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Peter Anvin" , Shuah Khan , Shuah Khan , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvmarm@lists.linux.dev, kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, Jack Thomson , Jack Thomson , Alexandru Elisei , Vincent Donnefort , "Aneesh Kumar K.V" , Claudio Imbrenda , Leo Soares Passos , Wei-Lin Chang , linux-s390@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-CRM114-Version: 20100106-BlameMichelson ( TRE 0.9.0 (BSD) ) MR-646709E3 X-CRM114-CacheID: sfid-20260923_102959_798551_78279E4C X-CRM114-Status: GOOD ( 16.42 ) X-BeenThere: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: "linux-arm-kernel" Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+linux-arm-kernel=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org On Wed, Sep 23, 2026, Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) wrote: > All existing architectures which implement KVM pre-fault (x86, s390) have > mechanisms for disallowing pre-faulting. > > Currently these are open coded as part of kvm_arch_vcpu_pre_fault_memory(). > > Formalise this by moving them into a new kvm_arch_pre_fault_allowed() hook, > which every architecture selecting CONFIG_KVM_GENERIC_PRE_FAULT_MEMORY must > implement, returning an error code if the operation is disallowed or 0 > otherwise. > > The hook is called early in the generic code, allowing architectures to > disallow the operation prior to vCPU load. > > This is important, as kvm_vcpu_pre_fault_memory() is the only place where > generic code can call vcpu_load() on a vCPU that has not yet been > initialised. > > This lays the foundation for a future change which implements pre-faulting > for arm64 which needs to disallow the mechanism for uninitialised vCPUs. > > Suggested-by: Oliver Upton > Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) > --- Acked-by: Sean Christopherson