add FEAT_NV to max, neoverse-n2, neoverse-v1 CPUs target/arm: Handle HCR_EL2 accesses for FEAT_NV2 bits target/arm: Implement VNCR_EL2 register target/arm: Handle FEAT_NV2 changes to when SPSR_EL1.M reports EL2 target/arm: Handle FEAT_NV2 redirection of SPSR_EL2, ELR_EL2, ESR_EL2, FAR_EL2 target/arm: Implement FEAT_NV2 redirection of sysregs to RAM target/arm: Report VNCR_EL2 based faults correctly target/arm: Mark up VNCR offsets (offsets 0x0..0xff) target/arm: Mark up VNCR offsets (offsets 0x100..0x160) target/arm: Mark up VNCR offsets (offsets 0x168..0x1f8) target/arm: Mark up VNCR offsets (offsets >= 0x200, except GIC) hw/intc/arm_gicv3_cpuif: Mark up VNCR offsets for GIC CPU registers target/arm: Report HCR_EL2.{NV,NV1,NV2} in cpu dumps target/arm: Enhance CPU_LOG_INT to show SPSR on AArch64 exception-entry target/arm: Add FEAT_NV2 to max, neoverse-n2, neoverse-v1 CPUs docs/system/arm/emulation.rst | 2 + target/arm/cpregs.h | 54 ++++- target/arm/cpu-features.h | 10 + target/arm/cpu.h | 24 ++- target/arm/syndrome.h | 20 +- target/arm/tcg/translate.h | 16 +- hw/intc/arm_gicv3_cpuif.c | 28 ++- target/arm/cpu.c | 8 +- target/arm/debug_helper.c | 34 +++- target/arm/helper.c | 360 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- target/arm/ptw.c | 21 ++ target/arm/tcg/cpu64.c | 11 + target/arm/tcg/hflags.c | 30 ++- target/arm/tcg/op_helper.c | 16 +- target/arm/tcg/tlb_helper.c | 27 ++- target/arm/tcg/translate-a64.c | 162 +++++++++++++-- 16 files changed, 725 insertions(+), 98 deletions(-) -- 2.34.1
