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authorSukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2020-01-06 18:02:37 -0800
committerPaul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>2020-01-17 15:08:31 +1100
commit3a43970d55e9fd5475d3c4e5fe398ab831ec6c3a (patch)
treed2b2e31e51d8e1017ed7178bfb903beb49af1744 /Documentation/powerpc
parentce477a7a1cdfc9aaafcfd03b45bde131a88d51de (diff)
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Implement H_SVM_INIT_ABORT hcall
Implement the H_SVM_INIT_ABORT hcall which the Ultravisor can use to abort an SVM after it has issued the H_SVM_INIT_START and before the H_SVM_INIT_DONE hcalls. This hcall could be used when Ultravisor encounters security violations or other errors when starting an SVM. Note that this hcall is different from UV_SVM_TERMINATE ucall which is used by HV to terminate/cleanup an VM that has becore secure. The H_SVM_INIT_ABORT basically undoes operations that were done since the H_SVM_INIT_START hcall - i.e page-out all the VM pages back to normal memory, and terminate the SVM. (If we do not bring the pages back to normal memory, the text/data of the VM would be stuck in secure memory and since the SVM did not go secure, its MSR_S bit will be clear and the VM wont be able to access its pages even to do a clean exit). Based on patches and discussion with Paul Mackerras, Ram Pai and Bharata Rao. Signed-off-by: Ram Pai <linuxram@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
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@@ -948,6 +948,66 @@ Use cases
up its internal state for this virtual machine.
+H_SVM_INIT_ABORT
+----------------
+
+ Abort the process of securing an SVM.
+
+Syntax
+~~~~~~
+
+.. code-block:: c
+
+ uint64_t hypercall(const uint64_t H_SVM_INIT_ABORT)
+
+Return values
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+ One of the following values:
+
+ * H_PARAMETER on successfully cleaning up the state,
+ Hypervisor will return this value to the
+ **guest**, to indicate that the underlying
+ UV_ESM ultracall failed.
+
+ * H_STATE if called after a VM has gone secure (i.e
+ H_SVM_INIT_DONE hypercall was successful).
+
+ * H_UNSUPPORTED if called from a wrong context (e.g. from a
+ normal VM).
+
+Description
+~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+ Abort the process of securing a virtual machine. This call must
+ be made after a prior call to ``H_SVM_INIT_START`` hypercall and
+ before a call to ``H_SVM_INIT_DONE``.
+
+ On entry into this hypercall the non-volatile GPRs and FPRs are
+ expected to contain the values they had at the time the VM issued
+ the UV_ESM ultracall. Further ``SRR0`` is expected to contain the
+ address of the instruction after the ``UV_ESM`` ultracall and ``SRR1``
+ the MSR value with which to return to the VM.
+
+ This hypercall will cleanup any partial state that was established for
+ the VM since the prior ``H_SVM_INIT_START`` hypercall, including paging
+ out pages that were paged-into secure memory, and issue the
+ ``UV_SVM_TERMINATE`` ultracall to terminate the VM.
+
+ After the partial state is cleaned up, control returns to the VM
+ (**not Ultravisor**), at the address specified in ``SRR0`` with the
+ MSR values set to the value in ``SRR1``.
+
+Use cases
+~~~~~~~~~
+
+ If after a successful call to ``H_SVM_INIT_START``, the Ultravisor
+ encounters an error while securing a virtual machine, either due
+ to lack of resources or because the VM's security information could
+ not be validated, Ultravisor informs the Hypervisor about it.
+ Hypervisor should use this call to clean up any internal state for
+ this virtual machine and return to the VM.
+
H_SVM_PAGE_IN
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