From: Jack Thomson <jackabt.amazon@gmail.com>
To: maz@kernel.org, oliver.upton@linux.dev, pbonzini@redhat.com
Cc: joey.gouly@arm.com, suzuki.poulose@arm.com, yuzenghui@huawei.com,
catalin.marinas@arm.com, will@kernel.org, shuah@kernel.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, kvmarm@lists.linux.dev,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
isaku.yamahata@intel.com, roypat@amazon.co.uk,
kalyazin@amazon.co.uk, jackabt@amazon.com
Subject: [PATCH v2 0/4] KVM ARM64 pre_fault_memory
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2025 16:14:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251013151502.6679-1-jackabt.amazon@gmail.com> (raw)
From: Jack Thomson <jackabt@amazon.com>
This patch series adds ARM64 support for the KVM_PRE_FAULT_MEMORY
feature, which was previously only available on x86 [1]. This allows us
to reduce the number of stage-2 faults during execution. This is of
benefit in post-copy migration scenarios, particularly in memory
intensive applications, where we are experiencing high latencies due to
the stage-2 faults.
Patch Overview:
- The first patch adds support for the KVM_PRE_FAULT_MEMORY ioctl
on arm64.
- The second patch fixes an issue with unaligned mmap allocations
in the selftests.
- The third patch updates the pre_fault_memory_test to support
arm64.
- The last patch extends the pre_fault_memory_test to cover
different vm memory backings.
=== Changes Since v1 [2] ===
Addressing feedback from Oliver:
- No pre-fault flag is passed to user_mem_abort() or gmem_abort() now
aborts are synthesized.
- Remove retry loop from kvm_arch_vcpu_pre_fault_memory()
[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20240710174031.312055-1-pbonzini@redhat.com
[2]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250911134648.58945-1-jackabt.amazon@gmail.com
Jack Thomson (4):
KVM: arm64: Add pre_fault_memory implementation
KVM: selftests: Fix unaligned mmap allocations
KVM: selftests: Enable pre_fault_memory_test for arm64
KVM: selftests: Add option for different backing in pre-fault tests
Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst | 3 +-
arch/arm64/kvm/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c | 1 +
arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c | 73 +++++++++++-
tools/testing/selftests/kvm/Makefile.kvm | 1 +
tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/kvm_util.c | 12 +-
.../selftests/kvm/pre_fault_memory_test.c | 110 +++++++++++++-----
7 files changed, 163 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)
base-commit: 42188667be387867d2bf763d028654cbad046f7b
--
2.43.0
next reply other threads:[~2025-10-13 15:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-10-13 15:14 Jack Thomson [this message]
2025-10-13 15:14 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] KVM: arm64: Add pre_fault_memory implementation Jack Thomson
2025-10-16 14:01 ` Suzuki K Poulose
2025-10-13 15:14 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] KVM: selftests: Fix unaligned mmap allocations Jack Thomson
2025-10-23 17:16 ` Sean Christopherson
2025-10-28 11:44 ` Thomson, Jack
2025-11-03 21:08 ` Sean Christopherson
2025-11-04 11:40 ` Thomson, Jack
2025-11-04 20:19 ` Sean Christopherson
2025-11-13 11:34 ` Thomson, Jack
2025-10-13 15:15 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] KVM: selftests: Enable pre_fault_memory_test for arm64 Jack Thomson
2025-10-13 15:15 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] KVM: selftests: Add option for different backing in pre-fault tests Jack Thomson
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