Re: [PATCH v4 02/10] KVM: arm64: Add ptdump registration with debugfs for the stage-2 pagetables

From: Oliver Upton
Date: Thu Dec 21 2023 - 13:14:37 EST


On Mon, Dec 18, 2023 at 01:58:52PM +0000, Sebastian Ene wrote:
> +config PTDUMP_STAGE2_DEBUGFS
> + bool "Present the stage-2 pagetables to debugfs"
> + depends on PTDUMP_DEBUGFS && KVM
> + default n
> + help
> + Say Y here if you want to show the stage-2 kernel pagetables
> + layout in a debugfs file. This information is only useful for kernel developers
> + who are working in architecture specific areas of the kernel.
> + It is probably not a good idea to enable this feature in a production
> + kernel.

It isn't really a good idea to mount debugfs at all in a production
system. There are already plenty worse interfaces lurking in that
filesystem. The pKVM portions already depend on CONFIG_NVHE_EL2_DEBUG,
so I don't see a need for this Kconfig option.

> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c
> index e5f75f1f1..ee8d7cb67 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c
> @@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
> #include <asm/kvm_pkvm.h>
> #include <asm/kvm_emulate.h>
> #include <asm/sections.h>
> +#include <kvm_ptdump.h>
>
> #include <kvm/arm_hypercalls.h>
> #include <kvm/arm_pmu.h>
> @@ -2592,6 +2593,7 @@ static __init int kvm_arm_init(void)
> if (err)
> goto out_subs;
>
> + kvm_ptdump_register_host();
> kvm_arm_initialised = true;
>
> return 0;
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/kvm_ptdump.h b/arch/arm64/kvm/kvm_ptdump.h
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000..98b595ce8
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/kvm_ptdump.h
> @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only */
> +//
> +// Copyright (C) Google, 2023
> +// Author: Sebastian Ene <sebastianene@xxxxxxxxxx>

You've got the comment styles backwards for these. The SPDX license uses
the 'C++' style comment (//), whereas your multiline comment should always
use a 'C' style comment (/* */).

> +struct kvm_ptdump_register {
> + void *(*get_ptdump_info)(struct kvm_ptdump_register *reg);
> + void (*put_ptdump_info)(void *priv);
> + int (*show_ptdump_info)(struct seq_file *m, void *v);
> + void *priv;
> +};

Please thoroughly consider the necessity of this. You're wrapping a
callback structure with yet another callback structure. IMO, it would
make a lot more sense to implement the file ops structure for every
walker variant you need and avoid the indirection, it's hard to
understand.

> +void kvm_ptdump_register_host(void)
> +{
> + if (!is_protected_kvm_enabled())
> + return;
> +
> + kvm_ptdump_debugfs_register(&host_reg, "host_page_tables",
> + kvm_debugfs_dir);
> +}
> +
> +static int __init kvm_host_ptdump_init(void)
> +{
> + host_reg.priv = (void *)host_s2_pgtable_pages();
> + return 0;
> +}
> +
> +device_initcall(kvm_host_ptdump_init);

Why can't all of this be called from finalize_pkvm()?

> --
> 2.43.0.472.g3155946c3a-goog
>

--
Thanks,
Oliver