Re: [RFC PATCH v2 18/18] DO NOT UPSTREAM: RISC-V: KVM: Workaround kvm_riscv_gstage_ioremap() bug

[Daniel Henrique Barboza <dbarboza@ventanamicro.com>]

Drew,

On 10/20/25 10:12 AM, fangyu.yu@linux.alibaba.com wrote:
>> Workaround a bug that breaks guest booting with device assignment that
>> was introduced with commit 9bca8be646e0 ("RISC-V: KVM: Fix pte settings
>> within kvm_riscv_gstage_ioremap()")
> 
> The root cause of the guest booting failure is that an HPA is obtained
> in the kvm_arch_prepare_memory_region.
> 
> Here [1] might be the correct fixes for this issue.
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/20251020130801.68356-1-fangyu.yu@linux.alibaba.com/T/#u

This patch fixes the issue we've been seeing with device assignment inside a
kvm guest. I suggest folding it into this series and dropping this workaround
patch in the next version.


Thanks,

Daniel


> 
>> ---
>> arch/riscv/kvm/mmu.c | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/riscv/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/riscv/kvm/mmu.c
>> index 525fb5a330c0..994f18b92143 100644
>> --- a/arch/riscv/kvm/mmu.c
>> +++ b/arch/riscv/kvm/mmu.c
>> @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ int kvm_riscv_mmu_ioremap(struct kvm *kvm, gpa_t gpa, phys_addr_t hpa,
>>
>> 	end = (gpa + size + PAGE_SIZE - 1) & PAGE_MASK;
>> 	pfn = __phys_to_pfn(hpa);
>> -	prot = pgprot_noncached(PAGE_WRITE);
>> +	prot = pgprot_noncached(__pgprot(_PAGE_PRESENT | _PAGE_ACCESSED | _PAGE_READ | _PAGE_WRITE));
>>
>> 	for (addr = gpa; addr < end; addr += PAGE_SIZE) {
>> 		map.addr = addr;
>> -- 
>> 2.49.0
> 
> Thanks,
> Fangyu
>