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On CPUs that support S2FWB (Armv8.4+), KVM configures the stage 2 page tables to override the memory attributes of memory accesses, regardless of the stage 1 page table configurations, and also when the stage 1 MMU is turned off. This results in all memory accesses to RAM being cacheable, including during early boot of the guest. On CPUs without this feature, memory accesses were non-cacheable during boot until the guest turned on the stage 1 MMU, and we had to detect when the guest turned on the MMU, such that we could invalidate all cache entries and ensure a consistent view of memory with the MMU turned on. When the guest turned on the caches, we would call stage2_flush_vm() from kvm_toggle_cache(). However, stage2_flush_vm() walks all the stage 2 tables, and calls __kvm_flush-dcache_pte, which on a system with S2FWB does ... absolutely nothing. We can avoid that whole song and dance, and simply not set TVM when creating a VM on a system that has S2FWB. Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191028130541.30536-1-christoffer.dall@arm.com
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.