From: Kim Mankyum via B4 Relay <devnull+mankyum.kim.samsung.com@kernel.org>
To: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>, Oliver Upton <oupton@kernel.org>,
Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Fuad Tabba <fuad.tabba@linux.dev>,
Andrew Walbran <qwandor@google.com>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, kvmarm@lists.linux.dev,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Kim Mankyum <mankyum.kim@samsung.com>
Subject: [PATCH] KVM: arm64: Allow smaller FF-A RX/TX buffers
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2026 14:42:31 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260820-master-v1-1-ea602b6d3860@samsung.com> (raw)
From: Kim Mankyum <mankyum.kim@samsung.com>
pKVM currently requires the host to map PAGE_SIZE worth of RX/TX
buffers, as do_ffa_rxtx_map() requires the FF-A page count to match
the capacity of the hypervisor RX/TX buffers.
This is unnecessarily restrictive when the kernel page size is larger
than the minimum RX/TX buffer size advertised by the SPMC. For
example, with a 16K kernel and an SPMC advertising a minimum RX/TX
buffer size of 4K, a host request with a page count of one is rejected
by pKVM.
hyp_ffa_post_init() already allows an SPMC whose minimum RX/TX buffer
size is smaller than PAGE_SIZE, and the page count supplied by the host
is forwarded unchanged when mapping the hypervisor buffers into the
SPMC.
Allow RX/TX buffers smaller than the capacity of the hypervisor buffers
while continuing to reject requests which exceed it.
Fixes: 9d0c6a9af9e3 ("KVM: arm64: Handle FFA_RXTX_MAP and FFA_RXTX_UNMAP calls from the host")
Signed-off-by: Kim Mankyum <mankyum.kim@samsung.com>
---
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/ffa.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/ffa.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/ffa.c
index a327c2bbb6b6..594d1112b5f9 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/ffa.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/ffa.c
@@ -239,7 +239,8 @@ static void do_ffa_rxtx_map(struct arm_smccc_1_2_regs *res,
int ret = 0;
void *rx_virt, *tx_virt;
- if (npages != (KVM_FFA_MBOX_NR_PAGES * PAGE_SIZE) / FFA_PAGE_SIZE) {
+ if (!npages ||
+ npages > (KVM_FFA_MBOX_NR_PAGES * PAGE_SIZE) / FFA_PAGE_SIZE) {
ret = FFA_RET_INVALID_PARAMETERS;
goto out;
}
---
base-commit: cb8a75eec0877810b50aa1c5a833f929525cd2ee
change-id: 20260820-master-572418a358ab
Best regards,
--
Kim Mankyum <mankyum.kim@samsung.com>
next reply other threads:[~2026-08-20 5:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-20 5:42 Kim Mankyum via B4 Relay [this message]
2026-08-20 8:30 ` [PATCH] KVM: arm64: Allow smaller FF-A RX/TX buffers Marc Zyngier
2026-08-20 13:25 ` Sebastian Ene
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