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From: Tian Zheng <zhengtian10@huawei.com>
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Subject: [PATCH v5 01/15] KVM: arm64: pgtables: Change write bit from S2AP_W to DBM
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2026 18:36:41 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260929103655.85107-2-zhengtian10@huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260929103655.85107-1-zhengtian10@huawei.com>

From: Leonardo Bras <leo.bras@arm.com>

As a first step of changing the encoding for the Stage2 PTE descriptor,
introduce the DBM bit, and adapt every usage of writable to use the DBM
bit (51) instead of S2AP[1]/Dirty bit (7).

With DBM as the write permission bit and S2AP[1] as the dirty state,
the encoding follows the FEAT_S2PIE principle of managing permissions
and dirty state independently.

For this step, we convert usages of RW(Dirty) -> WD(DBM|Dirty): every
writable mapping sets both bits, read-only mappings clear both, and no
behaviour changes.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260901171558.2674031-2-leo.bras@arm.com/
Signed-off-by: Leonardo Bras <leo.bras@arm.com>
[zhengtian: keep the nested walker reading writability from S2AP[1]
alone, document why, and reword the commit message]
Signed-off-by: Tian Zheng <zhengtian10@huawei.com>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pgtable.h | 3 +++
 arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c         | 7 ++++---
 arch/arm64/kvm/nested.c              | 5 +++++
 arch/arm64/kvm/ptdump.c              | 4 ++--
 4 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pgtable.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pgtable.h
index 41a8687938eb..37baa86d6fd8 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pgtable.h
@@ -93,10 +93,13 @@ typedef u64 kvm_pte_t;

 #define KVM_PTE_LEAF_ATTR_HI_S2_XN	GENMASK(54, 53)

+#define KVM_PTE_LEAF_ATTR_HI_S2_DBM	BIT(51)
+
 #define KVM_PTE_LEAF_ATTR_HI_S1_GP	BIT(50)

 #define KVM_PTE_LEAF_ATTR_S2_PERMS	(KVM_PTE_LEAF_ATTR_LO_S2_S2AP_R | \
 					 KVM_PTE_LEAF_ATTR_LO_S2_S2AP_W | \
+					 KVM_PTE_LEAF_ATTR_HI_S2_DBM | \
 					 KVM_PTE_LEAF_ATTR_HI_S2_XN)

 /* pKVM invalid pte encodings */
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c
index b74dd5ce1efd..50f4d3a74f77 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c
@@ -732,7 +732,7 @@ static int stage2_set_prot_attr(struct kvm_pgtable *pgt, enum kvm_pgtable_prot p
 		attr |= KVM_PTE_LEAF_ATTR_LO_S2_S2AP_R;

 	if (prot & KVM_PGTABLE_PROT_W)
-		attr |= KVM_PTE_LEAF_ATTR_LO_S2_S2AP_W;
+		attr |= KVM_PTE_LEAF_ATTR_HI_S2_DBM | KVM_PTE_LEAF_ATTR_LO_S2_S2AP_W;

 	if (!kvm_lpa2_is_enabled())
 		attr |= FIELD_PREP(KVM_PTE_LEAF_ATTR_LO_S2_SH, sh);
@@ -753,7 +753,7 @@ enum kvm_pgtable_prot kvm_pgtable_stage2_pte_prot(kvm_pte_t pte)

 	if (pte & KVM_PTE_LEAF_ATTR_LO_S2_S2AP_R)
 		prot |= KVM_PGTABLE_PROT_R;
-	if (pte & KVM_PTE_LEAF_ATTR_LO_S2_S2AP_W)
+	if (pte & KVM_PTE_LEAF_ATTR_HI_S2_DBM)
 		prot |= KVM_PGTABLE_PROT_W;

 	switch (FIELD_GET(KVM_PTE_LEAF_ATTR_HI_S2_XN, pte)) {
@@ -1288,6 +1288,7 @@ static int stage2_update_leaf_attrs(struct kvm_pgtable *pgt, u64 addr,
 int kvm_pgtable_stage2_wrprotect(struct kvm_pgtable *pgt, u64 addr, u64 size)
 {
 	return stage2_update_leaf_attrs(pgt, addr, size, 0,
+					KVM_PTE_LEAF_ATTR_HI_S2_DBM |
 					KVM_PTE_LEAF_ATTR_LO_S2_S2AP_W,
 					NULL, NULL,
 					KVM_PGTABLE_WALK_IGNORE_EAGAIN);
@@ -1368,7 +1369,7 @@ int kvm_pgtable_stage2_relax_perms(struct kvm_pgtable *pgt, u64 addr,
 		set |= KVM_PTE_LEAF_ATTR_LO_S2_S2AP_R;

