arm64: KVM: Add support for Stage-2 control of memory types and cacheability

Up to ARMv8.3, the combinaison of Stage-1 and Stage-2 attributes
results in the strongest attribute of the two stages.  This means
that the hypervisor has to perform quite a lot of cache maintenance
just in case the guest has some non-cacheable mappings around.

ARMv8.4 solves this problem by offering a different mode (FWB) where
Stage-2 has total control over the memory attribute (this is limited
to systems where both I/O and instruction fetches are coherent with
the dcache). This is achieved by having a different set of memory
attributes in the page tables, and a new bit set in HCR_EL2.

On such a system, we can then safely sidestep any form of dcache
management.

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c b/virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c
index 1d90d79706bd..ea7314296ad1 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c
@@ -196,6 +196,10 @@ static void clear_stage2_pmd_entry(struct kvm *kvm, pmd_t *pmd, phys_addr_t addr
  * This is why right after unmapping a page/section and invalidating
  * the corresponding TLBs, we call kvm_flush_dcache_p*() to make sure
  * the IO subsystem will never hit in the cache.
+ *
+ * This is all avoided on systems that have ARM64_HAS_STAGE2_FWB, as
+ * we then fully enforce cacheability of RAM, no matter what the guest
+ * does.
  */
 static void unmap_stage2_ptes(struct kvm *kvm, pmd_t *pmd,
 		       phys_addr_t addr, phys_addr_t end)