pKVM breakage in mainline on n1sdp
From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Date: 2026-02-20 19:09:13
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Hi, At some point since the 30th of January we have started seeing issues in mainline when running kvm-unit-tests on N1SDP in pKVM mode: TESTNAME=pmu-mem-access TIMEOUT=90s MACHINE= ACCEL= ./arm/run arm/pmu.flat -smp 1 -append 'pmu-mem-access' <4>[ 114.487201] ------------[ cut here ]------------ <4>[ 114.487206] WARNING: arch/arm64/kvm/pkvm.c:393 at pkvm_pgtable_stage2_map+0x1ac/0x1c4, CPU#1: qemu-system-aar/1955 <4>[ 114.502672] Modules linked in: stm_p_basic coresight_tpiu coresight_stm stm_core arm_spe_pmu coresight_funnel coresight_tmc coresight_replicator coresight arm_cmn sha256 cfg80211 rfkill fuse dm_mod ipv6 <4>[ 114.520924] CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 1955 Comm: qemu-system-aar Not tainted 6.19.0 #1 PREEMPT <4>[ 114.529261] pstate: 40400005 (nZcv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--) <4>[ 114.536469] pc : pkvm_pgtable_stage2_map+0x1ac/0x1c4 <4>[ 114.541681] lr : pkvm_pgtable_stage2_map+0x58/0x1c4 <4>[ 114.546805] sp : ffff80008673b900 <4>[ 114.550366] x29: ffff80008673b900 x28: 0000000000200000 x27: 0000000000200000 <4>[ 114.557748] x26: 0000000000000000 x25: 00000000fffffff4 x24: 000000000000000f <4>[ 114.565130] x23: ffff008047b65198 x22: 00000000080cbc00 x21: 0000000000040000 <4>[ 114.572512] x20: ffff008046f65680 x19: 0000000000000200 x18: 0000000000000001 <4>[ 114.579893] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000 x15: 0000000000000000 <4>[ 114.587275] x14: 0000000000000002 x13: 0000000000000002 x12: 000000000031bf68 <4>[ 114.594656] x11: 0000000000000000 x10: 0000ffff8be01000 x9 : ffff8000800728b0 <4>[ 114.602037] x8 : ffff80008673bab8 x7 : 0000000000000001 x6 : 0000000000000008 <4>[ 114.609419] x5 : 0000000040200000 x4 : 000000000000000f x3 : 0000000000000200 <4>[ 114.616800] x2 : 0000000000040000 x1 : fffffffffffffff4 x0 : 0000000000000000 <4>[ 114.624182] Call trace: <4>[ 114.626875] pkvm_pgtable_stage2_map+0x1ac/0x1c4 (P) <4>[ 114.632088] kvm_handle_guest_abort+0xe7c/0x12ec <4>[ 114.636953] handle_exit+0x60/0x184 <4>[ 114.640689] kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x35c/0x968 <4>[ 114.645554] kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x254/0xa50 <4>[ 114.649638] __arm64_sys_ioctl+0xac/0x104 <4>[ 114.653896] invoke_syscall+0x48/0x110 <4>[ 114.657894] el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x40/0xe0 <4>[ 114.662846] do_el0_svc+0x1c/0x28 <4>[ 114.666409] el0_svc+0x34/0x10c <4>[ 114.669798] el0t_64_sync_handler+0xa0/0xe4 <4>[ 114.674228] el0t_64_sync+0x198/0x19c <4>[ 114.678137] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- The same tests running on N1SDP in VHE mode seem happy, and I've not seen any other platforms showing issues. Unfortunately due to various infrastructure issues I don't have more detail on when this started happening or anything, I'll update if I get more. Thanks Mark
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