 	if (prot & KVM_PGTABLE_PROT_W)
-		set |= KVM_PTE_LEAF_ATTR_LO_S2_S2AP_W;
+		set |= KVM_PTE_LEAF_ATTR_HI_S2_DBM | KVM_PTE_LEAF_ATTR_LO_S2_S2AP_W;

 	if (prot & KVM_PGTABLE_PROT_X) {
 		ret = stage2_set_xn_attr(prot, &xn);
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/nested.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/nested.c
index b191365d97cc..4d7f52f4bc09 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/nested.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/nested.c
@@ -388,6 +388,11 @@ static int walk_nested_s2_pgd(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, phys_addr_t ipa,
 		(ipa & GENMASK_ULL(addr_bottom - 1, 0));
 	out->output = paddr;
 	out->block_size = 1UL << ((3 - level) * stride + wi->pgshift);
+	/*
+	 * L1 descriptors keep the legacy encoding: S2AP[1] is the write
+	 * permission, and DBM is RES0 (the L1-visible HAFDBS is limited
+	 * to AF-only).
+	 */
 	out->readable = desc & KVM_PTE_LEAF_ATTR_LO_S2_S2AP_R;
 	out->writable = desc & KVM_PTE_LEAF_ATTR_LO_S2_S2AP_W;
 	out->level = level;
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/ptdump.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/ptdump.c
index 69899797dbad..b0cb8d84a9e9 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/ptdump.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/ptdump.c
@@ -40,8 +40,8 @@ static const struct ptdump_prot_bits stage2_pte_bits[] = {
 		.clear	= " ",
 	},
 	{
-		.mask	= KVM_PTE_LEAF_ATTR_LO_S2_S2AP_W,
-		.val	= KVM_PTE_LEAF_ATTR_LO_S2_S2AP_W,
+		.mask	= KVM_PTE_LEAF_ATTR_HI_S2_DBM,
+		.val	= KVM_PTE_LEAF_ATTR_HI_S2_DBM,
 		.set	= "W",
 		.clear	= " ",
 	},
--
2.43.0


  reply	other threads:[~2026-09-29 10:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-29 10:36 [PATCH v5 00/15] KVM: arm64: FEAT_HDBSS support for stage-2 dirty tracking Tian Zheng
2026-09-29 10:36 ` Tian Zheng [this message]
2026-09-30  0:25   ` [PATCH v5 01/15] KVM: arm64: pgtables: Change write bit from S2AP_W to DBM Oliver Upton
2026-09-30  2:44     ` Tian Zheng
2026-09-29 10:36 ` [PATCH v5 02/15] KVM: arm64: Add KVM_PGTABLE_PROT_DIRTY Tian Zheng
2026-09-30  0:35   ` Oliver Upton
2026-09-30  2:57     ` Tian Zheng
2026-09-29 10:36 ` [PATCH v5 03/15] KVM: arm64: Introduce a dedicated walker for stage2 write-protect Tian Zheng
2026-09-29 10:36 ` [PATCH v5 04/15] KVM: arm64: Add KVM_REQ_RELOAD_STAGE2 Tian Zheng
2026-09-29 10:36 ` [PATCH v5 05/15] KVM: arm64: Harvest stage-2 dirty state into the host folio account Tian Zheng
2026-09-29 10:36 ` [PATCH v5 06/15] KVM: arm64: Add support for FEAT_HDBSS Tian Zheng
2026-09-29 10:36 ` [PATCH v5 07/15] KVM: arm64: Add HDBSS per-vCPU buffer management Tian Zheng
2026-09-29 10:36 ` [PATCH v5 08/15] KVM: arm64: Flush the HDBSS buffer on VM exit Tian Zheng
2026-09-29 10:36 ` [PATCH v5 09/15] KVM: arm64: Handle HDBSS faults Tian Zheng
2026-09-29 10:36 ` [PATCH v5 10/15] KVM: Add kvm_arch_dirty_ring_size_updated() hook Tian Zheng
2026-09-29 10:36 ` [PATCH v5 11/15] KVM: arm64: Reserve dirty ring space for the HDBSS buffer Tian Zheng
2026-09-29 10:36 ` [PATCH v5 12/15] KVM: arm64: Derive the VM hardware dirty mode from dirty logging Tian Zheng
2026-09-29 10:36 ` [PATCH v5 13/15] KVM: arm64: Add HDBSS buffer size ioctl for dirty-bitmap mode Tian Zheng
2026-09-29 10:36 ` [PATCH v5 14/15] KVM: arm64: Document HDBSS buffer size ioctl Tian Zheng
2026-09-29 10:36 ` [PATCH v5 15/15] KVM: arm64: selftests: Add HDBSS buffer size ioctl interface test Tian Zheng

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