[PATCH v3 0/3] RISC-V: KVM: Huge page recovery during disable-dirty-log

From: wang.yechao255

Date: Fri Jun 05 2026 - 04:06:58 EST


From: Wang Yechao <wang.yechao255@xxxxxxxxxx>

When dirty logging is enabled, the gstage mappings are split into
4K pages to track dirty pages. If the migration fails or is canceled,
in order to keep the VM's performance consistent with that before
dirty logging was enabled, we need to recover the gstage huge page mappings
when dirty logging is disabled.

With this series, dirty_log_perf_test shows a decrease in the number of
vCPU faults:

$ perf stat -e kvm:kvm_page_fault \
/dirty_log_perf_test -s anonymous_hugetlb_1gb -v 1 -e -b 1G

Before: 524,819 kvm:kvm_page_fault
After : 263,211 kvm:kvm_page_fault

Changes in v3:
- Rebased on https://github.com/kvm-riscv/linux/tree/riscv_kvm_queue
- Add support to recover 1GB mappings for gstage.
- Refactor kvm_arch_commit_memory_region to be identical to arm64.
(sashiko AI Reviews)
- Scan the child page table for the first valid leaf PTE to recover.
- Add the memslot boundaries check when recover hugepages.
- Move the cond_resched_lock to the start loop iteration.
- The kvm_page_fault tracepoint be placed before the conditional block.
- Remove the fault_supports_gstage_huge_mapping check.

Changes in v2:
- Rebased on Linux v7.1-rc1.
- Skip recovering huge pte if the first child pte is not leaf.
- Link to v2:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/20260429173002565bdp1o7P0bvOs6yTz64yNx@xxxxxxxxxx/

- Link to v1:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/20260407171052241tmZDFGusMP_wlEsBVVtJo@xxxxxxxxxx/

Wang Yechao (3):
RISC-V: KVM: Refactor kvm_arch_commit_memory_region()
RISC-V: KVM: add tracepoint for guest page faults
RISC-V: KVM: Recover gstage huge page mappings during
disable-dirty-log

arch/riscv/include/asm/kvm_gstage.h | 4 +
arch/riscv/kvm/gstage.c | 61 +++++++++++++++
arch/riscv/kvm/mmu.c | 112 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
arch/riscv/kvm/trace.h | 25 +++++++
arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_exit.c | 3 +
5 files changed, 204 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

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