From: Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter@gmail.com>
To: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>, Oliver Upton <oupton@kernel.org>,
kvmarm@lists.linux.dev
Cc: Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter@gmail.com>,
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>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>, Eric Auger <eric.auger@redhat.com>,
Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@arm.com>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 3/5] KVM: arm64: vgic-v3: Unregister redistributors before freeing regions
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:42:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260819224229.82948-4-kmehltretter@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260819224229.82948-1-kmehltretter@gmail.com>
vgic_unregister_redist_iodev() uses rdreg to return its region slot. During
VM teardown, kvm_vgic_destroy() frees the regions before unregistering
their iodevs, so vgic_v3_free_redist_region() must first clear every rdreg
pointer.
Unregister the iodevs before kvm_vgic_dist_destroy(), while the regions are
still alive. Temporarily drop config_lock because
vgic_unregister_redist_iodev() takes it; slots_lock remains held for the
MMIO bus updates. The region destructor no longer needs the vCPU scan.
Suggested-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5.6-sol
Signed-off-by: Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter@gmail.com>
---
arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-init.c | 11 +++++++----
arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-mmio-v3.c | 9 ---------
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-init.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-init.c
index 0a3df6d3a691..df6d0bdda4a9 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-init.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-init.c
@@ -570,14 +570,17 @@ void kvm_vgic_destroy(struct kvm *kvm)
kvm_for_each_vcpu(i, vcpu, kvm)
__kvm_vgic_vcpu_destroy(vcpu);
+ if (kvm->arch.vgic.vgic_model == KVM_DEV_TYPE_ARM_VGIC_V3) {
+ mutex_unlock(&kvm->arch.config_lock);
+ kvm_for_each_vcpu(i, vcpu, kvm)
+ vgic_unregister_redist_iodev(vcpu);
+ mutex_lock(&kvm->arch.config_lock);
+ }
+
kvm_vgic_dist_destroy(kvm);
mutex_unlock(&kvm->arch.config_lock);
- if (kvm->arch.vgic.vgic_model == KVM_DEV_TYPE_ARM_VGIC_V3)
- kvm_for_each_vcpu(i, vcpu, kvm)
- vgic_unregister_redist_iodev(vcpu);
-
mutex_unlock(&kvm->slots_lock);
}
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-mmio-v3.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-mmio-v3.c
index 331d203acb43..77a611564f8e 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-mmio-v3.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/vgic/vgic-mmio-v3.c
@@ -967,17 +967,8 @@ static int vgic_v3_alloc_redist_region(struct kvm *kvm, uint32_t index,
void vgic_v3_free_redist_region(struct kvm *kvm, struct vgic_redist_region *rdreg)
{
- struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu;
- unsigned long c;
-
lockdep_assert_held(&kvm->arch.config_lock);
- /* Garbage collect the region */
- kvm_for_each_vcpu(c, vcpu, kvm) {
- if (vcpu->arch.vgic_cpu.rdreg == rdreg)
- vcpu->arch.vgic_cpu.rdreg = NULL;
- }
-
list_del(&rdreg->list);
kfree(rdreg);
}
--
2.39.5 (Apple Git-154)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-19 22:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-19 22:42 [PATCH v2 0/5] KVM: arm64: fix VGICv3 redistributor rollback Karl Mehltretter
2026-08-19 22:42 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] KVM: arm64: vgic-v3: Undo assignment on iodev registration failure Karl Mehltretter
2026-08-19 22:54 ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-19 22:42 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] KVM: arm64: vgic-v3: Reset assignments after failed region setup Karl Mehltretter
2026-08-19 22:58 ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-19 22:42 ` Karl Mehltretter [this message]
2026-08-20 8:58 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] KVM: arm64: vgic-v3: Unregister redistributors before freeing regions Marc Zyngier
2026-08-21 19:09 ` Karl Mehltretter
2026-08-22 8:40 ` Marc Zyngier
2026-08-19 22:42 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] KVM: arm64: selftests: Pass guest code to vm_gic_create_with_vcpus() Karl Mehltretter
2026-08-19 22:50 ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-19 22:42 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] KVM: arm64: selftests: Test VGICv3 redistributor region retry Karl Mehltretter
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