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, xmarcalx@amazon.co.uk,
kalyazin@amazon.co.uk, jackabt@amazon.com
Subject: [PATCH v4 0/3] KVM ARM64 pre_fault_memory
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2026 15:26:39 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260113152643.18858-1-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 updates the pre_fault_memory_test to support
arm64.
- The last patch extends the pre_fault_memory_test to cover
different vm memory backings.
With regards to the additional parameter to `user_mem_abort`, noted in
the v3 review, would you like this to be fixed in this series or would
a follow-up series be ok? I also found a series from Sean which looks
to address this [2].
=== Changes Since v3 [3] ===
- Updated to now return -EOPNOTSUPP for pKVM. Previously this was not
checked.
- When running a nested guest, properly resolve the L2 IPA to L1 IPA
before pre faulting.
- Refactoring, page_size is now unsigned and ordered definitions at
top of pre_fault function.
Thanks Marc for your review
=== Changes Since v2 [4] ===
- Update fault info synthesize value. Thanks Suzuki
- Remove change to selftests for unaligned mmap allocations. Thanks
Sean
[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20240710174031.312055-1-pbonzini@redhat.com
[2]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20250821210042.3451147-1-seanjc@google.com/
[3]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20251119154910.97716-1-jackabt.amazon@gmail.com
[4]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20251013151502.6679-1-jackabt.amazon@gmail.com
Jack Thomson (3):
KVM: arm64: Add pre_fault_memory implementation
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 | 79 +++++++++++-
tools/testing/selftests/kvm/Makefile.kvm | 1 +
.../selftests/kvm/pre_fault_memory_test.c | 115 ++++++++++++++----
6 files changed, 169 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
base-commit: 3611ca7c12b740e250d83f8bbe3554b740c503b0
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2.43.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-01-13 15:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-01-13 15:26 Jack Thomson [this message]
2026-01-13 15:26 ` [PATCH v4 1/3] KVM: arm64: Add pre_fault_memory implementation Jack Thomson
2026-01-15 9:51 ` Marc Zyngier
2026-01-16 14:33 ` Thomson, Jack
2026-01-18 10:29 ` Marc Zyngier
2026-01-19 11:10 ` Thomson, Jack
2026-01-13 15:26 ` [PATCH v4 2/3] KVM: selftests: Enable pre_fault_memory_test for arm64 Jack Thomson
2026-01-13 15:26 ` [PATCH v4 3/3] KVM: selftests: Add option for different backing in pre-fault tests Jack Thomson
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