Re: [RISC-V] [tech-tee] The proposal of sPMP
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Most hypervisor will always have G-stage (Stage2) programmed for each Guest/VM irrespective whether VS-mode MMU is on or off. This means the G-stage level protection is always there for Guest/VM. When a Guest/VM does invalid physical address access, the hypervisor catches it as trap. Most hypervisor will always stop/dump the Guest/VM when it misbehaves and possibly even report the event to some cloud management software. I don’t see how sPMP fits in virtualization scenario considering a G-stage is already available. Things will get even more complicated for nested virtualization if a hypervisor chooses to expose sPMP to the Guest hypervisor.
The only utility of sPMP seems to be letting HS-mode handle invalid access trap directly rather than being routed through M-mode firmware.
I think it is best to just re-purpose page fault exception codes for sPMP whenever sPMP is available.
Regards, Anup
From: tech-privileged@... <tech-privileged@...>
On Behalf Of Dong Du
Yes, it's reasonable as both sPMP and paging provides memory protection that is managed by the S-mode.
Following the idea, suggestions by Bill and Jonathan to rename exception codes 12, 13, and 15 to "page fault / sPMP fault" or "S-mode access fault" do make sense.
All the best, Dong
------------------ Original ------------------ Date: Tue, Apr 20, 2021 09:06 AM To: "Bill Huffman"<huffman@...>; Cc: "Paolo Bonzini"<pbonzini@...>; "tech-privileged"<tech-privileged@...>; Subject: Re: [RISC-V] [tech-privileged] [RISC-V] [tech-tee] The proposal of sPMP
Στις 2021-04-20 00:37, Bill Huffman έγραψε:
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