[PATCH v5 12/15] KVM: arm64: Derive the VM hardware dirty mode from dirty logging
From: Tian Zheng <hidden>
Date: 2026-09-29 10:37:18
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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
Both HAFDBS and HDBSS flip VTCR_EL2.HD at memslot-update time. Two
independent toggles allow an intermediate HDBSS-set/HD-clear state,
an illegal combination, and need locking against concurrent updates.
Replace both with kvm_arch_update_hw_dirty_mode(), a pure function
of the static capabilities and the number of logging memslots:
- logging && HDBSS-capable -> HD|HA|HDBSS
- logging, no HDBSS -> off
- !logging && HAFDBS-cap. -> HD|HA
Recomputing rather than toggling needs no locking against racing
writers, and a vCPU created mid-migration inherits the current mode
from the shared VTCR at its first vcpu_load().
The HAFDBS leg is not gated on nested virtualization: shadow MMUs
build their own VTCR without HD, and the L1-visible HAFDBS ID is
capped at AF-only. The HDBSS leg stays gated for now, as the nested
exit-flush and harvest paths are unaudited.
kvm_s2_fault_compute_prot() consults the live HD state of the target
MMU rather than the canonical VTCR, so a nested read fault does not
install a writable-clean shadow entry, which is read-only under the
HD-less shadow VTCR.
The mode switch issues one KVM_REQ_RELOAD_STAGE2 followed by a
VMID-wide TLB invalidation, as the request only reloads VTCR_EL2 and
cached translations outlive the old mode. HA is always set together
with HD, as FEAT_HDBSS requires VTCR_EL2.{HDBSS,HA,HD}.
Also factor kvm_has_nv() out of vcpu_has_nv() for the VM-level HDBSS
check.
This is a rework of Leonardo Bras' "Enable HAFDBS for guests not on
migration".
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260901171558.2674031-6-leo.bras@arm.com/ (local)
Signed-off-by: Tian Zheng <redacted>
---
arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h | 18 ++++++++++
arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_nested.h | 9 +++--
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c | 14 ++++++--
arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c | 56 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
4 files changed, 91 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h
index 6eae7e7e2a68..24407194444a 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h@@ -390,6 +390,24 @@ static inline bool kvm_supports_cacheable_pfnmap(void) cpus_have_final_cap(ARM64_HAS_CACHE_DIC); } +static inline bool kvm_supports_hafdbs(void) +{ + return IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARM64_HW_AFDBM) && has_vhe() && + cpus_have_final_cap(ARM64_HW_DBM); +} + +static inline bool kvm_supports_hdbss(struct kvm *kvm) +{ + return system_supports_hdbss() && !kvm_has_nv(kvm); +} + +void kvm_arch_update_hw_dirty_mode(struct kvm *kvm); + +static inline bool kvm_hw_dirty_enabled(struct kvm_s2_mmu *mmu) +{ + return mmu->vtcr & VTCR_EL2_HD; +} + #ifdef CONFIG_PTDUMP_STAGE2_DEBUGFS void kvm_s2_ptdump_create_debugfs(struct kvm *kvm); void kvm_nested_s2_ptdump_create_debugfs(struct kvm_s2_mmu *mmu);
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_nested.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_nested.h
index 586026e85903..6226b330d7c8 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_nested.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_nested.h@@ -7,11 +7,16 @@ #include <asm/kvm_emulate.h> #include <asm/kvm_pgtable.h> -static inline bool vcpu_has_nv(const struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) +static inline bool kvm_has_nv(const struct kvm *kvm) { return (!__is_defined(__KVM_NVHE_HYPERVISOR__) && cpus_have_final_cap(ARM64_HAS_NESTED_VIRT) && - vcpu_has_feature(vcpu, KVM_ARM_VCPU_HAS_EL2)); + kvm_vcpu_has_feature(kvm, KVM_ARM_VCPU_HAS_EL2)); +} + +static inline bool vcpu_has_nv(const struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) +{ + return kvm_has_nv(vcpu->kvm); } /* Translation helpers from non-VHE EL2 to EL1 */
