From: Jack Thomson <jackabt.amazon@gmail.com>
To: maz@kernel.org, oliver.upton@linux.dev, pbonzini@redhat.com
Cc: joey.gouly@arm.com, suzuki.poulose@arm.com, yuzenghui@huawei.com,
catalin.marinas@arm.com, will@kernel.org, shuah@kernel.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, kvmarm@lists.linux.dev,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
isaku.yamahata@intel.com, roypat@amazon.co.uk,
kalyazin@amazon.co.uk, jackabt@amazon.com
Subject: [PATCH 2/6] KVM: arm64: Add KVM_PGTABLE_WALK_PRE_FAULT walk flag
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2025 14:46:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250911134648.58945-3-jackabt.amazon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250911134648.58945-1-jackabt.amazon@gmail.com>
From: Jack Thomson <jackabt@amazon.com>
Don't return -EAGAIN from stage2_map_walker_try_leaf during
KVM_PRE_FAULT_MEMORY.
During pre-faults, user_abort() is retried upon returning -EAGAIN,
meaning the ioctl would get stuck in an infinite loop if userspace
tries to pre-fault already existing mappings
Signed-off-by: Jack Thomson <jackabt@amazon.com>
---
arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pgtable.h | 3 +++
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c | 6 +++++-
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pgtable.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pgtable.h
index 2888b5d03757..0789671d1c4f 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pgtable.h
@@ -296,6 +296,8 @@ typedef bool (*kvm_pgtable_force_pte_cb_t)(u64 addr, u64 end,
* @KVM_PGTABLE_WALK_SKIP_CMO: Visit and update table entries
* without Cache maintenance
* operations required.
+ * @KVM_PGTABLE_WALK_PRE_FAULT Indicates the page-table walk was
+ * invoked from a pre-fault request.
*/
enum kvm_pgtable_walk_flags {
KVM_PGTABLE_WALK_LEAF = BIT(0),
@@ -305,6 +307,7 @@ enum kvm_pgtable_walk_flags {
KVM_PGTABLE_WALK_HANDLE_FAULT = BIT(4),
KVM_PGTABLE_WALK_SKIP_BBM_TLBI = BIT(5),
KVM_PGTABLE_WALK_SKIP_CMO = BIT(6),
+ KVM_PGTABLE_WALK_PRE_FAULT = BIT(7),
};
struct kvm_pgtable_visit_ctx {
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c
index c351b4abd5db..140dccec2c5b 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c
@@ -914,9 +914,13 @@ static int stage2_map_walker_try_leaf(const struct kvm_pgtable_visit_ctx *ctx,
* same mapping or only change the access permissions. Instead,
* the vCPU will exit one more time from guest if still needed
* and then go through the path of relaxing permissions.
+ *
+ * When walking in the context of a pre-fault request, if the
+ * mapping already exists we can return 0, as there's nothing
+ * to do.
*/
if (!stage2_pte_needs_update(ctx->old, new))
- return -EAGAIN;
+ return (ctx->flags & KVM_PGTABLE_WALK_PRE_FAULT) ? 0 : -EAGAIN;
/* If we're only changing software bits, then store them and go! */
if (!kvm_pgtable_walk_shared(ctx) &&
--
2.43.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-09-11 13:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-09-11 13:46 [PATCH 0/6] KVM ARM64 pre_fault_memory Jack Thomson
2025-09-11 13:46 ` [PATCH 1/6] KVM: arm64: Add __gmem_abort and __user_mem_abort Jack Thomson
2025-09-11 18:27 ` Oliver Upton
2025-09-11 13:46 ` Jack Thomson [this message]
2025-09-11 13:46 ` [PATCH 3/6] KVM: arm64: Add pre_fault_memory implementation Jack Thomson
2025-09-11 18:42 ` Oliver Upton
2025-09-29 13:59 ` Thomson, Jack
2025-09-30 0:53 ` Oliver Upton
2025-09-11 13:46 ` [PATCH 4/6] KVM: selftests: Fix unaligned mmap allocations Jack Thomson
2025-09-11 13:46 ` [PATCH 5/6] KVM: selftests: Enable pre_fault_memory_test for arm64 Jack Thomson
2025-09-11 13:46 ` [PATCH 6/6] KVM: selftests: Add option for different backing in pre-fault tests Jack Thomson
2025-09-11 18:56 ` [PATCH 0/6] KVM ARM64 pre_fault_memory Oliver Upton
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