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[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
--
2.43.0

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