Re: [PATCH v3 09/36] KVM: arm64: Ignore -EAGAIN when mapping in pages for the pKVM host
From: Fuad Tabba <tabba@google.com>
Date: 2026-03-11 10:11:36
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On Thu, 5 Mar 2026 at 14:44, Will Deacon [off-list ref] wrote:
If the host takes a stage-2 translation fault on two CPUs at the same time, one of them will get back -EAGAIN from the page-table mapping code when it runs into the mapping installed by the other.
I ran into this while porting the Android patches, and this patch fixed the issue. Thank you. Reviewed-by: Fuad Tabba <tabba@google.com> /fuad
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Rather than handle this explicitly in handle_host_mem_abort(), pass the new KVM_PGTABLE_WALK_IGNORE_EAGAIN flag to kvm_pgtable_stage2_map() from __host_stage2_idmap() and return -EEXIST if host_stage2_adjust_range() finds a valid pte. This will avoid having to test for -EAGAIN on the reclaim path in subsequent patches. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> --- arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/mem_protect.c | 21 ++++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/mem_protect.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/mem_protect.c index 38f66a56a766..7b0f8ad7b20f 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/mem_protect.c +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/mem_protect.c@@ -461,8 +461,15 @@ static bool range_is_memory(u64 start, u64 end) static inline int __host_stage2_idmap(u64 start, u64 end, enum kvm_pgtable_prot prot) { + /* + * We don't make permission changes to the host idmap after + * initialisation, so we can squash -EAGAIN to save callers + * having to treat it like success in the case that they try to + * map something that is already mapped. + */ return kvm_pgtable_stage2_map(&host_mmu.pgt, start, end - start, start, - prot, &host_s2_pool, 0); + prot, &host_s2_pool, + KVM_PGTABLE_WALK_IGNORE_EAGAIN); } /*@@ -504,7 +511,7 @@ static int host_stage2_adjust_range(u64 addr, struct kvm_mem_range *range) return ret; if (kvm_pte_valid(pte)) - return -EAGAIN; + return -EEXIST; if (pte) { WARN_ON(addr_is_memory(addr) &&@@ -609,7 +616,6 @@ void handle_host_mem_abort(struct kvm_cpu_context *host_ctxt) { struct kvm_vcpu_fault_info fault; u64 esr, addr; - int ret = 0; esr = read_sysreg_el2(SYS_ESR); if (!__get_fault_info(esr, &fault)) {@@ -628,8 +634,13 @@ void handle_host_mem_abort(struct kvm_cpu_context *host_ctxt) BUG_ON(!(fault.hpfar_el2 & HPFAR_EL2_NS)); addr = FIELD_GET(HPFAR_EL2_FIPA, fault.hpfar_el2) << 12; - ret = host_stage2_idmap(addr); - BUG_ON(ret && ret != -EAGAIN); + switch (host_stage2_idmap(addr)) { + case -EEXIST: + case 0: + break; + default: + BUG(); + } } struct check_walk_data { --2.53.0.473.g4a7958ca14-goog