From: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
To: kvmarm@lists.linux.dev
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>, Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>,
Oliver Upton <oupton@kernel.org>, Joey Gouly <joey.gouly@arm.com>,
Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>,
Zenghui Yu <yuzenghui@huawei.com>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Quentin Perret <qperret@google.com>,
Fuad Tabba <tabba@google.com>,
Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>,
Mostafa Saleh <smostafa@google.com>,
Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei@arm.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] KVM: arm64: Allow get_pkvm_hyp_vm() to take a reference to a dying VM
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:50:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260331155056.28220-3-will@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260331155056.28220-1-will@kernel.org>
Now that completion of the teardown path requires a refcount of zero for
the target VM, we can allow get_pkvm_hyp_vm() to take a reference on a
dying VM, which is necessary to unshare pages with a non-protected VM
during the teardown process itself.
Note that vCPUs belonging to a dying VM cannot be loaded and pages can
only be reclaimed from a protected VM (via
__pkvm_reclaim_dying_guest_page()) if the target VM is in the dying
state.
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
---
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/pkvm.c | 8 +-------
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/pkvm.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/pkvm.c
index 3fd3b930beeb..b955da0e50bc 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/pkvm.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/pkvm.c
@@ -309,14 +309,8 @@ struct pkvm_hyp_vm *get_pkvm_hyp_vm(pkvm_handle_t handle)
hyp_spin_lock(&vm_table_lock);
hyp_vm = get_vm_by_handle(handle);
- if (!hyp_vm)
- goto unlock;
-
- if (hyp_vm->kvm.arch.pkvm.is_dying)
- hyp_vm = NULL;
- else
+ if (hyp_vm)
hyp_page_ref_inc(hyp_virt_to_page(hyp_vm));
-unlock:
hyp_spin_unlock(&vm_table_lock);
return hyp_vm;
--
2.53.0.1118.gaef5881109-goog
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-31 15:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-31 15:50 [PATCH 0/3] KVM: arm64: Fix teardown of non-protected VMs with pKVM Will Deacon
2026-03-31 15:50 ` [PATCH 1/3] KVM: arm64: Prevent teardown finalisation of referenced 'hyp_vm' Will Deacon
2026-03-31 15:50 ` Will Deacon [this message]
2026-03-31 15:50 ` [PATCH 3/3] KVM: arm64: Don't hold 'vm_table_lock' across guest page reclaim Will Deacon
2026-04-01 13:33 ` [PATCH 0/3] KVM: arm64: Fix teardown of non-protected VMs with pKVM Mark Brown
2026-04-01 15:29 ` Marc Zyngier
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