From: Sairaj Kodilkar <sarunkod@amd.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
"Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@infradead.org>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
"Mathieu Desnoyers" <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
Sairaj Kodilkar <sarunkod@amd.com>,
"Sean Christopherson" <seanjc@google.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>,
"Uros Bizjak" <ubizjak@gmail.com>, <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <x86@kernel.org>
Cc: <vasant.hegde@amd.com>, <suravee.suthikulpanit@amd.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 0/2] Add support for cmpxchg16b emulation
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2026 12:00:33 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260706063035.1139-1-sarunkod@amd.com> (raw)
This series adds 128-bit compare-exchange support needed for KVM to
emulate guest cmpxchg16b instructions.
The AMD IOMMU driver updates 256-bit device table entries with two
128-bit cmpxchg operations. For hardware-accelerated vIOMMU, QEMU traps
those DTE accesses to install nested page tables [1]. KVM must emulate
guest cmpxchg16b on the trapped MMIO regions; without that, DTE access
emulation fails.
Patch 1: extends the x86 user CMPXCHG helpers with
__try_cmpxchg128_user_asm() (cmpxchg16b on x86-64), wired into
unsafe_try_cmpxchg_user().
Patch 2: extends KVM CMPXCHG8B emulation to 16-byte operands (REX.W=1) and
uses the new helper for atomic 16-byte compare-exchange on guest RAM via
emulator_cmpxchg_emulated().
You can find the KUT to test this series at [2].
[1] https://github.com/AMDESE/qemu-iommu/blob/wip/for_iommufd_hw_queue-v8_amd_viommu_20260106/hw/i386/amd_viommu.c#L517
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20260706062153.346-1-sarunkod@amd.com/T/#u
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Sairaj Kodilkar (2):
x86/uaccess: Extend CMPXCHG user helpers to 128-bit operands
KVM: x86: Add support for cmpxchg16b emulation
arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h | 56 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++----------
arch/x86/kvm/kvm_emulate.h | 6 ++++
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 7 ++++-
4 files changed, 101 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
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2.34.1
next reply other threads:[~2026-07-06 6:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-06 6:30 Sairaj Kodilkar [this message]
2026-07-06 6:30 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] x86/uaccess: Extend CMPXCHG user helpers to 128-bit operands Sairaj Kodilkar
2026-07-06 6:52 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-06 8:00 ` Sairaj Kodilkar
2026-07-06 6:30 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] KVM: x86: Add support for cmpxchg16b emulation Sairaj Kodilkar
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