doc: update memory management hld

1. Some security features are added into ACRN HV memory management.
2. Dynamic memory allocation is removed. Instead, static memory page allocation is added.
3. The guest to host mapping is not static any more for Service OS after it begins running
since the Service OS support PCI BAR re-pregramming now.

Signed-off-by: Li, Fei1 <fei1.li@intel.com>
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@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Overview
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The hypervisor (HV) virtualizes real physical memory so an unmodified OS
(such as Linux or Android) running in a virtual machine, has the view of
(such as Linux or Android), running in a virtual machine, has the view of
managing its own contiguous physical memory. HV uses virtual-processor
identifiers (VPIDs) and the extended page-table mechanism (EPT) to
translate guest-physical address into host-physical address. HV enables
@ -22,8 +22,7 @@ consider. From the hypervisor's point of view there are:
- **Host Physical Address (HPA)**: the native physical address space, and
- **Host Virtual Address (HVA)**: the native virtual address space based on
a MMU. A page table is used to translate between HPA and HVA
spaces.
a MMU. A page table is used to translate from HVA to HPA spaces.
From the Guest OS running on a hypervisor there are:
@ -62,7 +61,10 @@ Hypervisor Physical Memory Management
In the ACRN, the HV initializes MMU page tables to manage all physical
memory and then switches to the new MMU page tables. After MMU page
tables are initialized at the platform initialization stage, no updates
are made for MMU page tables.
are made for MMU page tables except hv_access_memory_region_update is called.
However, the memory region updated by hv_access_memory_region_update
must not be accessed by ACRN hypervisor in advance. Because access could
make mapping in TLB and there is no TLB flush mechanism for ACRN hv memory.
Hypervisor Physical Memory Layout - E820
========================================
@ -91,9 +93,12 @@ Hypervisor Memory Initialization
The ACRN hypervisor runs under paging mode. After the bootstrap
processor (BSP) gets the platform E820 table, BSP creates its MMU page
table based on it. This is done by the function *init_paging()* and
*smep()*. After the application processor (AP) receives IPI CPU startup
interrupt, it uses the MMU page tables created by BSP and enable SMEP.
table based on it. This is done by the function *init_paging()*.
After the application processor (AP) receives IPI CPU startup
interrupt, it uses the MMU page tables created by BSP. In order to bring
the memory access rights into effect, some other APIs are provided:
enable_paging will enable IA32_EFER.NXE and CR0.WP, enable_smep will
enable CR4.SMEP and enable_smap will enale CR4.SMAP.
:numref:`hv-mem-init` describes the hypervisor memory initialization for BSP
and APs.
@ -107,8 +112,14 @@ The memory mapping policy used is:
- Identical mapping (ACRN hypervisor memory could be relocatable in
the future)
- Map all memory regions with UNCACHED type
- Remap RAM regions to WRITE-BACK type
- Map all the address space with UNCACHED type, read/write, user
and execute-disable access right
- Remap [0, low32_max_ram) regions to WRITE-BACK type
- Remap [4G, high64_max_ram) regions to WRITE-BACK type
- set the paging-structure entries' U/S flag to
supervisor-mode for hypervisor owned memroy
(exclude the memory reserve for trusty)
- remove 'NX' bit for pages that contain hv code section
.. figure:: images/mem-image69.png
:align: center
@ -125,7 +136,9 @@ The memory mapping policy used is:
code/data (< 1M part is for secondary CPU reset code)
The hypervisor should use minimum memory pages to map from virtual
address space into physical address space.
address space into physical address space. So ACRN only support
map linear addresses to 2-MByte pages, or 1-GByte pages, doesn't
support map linear addresses to 4-KByte pages.
- If 1GB hugepage can be used
for virtual address space mapping, the corresponding PDPT entry shall be
@ -133,9 +146,6 @@ address space into physical address space.
- If 1GB hugepage can't be used for virtual
address space mapping and 2MB hugepage can be used, the corresponding
PDT entry shall be set for this 2MB hugepage.
- If both of 1GB hugepage
and 2MB hugepage can't be used for virtual address space mapping, the
corresponding PT entry shall be set.
If memory type or access rights of a page is updated, or some virtual
address space is deleted, it will lead to splitting of the corresponding
@ -145,10 +155,9 @@ virtual address space into physical address space.
Memory Pages Pool Functions
===========================
Memory pages pool functions provide dynamic management of multiple
4KB page-size memory blocks, used by the hypervisor to store internal
data. Through these functions, the hypervisor can allocate and
deallocate pages.
Memory pages pool functions provide static management of one
4KB page-size memory block for each page level for each VM or HV,
used by the hypervisor to do memory mapping.
Data Flow Design
================
@ -175,6 +184,9 @@ MMU Initialization
.. doxygenfunction:: enable_smep
:project: Project ACRN
.. doxygenfunction:: enable_smap
:project: Project ACRN
.. doxygenfunction:: enable_paging
:project: Project ACRN
@ -184,6 +196,12 @@ MMU Initialization
Address Space Translation
-------------------------
.. doxygenfunction:: hpa2hva_early
:project: Project ACRN
.. doxygenfunction:: hva2hpa_early
:project: Project ACRN
.. doxygenfunction:: hpa2hva
:project: Project ACRN
@ -268,8 +286,8 @@ hypervisor should still keep to using minimum EPT pages to map from GPA
space into HPA space.
The hypervisor provides EPT guest-physical mappings adding service, EPT
guest-physical mappings modifying/deleting service, EPT page tables
deallocation, and EPT guest-physical mappings invalidation service.
guest-physical mappings modifying/deleting service and EPT guest-physical
mappings invalidation service.
Virtual MTRR
************
@ -420,6 +438,15 @@ EPT
.. doxygenfunction:: ept_misconfig_vmexit_handler
:project: Project ACRN
.. doxygenfunction:: ept_flush_leaf_page
:project: Project ACRN
.. doxygenfunction:: get_ept_entry
:project: Project ACRN
.. doxygenfunction:: walk_ept_table
:project: Project ACRN
Virtual MTRR
------------
@ -469,7 +496,7 @@ almost all the system memory as shown here:
Host to Guest Mapping
=====================
ACRN hypervisor creates Service OS's host (HPA) to guest (GPA) mapping
ACRN hypervisor creates Service OS's guest (GPA) to host (HPA) mapping
(EPT mapping) through the function ``prepare_sos_vm_memmap()``
when it creates the SOS VM. It follows these rules:
@ -477,13 +504,14 @@ when it creates the SOS VM. It follows these rules:
- Map all memory range with UNCACHED type
- Remap RAM entries in E820 (revised) with WRITE-BACK type
- Unmap ACRN hypervisor memory range
- Unmap all platform EPC resource
- Unmap ACRN hypervisor emulated vLAPIC/vIOAPIC MMIO range
The host to guest mapping is static for the Service OS; it will not
change after the Service OS begins running. Each native device driver
can access its MMIO through this static mapping. EPT violation is only
serving for vLAPIC/vIOAPIC's emulation in the hypervisor for Service OS
VM.
The guest to host mapping is static for the Service OS; it will not
change after the Service OS begins running except the PCI device BAR
address mapping could be re-programmed by the Service OS. EPT violation
is serving for vLAPIC/vIOAPIC's emulation or PCI MSI-X table BAR's emulation
in the hypervisor for Service OS VM.
Trusty
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