Atomic instructions such as 'ldset' over (global) variables in the guest is observed to cause an EL1 data abort with FSC 0x35 (IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED fault (Unsupported Exclusive or Atomic access)). The observation was particularly apparent on Neoverse-N3. According to DDI0487L.a C3.2.6 (Single-copy atomic 64-byte load/store), it is implementation defined that a data abort with the mentioned FSC is reported for the first stage of translation that provides an inappropriate memory type. It's likely that the same rule also applies to memory attribute mismatch. When the guest loads the memory location of the variable that was already cached during the host userspace's copying of the ELF into the memory, the core is likely running into a mismatch of memory attrs that's checked in stage-1 itself, and thus causing the abort in EL1. Fix this by explicitly setting the memory attribute to Inner-Shareable to avoid the mismatch, and by extension, the data abort. Suggested-by: Oliver Upton <oupton@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Raghavendra Rao Ananta <rananta@xxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/testing/selftests/kvm/include/arm64/processor.h | 1 + tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/arm64/processor.c | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/include/arm64/processor.h b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/include/arm64/processor.h index 691670bbe226..b337a606aac4 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/include/arm64/processor.h +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/include/arm64/processor.h @@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ #define PMD_TYPE_TABLE BIT(1) #define PTE_TYPE_PAGE BIT(1) +#define PTE_SHARED (UL(3) << 8) /* SH[1:0], inner shareable */ #define PTE_AF BIT(10) #define PTE_ADDR_MASK(page_shift) GENMASK(47, (page_shift)) diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/arm64/processor.c b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/arm64/processor.c index da5802c8a59c..9d69904cb608 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/arm64/processor.c +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/arm64/processor.c @@ -172,6 +172,9 @@ static void _virt_pg_map(struct kvm_vm *vm, uint64_t vaddr, uint64_t paddr, } pg_attr = PTE_AF | PTE_ATTRINDX(attr_idx) | PTE_TYPE_PAGE | PTE_VALID; + if (!use_lpa2_pte_format(vm)) + pg_attr |= PTE_SHARED; + *ptep = addr_pte(vm, paddr, pg_attr); } -- 2.49.0.504.g3bcea36a83-goog
