Re: [PATCH v3 15/23] KVM: s390: Add helper functions for fault handling

[Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>]

On Thu, Nov 06, 2025 at 05:11:09PM +0100, Claudio Imbrenda wrote:
> Add some helper functions for handling multiple guest faults at the
> same time.
> 
> This will be needed for VSIE, where a nested guest access also needs to
> access all the page tables that map it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>
> ---
>  arch/s390/include/asm/kvm_host.h |   1 +
>  arch/s390/kvm/Makefile           |   2 +-
>  arch/s390/kvm/faultin.c          | 148 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  arch/s390/kvm/faultin.h          |  92 +++++++++++++++++++
>  arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c         |   2 +-
>  arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.h         |   2 +
>  6 files changed, 245 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 arch/s390/kvm/faultin.c
>  create mode 100644 arch/s390/kvm/faultin.h

...

> +int kvm_s390_faultin_gfn(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm *kvm, struct guest_fault *f)
> +{

...

> +		scoped_guard(read_lock, &kvm->mmu_lock) {
> +			if (!mmu_invalidate_retry_gfn(kvm, inv_seq, f->gfn)) {
> +				f->valid = true;
> +				rc = gmap_link(mc, kvm->arch.gmap, f);
> +				kvm_release_faultin_page(kvm, f->page, !!rc, f->write_attempt);
> +				f->page = NULL;
> +			}
> +		}
> +		kvm_release_faultin_page(kvm, f->page, true, false);
> +
> +		if (rc == -ENOMEM) {
> +			rc = kvm_s390_mmu_cache_topup(mc);

If I'm not mistaken then gmap_link() -> dat_link() maps the possible -ENOMEM
return value of dat_entry() to -EAGAIN. So the case where -ENOMEM leads to a
kvm_s390_mmu_cache_topup() call will never happen.