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c
index 9dde7e779699..0472edcb63b9 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c@@ -1313,9 +1313,17 @@ static int stage2_wrprotect_walker(const struct kvm_pgtable_visit_ctx *ctx, ctx->mm_ops->mark_page_dirty(kvm_pte_to_phys(ctx->old)); /* - * 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. + * The plain WRITE_ONCE races with hardware updates; both are + * benign. + * + * AF: the update may be lost, and is set on the next access. + * + * Dirty state: we only rewrite entries whose old value had S2AP[1] + * set, while hardware only promotes entries with S2AP[1] clear, so + * the two never touch the same entry. The one overlap is DBM removal + * on writable-clean blocks: a racing promotion is demoted back to + * read-only, but the write is still recorded in the HDBSS buffer and + * the folio was marked dirty at fault-in, so nothing is lost. */ if (kvm_pte_valid(ctx->old) && ctx->old != new) WRITE_ONCE(*ctx->ptep, new);
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
index c1e09ba98d48..17786453c004 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c@@ -2022,7 +2022,19 @@ static int kvm_s2_fault_compute_prot(const struct kvm_s2_fault_desc *s2fd, if (s2vi->map_writable) { *prot |= KVM_PGTABLE_PROT_W; - if (s2vi->device || !memslot_is_logging(s2fd->memslot) || + /* + * Check the live HD state of the MMU being installed + * into, not the static capability: HD is off for the + * whole VM as soon as any memslot logs, and under HD=0 a + * writable-clean entry behaves as read-only, costing an + * extra permission fault per page. Shadow MMUs never + * carry HD, so nested installs are always writable-dirty. + * A racing flip is benign: at worst one page takes one + * extra fault. + */ + if (s2vi->device || + !(memslot_is_logging(s2fd->memslot) || + kvm_hw_dirty_enabled(s2fd->vcpu->arch.hw_mmu)) || kvm_is_write_fault(s2fd->vcpu)) *prot |= KVM_PGTABLE_PROT_DIRTY; }
@@ -2617,6 +2629,45 @@ int __init kvm_mmu_init(u32 hyp_va_bits) return err; } +/* + * The VM's hardware dirty-management mode is a derived value, a pure + * function of the static capabilities and the number of logging + * memslots, so recomputing it on every event cannot lose an update + * and needs no locking against racing writers: + * + * logging && HDBSS-capable -> HD|HA|HDBSS (hardware tracking) + * logging, no HDBSS -> off (write-protect faults) + * !logging && HAFDBS-cap. -> HD|HA (only written pages go dirty) + */ +void kvm_arch_update_hw_dirty_mode(struct kvm *kvm) +{ + unsigned long cur, target; + bool logging = atomic_read(&kvm->nr_memslots_dirty_logging) != 0; + + if (logging && kvm_supports_hdbss(kvm)) + target = VTCR_EL2_HD | VTCR_EL2_HA | VTCR_EL2_HDBSS; + else if (logging || !kvm_supports_hafdbs()) + target = 0; + else + target = VTCR_EL2_HD | VTCR_EL2_HA; + + cur = kvm->arch.mmu.vtcr & (VTCR_EL2_HD | VTCR_EL2_HA | VTCR_EL2_HDBSS); + if (cur == target) + return; + + kvm->arch.mmu.vtcr = (kvm->arch.mmu.vtcr & + ~(VTCR_EL2_HD | VTCR_EL2_HA | VTCR_EL2_HDBSS)) | + target; + + kvm_make_all_cpus_request(kvm, KVM_REQ_RELOAD_STAGE2); + + /* + * The request only reloads VTCR_EL2; cached translations keep + * the old permissions until invalidated. + */ + kvm_flush_remote_tlbs(kvm); +} + void kvm_arch_commit_memory_region(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_memory_slot *old, const struct kvm_memory_slot *new,
@@ -2624,6 +2675,9 @@ void kvm_arch_commit_memory_region(struct kvm *kvm, { bool log_dirty_pages = new && new->flags & KVM_MEM_LOG_DIRTY_PAGES; + /* Derive the hardware dirty mode from the new logging state. */ + kvm_arch_update_hw_dirty_mode(kvm); + /* * At this point memslot has been committed and there is an * allocated dirty_bitmap[], dirty pages will be tracked while the --
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