From: "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
To: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>, Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>,
Oliver Upton <oupton@kernel.org>, Fuad Tabba <tabba@google.com>,
Joey Gouly <joey.gouly@arm.com>,
Steffen Eiden <seiden@linux.ibm.com>,
Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>,
Zenghui Yu <yuzenghui@huawei.com>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
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Jack Thomson <jackabt@amazon.com>,
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Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>,
"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@kernel.org>,
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Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>,
Leo Soares Passos <Leo.Bras@arm.com>,
"Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4/8] KVM: arm64: Pass walk flags to kvm_pgtable_get_leaf()
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2026 17:00:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260825-kvm-arm-prefault-v1-4-befe8947702e@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260825-kvm-arm-prefault-v1-0-befe8947702e@kernel.org>
From: Jack Thomson <jackabt@amazon.com>
Allow callers of kvm_pgtable_get_leaf() to specify the page-table walk
flags, in preparation for performing walks under the MMU read lock.
Reading a stage-2 leaf while only holding the read lock requires
KVM_PGTABLE_WALK_SHARED: parallel faults (which also only hold the read
lock) can unlink table pages and free them via RCU, so the walker must
be inside an RCU read-side critical section, which the shared walk flag
provides via kvm_pgtable_walk_begin().
All existing callers either hold the write lock, walk with interrupts
disabled, or run at hyp where shared walks are rejected; they keep the
current behaviour by passing no flags.
No functional change intended.
Signed-off-by: Jack Thomson <jackabt@amazon.com>
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org>
---
arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pgtable.h | 5 ++++-
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/mem_protect.c | 10 +++++-----
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c | 5 +++--
arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c | 2 +-
arch/arm64/kvm/nested.c | 2 +-
5 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pgtable.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pgtable.h
index 41a8687938eb..d0167f7dfbee 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pgtable.h
@@ -859,6 +859,8 @@ int kvm_pgtable_walk(struct kvm_pgtable *pgt, u64 addr, u64 size,
* @addr: Input address for the start of the walk.
* @ptep: Pointer to storage for the retrieved PTE.
* @level: Pointer to storage for the level of the retrieved PTE.
+ * @flags: Flags to control the page-table walk
+ * (see struct kvm_pgtable_visit_ctx).
*
* The offset of @addr within a page is ignored.
*
@@ -869,7 +871,8 @@ int kvm_pgtable_walk(struct kvm_pgtable *pgt, u64 addr, u64 size,
* Return: 0 on success, negative error code on failure.
*/
int kvm_pgtable_get_leaf(struct kvm_pgtable *pgt, u64 addr,
- kvm_pte_t *ptep, s8 *level);
+ kvm_pte_t *ptep, s8 *level,
+ enum kvm_pgtable_walk_flags flags);
/**
* kvm_pgtable_stage2_pte_prot() - Retrieve the protection attributes of a
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/mem_protect.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/mem_protect.c
index 39aa8911f62c..23a57312b981 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/mem_protect.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/mem_protect.c
@@ -532,7 +532,7 @@ static int host_stage2_adjust_range(u64 addr, struct kvm_mem_range *range)
int ret;
hyp_assert_lock_held(&host_mmu.lock);
- ret = kvm_pgtable_get_leaf(&host_mmu.pgt, addr, &pte, &level);
+ ret = kvm_pgtable_get_leaf(&host_mmu.pgt, addr, &pte, &level, 0);
if (ret)
return ret;
