[Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 00/25] arm/altp2m: Introducing altp2m to ARM.

[Sergej Proskurin <proskurin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello all,

The following patch series can be found on Github[0] and is part of my
contribution to this year's Google Summer of Code (GSoC)[1]. My project is
managed by the organization The Honeynet Project. As part of GSoC, I am being
supervised by the Xen developer Tamas K. Lengyel <tamas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, George
D. Webster, and Steven Maresca.

In this patch series, we provide an implementation of the altp2m subsystem for
ARM. Our implementation is based on the altp2m subsystem for x86, providing
additional --alternate-- views on the guest's physical memory by means of the
ARM 2nd stage translation mechanism. The patches introduce new HVMOPs and
extend the p2m subsystem. Also, we extend libxl to support altp2m on ARM and
modify xen-access to test the suggested functionality.

To be more precise, altp2m allows to create and switch to additional p2m views
(i.e. gfn to mfn mappings). These views can be manipulated and activated as
will through the provided HVMOPs. In this way, the active guest instance in
question can seamlessly proceed execution without noticing that anything has
changed. The prime scope of application of altp2m is Virtual Machine
Introspection, where guest systems are analyzed from the outside of the VM.

Altp2m can be activated by means of the guest control parameter "altp2m" on x86
and ARM architectures.  The altp2m functionality by default can also be used
from within the guest by design. For use-cases requiring purely external access
to altp2m, a custom XSM policy is necessary on both x86 and ARM.

The current code-base is based on Julien Grall's branch abort-handlers-v2[2].

[0] https://github.com/sergej-proskurin/xen (branch arm-altp2m-v2)
[1] https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/projects/#4970052843470848
[2] git://xenbits.xen.org/people/julieng/xen-unstable.git (branch 
abort-handlers-v2)


Sergej Proskurin (25):
  arm/altp2m: Add first altp2m HVMOP stubs.
  arm/altp2m: Add HVMOP_altp2m_get_domain_state.
  arm/altp2m: Add struct vttbr.
  arm/altp2m: Move hostp2m init/teardown to individual functions.
  arm/altp2m: Rename and extend p2m_alloc_table.
  arm/altp2m: Cosmetic fixes - function prototypes.
  arm/altp2m: Add altp2m init/teardown routines.
  arm/altp2m: Add HVMOP_altp2m_set_domain_state.
  arm/altp2m: Add altp2m table flushing routine.
  arm/altp2m: Add HVMOP_altp2m_create_p2m.
  arm/altp2m: Add HVMOP_altp2m_destroy_p2m.
  arm/altp2m: Add HVMOP_altp2m_switch_p2m.
  arm/altp2m: Make p2m_restore_state ready for altp2m.
  arm/altp2m: Make get_page_from_gva ready for altp2m.
  arm/altp2m: Extend __p2m_lookup.
  arm/altp2m: Make p2m_mem_access_check ready for altp2m.
  arm/altp2m: Cosmetic fixes - function prototypes.
  arm/altp2m: Add HVMOP_altp2m_set_mem_access.
  arm/altp2m: Add altp2m_propagate_change.
  arm/altp2m: Add altp2m paging mechanism.
  arm/altp2m: Add HVMOP_altp2m_change_gfn.
  arm/altp2m: Adjust debug information to altp2m.
  arm/altp2m: Extend libxl to activate altp2m on ARM.
  arm/altp2m: Extend xen-access for altp2m on ARM.
  arm/altp2m: Add test of xc_altp2m_change_gfn.

 tools/libxl/libxl.h                 |   3 +-
 tools/libxl/libxl_create.c          |   8 +-
 tools/libxl/libxl_dom.c             |   4 +-
 tools/libxl/libxl_types.idl         |   4 +-
 tools/libxl/xl_cmdimpl.c            |  26 +-
 tools/tests/xen-access/xen-access.c | 162 ++++++++-
 xen/arch/arm/Makefile               |   1 +
 xen/arch/arm/altp2m.c               | 675 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 xen/arch/arm/hvm.c                  | 129 +++++++
 xen/arch/arm/p2m.c                  | 430 ++++++++++++++++++-----
 xen/arch/arm/traps.c                | 126 +++++--
 xen/include/asm-arm/altp2m.h        |  79 ++++-
 xen/include/asm-arm/domain.h        |  16 +
 xen/include/asm-arm/flushtlb.h      |   4 +
 xen/include/asm-arm/p2m.h           |  68 +++-
 xen/include/asm-arm/processor.h     |  16 +
 16 files changed, 1594 insertions(+), 157 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 xen/arch/arm/altp2m.c

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2.9.0


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