[PATCH v5 03/15] KVM: arm64: Introduce a dedicated walker for stage2 write-protect
From: Tian Zheng <hidden>
Date: 2026-09-29 10:37:07
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kvm, kvmarm, linux-doc, linux-kselftest, lkml
Subsystem:
arm64 port (aarch64 architecture), kernel virtual machine for arm64 (kvm/arm64), the rest · Maintainers:
Catalin Marinas, Will Deacon, Marc Zyngier, Oliver Upton, Linus Torvalds
From: Leonardo Bras <redacted> The new walker cleans the dirty bit on leaf entries, as well as clean the DBM bit in blocks so it still faults for lazy hugepage splitting when we enable FEAT_HDBSS in future patches. With disabled HDBSS, there should be no change in faulting behavior. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260901171558.2674031-4-leo.bras@arm.com/ (local) Signed-off-by: Leonardo Bras <redacted> Signed-off-by: Tian Zheng <redacted> --- arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c
index 357b06648418..aa0448d3a6a4 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c@@ -1293,12 +1293,34 @@ static int stage2_update_leaf_attrs(struct kvm_pgtable *pgt, u64 addr, return 0; } +static int stage2_wrprotect_walker(const struct kvm_pgtable_visit_ctx *ctx, + enum kvm_pgtable_walk_flags visit) +{ + kvm_pte_t new = ctx->old & ~KVM_PTE_LEAF_ATTR_LO_S2_S2AP_W; + + /* We remove DBM on blocks so they can fault and get split */ + if (ctx->level < KVM_PGTABLE_LAST_LEVEL) + new &= ~KVM_PTE_LEAF_ATTR_HI_S2_DBM; + + /* + * We may race with the CPU trying to set the access flag here, + * but worst-case the access flag update gets lost and will be + * set on the next access instead. + */ + if (kvm_pte_valid(ctx->old) && ctx->old != new) + WRITE_ONCE(*ctx->ptep, new); + + return 0; +} + 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_LO_S2_S2AP_W, - NULL, NULL, - KVM_PGTABLE_WALK_IGNORE_EAGAIN); + struct kvm_pgtable_walker walker = { + .cb = stage2_wrprotect_walker, + .flags = KVM_PGTABLE_WALK_LEAF, + }; + + return kvm_pgtable_walk(pgt, addr, size, &walker); } void kvm_pgtable_stage2_mkyoung(struct kvm_pgtable *pgt, u64 addr, --
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