@@ -910,7 +910,7 @@ static int get_valid_guest_pte(struct pkvm_hyp_vm *vm, u64 ipa, kvm_pte_t *ptep,
s8 level;
int ret;
- ret = kvm_pgtable_get_leaf(&vm->pgt, ipa, &pte, &level);
+ ret = kvm_pgtable_get_leaf(&vm->pgt, ipa, &pte, &level, 0);
if (ret)
return ret;
if (guest_pte_is_poisoned(pte))
@@ -959,7 +959,7 @@ int __pkvm_vcpu_in_poison_fault(struct pkvm_hyp_vcpu *hyp_vcpu)
ipa |= FAR_TO_FIPA_OFFSET(kvm_vcpu_get_hfar(&hyp_vcpu->vcpu));
guest_lock_component(vm);
- ret = kvm_pgtable_get_leaf(&vm->pgt, ipa, &pte, &level);
+ ret = kvm_pgtable_get_leaf(&vm->pgt, ipa, &pte, &level, 0);
if (ret)
goto unlock;
@@ -1315,7 +1315,7 @@ static int host_stage2_get_guest_info(phys_addr_t phys, struct pkvm_hyp_vm **vm,
return -EPERM;
}
- ret = kvm_pgtable_get_leaf(&host_mmu.pgt, phys, &pte, &level);
+ ret = kvm_pgtable_get_leaf(&host_mmu.pgt, phys, &pte, &level, 0);
if (ret)
return ret;
@@ -1544,7 +1544,7 @@ static int __check_host_shared_guest(struct pkvm_hyp_vm *vm, u64 *__phys, u64 ip
s8 level;
int ret;
- ret = kvm_pgtable_get_leaf(&vm->pgt, ipa, &pte, &level);
+ ret = kvm_pgtable_get_leaf(&vm->pgt, ipa, &pte, &level, 0);
if (ret)
return ret;
if (!kvm_pte_valid(pte))
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c
index b74dd5ce1efd..347eec3957d6 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c
@@ -298,12 +298,13 @@ static int leaf_walker(const struct kvm_pgtable_visit_ctx *ctx,
}
int kvm_pgtable_get_leaf(struct kvm_pgtable *pgt, u64 addr,
- kvm_pte_t *ptep, s8 *level)
+ kvm_pte_t *ptep, s8 *level,
+ enum kvm_pgtable_walk_flags flags)
{
struct leaf_walk_data data;
struct kvm_pgtable_walker walker = {
.cb = leaf_walker,
- .flags = KVM_PGTABLE_WALK_LEAF,
+ .flags = flags | KVM_PGTABLE_WALK_LEAF,
.arg = &data,
};
int ret;
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
index da15da4e40e6..16299004f229 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -866,7 +866,7 @@ static int get_user_mapping_size(struct kvm *kvm, u64 addr)
* IPI-ing threads).
*/
local_irq_save(flags);
- ret = kvm_pgtable_get_leaf(&pgt, addr, &pte, &level);
+ ret = kvm_pgtable_get_leaf(&pgt, addr, &pte, &level, 0);
local_irq_restore(flags);
if (ret)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/nested.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/nested.c
index 17123f0b6dab..3488d5ad225b 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/nested.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/nested.c
@@ -654,7 +654,7 @@ static u8 get_guest_mapping_ttl(struct kvm_s2_mmu *mmu, u64 addr)
return 0;
tmp &= ~(sz - 1);
- if (kvm_pgtable_get_leaf(mmu->pgt, tmp, &pte, NULL))
+ if (kvm_pgtable_get_leaf(mmu->pgt, tmp, &pte, NULL, 0))
goto again;
if (!(pte & PTE_VALID))
goto again;
--
2.55.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-25 16:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-25 16:00 [PATCH 0/8] KVM: arm64: Add KVM_PRE_FAULT_MEMORY support Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-08-25 16:00 ` [PATCH 1/8] KVM: arm64: Propagate and use esr in s2fd when handling guest aborts Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-08-25 16:00 ` [PATCH 2/8] KVM: arm64: Propagate and use mmu " Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-08-25 16:00 ` [PATCH 3/8] KVM: arm64: Propagate and use kvm_s2_fault_result on S2 fault Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-08-25 16:00 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) [this message]
2026-08-25 16:00 ` [PATCH 5/8] KVM: arm64: Implement KVM_PRE_FAULT_MEMORY Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-08-25 16:00 ` [PATCH 6/8] KVM: selftests: Enable pre_fault_memory_test for arm64 Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-08-25 16:00 ` [PATCH 7/8] KVM: selftests: Add option for different backing in pre-fault tests Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-08-25 16:00 ` [PATCH 8/8] KVM: selftests: Add nested pre-fault test for arm64 Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
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