RE: [RFC PATCH 3/6] arm64: hyperv: Add per-CPU RSI host call infrastructure for CCA Realms

[Michael Kelley]

From: Kameron Carr <kameroncarr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, June 9, 2026 11:10 AM
> 
> Arm CCA Realms cannot issue Hyper-V hypercalls via HVC; the guest must
> route them through the RSI_HOST_CALL interface, which takes the IPA of a
> per-CPU rsi_host_call structure as its argument.
> 
> Add hyperv_pcpu_hostcall_struct as a per-CPU pointer to that buffer and
> allocate it for the boot CPU during hyperv_init() and for each secondary
> CPU in hv_cpu_init(). The allocation is gated on is_realm_world() so
> non-Realm arm64 Hyper-V guests pay no memory cost.

I wonder if there's a simpler approach here. What about calculating the
total size of struct rsi_host_call needed for all CPUs, then doing a single
dynamic allocation to effectively create an array of entries? Each CPU
would just index into the array with its processor ID. You could still have
a per-cpu pointer that points to the correct array entry to avoid the need
to get the processor ID, but I wonder if even that is worth the trouble. Since
struct rsi_host_call size is a power of 2, the indexing is just a simple shift.

The hyperv_pcpu_input_page is allocated the way it is because it's much
bigger. But 16 struct rsi_host_call fit into a single 4 KiB, so there's no
danger of hitting a memory allocation limit at boot time. Even with 8192
CPUs the allocation is only 2 MiB. 

Michael

> 
> Signed-off-by: Kameron Carr <kameroncarr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/hyperv/mshyperv.c      | 78 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/mshyperv.h |  3 ++
>  2 files changed, 79 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/hyperv/mshyperv.c b/arch/arm64/hyperv/mshyperv.c
> index 4fdc26ade1d74..08fec82691683 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/hyperv/mshyperv.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/hyperv/mshyperv.c
> @@ -15,10 +15,16 @@
>  #include <linux/errno.h>
>  #include <linux/version.h>
>  #include <linux/cpuhotplug.h>
> +#include <linux/slab.h>
> +#include <linux/percpu.h>
>  #include <asm/mshyperv.h>
> +#include <asm/rsi.h>
> 
>  static bool hyperv_initialized;
> 
> +void * __percpu *hyperv_pcpu_hostcall_struct;
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(hyperv_pcpu_hostcall_struct);
> +
>  int hv_get_hypervisor_version(union hv_hypervisor_version_info *info)
>  {
>  	hv_get_vpreg_128(HV_REGISTER_HYPERVISOR_VERSION,
> @@ -60,6 +66,46 @@ static bool __init hyperv_detect_via_acpi(void)
> 
>  #endif
> 
> +static void hv_hostcall_free(void)
> +{
> +	int cpu;
> +
> +	if (!hyperv_pcpu_hostcall_struct)
> +		return;
> +
> +	for_each_possible_cpu(cpu)
> +		kfree(*per_cpu_ptr(hyperv_pcpu_hostcall_struct, cpu));
> +	free_percpu(hyperv_pcpu_hostcall_struct);
> +	hyperv_pcpu_hostcall_struct = NULL;
> +}
> +
> +static int hv_cpu_init(unsigned int cpu)
> +{
> +	void **hostcall_struct;
> +	gfp_t flags;
> +	void *mem;
> +
> +	if (hyperv_pcpu_hostcall_struct) {
> +		/* hv_cpu_init() can be called with IRQs disabled from hv_resume() */
> +		flags = irqs_disabled() ? GFP_ATOMIC : GFP_KERNEL;
> +
> +		hostcall_struct = (void **)this_cpu_ptr(hyperv_pcpu_hostcall_struct);
> +		/*
> +		 * The hostcall_struct memory is not freed when the CPU
> +		 * goes offline. If a previously offlined CPU is brought
> +		 * back online, the memory is reused here.
> +		 */
> +		if (!*hostcall_struct) {
> +			mem = kzalloc_obj(struct rsi_host_call, flags);
> +			if (!mem)
> +				return -ENOMEM;
> +			*hostcall_struct = mem;
> +		}
> +	}
> +
> +	return hv_common_cpu_init(cpu);
> +}
> +
>  static bool __init hyperv_detect_via_smccc(void)
>  {
>  	uuid_t hyperv_uuid = UUID_INIT(
> @@ -73,6 +119,8 @@ static bool __init hyperv_detect_via_smccc(void)
>  static int __init hyperv_init(void)
>  {
>  	struct hv_get_vp_registers_output	result;
> +	void **hostcall_struct;
> +	void *mem;
>  	u64	guest_id;
>  	int	ret;
> 
> @@ -85,6 +133,27 @@ static int __init hyperv_init(void)
>  	if (!hyperv_detect_via_acpi() && !hyperv_detect_via_smccc())
>  		return 0;
> 
> +	/*
> +	 * The RSI host-call buffer is only ever used when
> +	 * is_realm_world() is true. Skip the per-CPU allocation on
> +	 * non-Realm guests.
> +	 */
> +	if (is_realm_world()) {
> +		hyperv_pcpu_hostcall_struct = alloc_percpu(void *);
> +		if (!hyperv_pcpu_hostcall_struct)
> +			return -ENOMEM;
> +
> +		hostcall_struct = (void **)this_cpu_ptr(hyperv_pcpu_hostcall_struct);
> +		if (!*hostcall_struct) {
> +			mem = kzalloc_obj(struct rsi_host_call);
> +			if (!mem) {
> +				ret = -ENOMEM;
> +				goto free_hostcall_mem;
> +			}
> +			*hostcall_struct = mem;
> +		}
> +	}
> +
>  	/* Setup the guest ID */
>  	guest_id = hv_generate_guest_id(LINUX_VERSION_CODE);
>  	hv_set_vpreg(HV_REGISTER_GUEST_OS_ID, guest_id);
> @@ -106,12 +175,13 @@ static int __init hyperv_init(void)
> 
>  	ret = hv_common_init();
>  	if (ret)
> -		return ret;
> +		goto free_hostcall_mem;
> 
>  	ret = cpuhp_setup_state(CPUHP_AP_HYPERV_ONLINE,
> "arm64/hyperv_init:online",
> -				hv_common_cpu_init, hv_common_cpu_die);
> +				hv_cpu_init, hv_common_cpu_die);
>  	if (ret < 0) {
>  		hv_common_free();
> +		hv_hostcall_free();
>  		return ret;
>  	}
> 
> @@ -125,6 +195,10 @@ static int __init hyperv_init(void)
> 
>  	hyperv_initialized = true;
>  	return 0;
> +
> +free_hostcall_mem:
> +	hv_hostcall_free();
> +	return ret;
>  }
> 
>  early_initcall(hyperv_init);
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/mshyperv.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/mshyperv.h
> index b721d3134ab66..65a00bd14c6cb 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/mshyperv.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/mshyperv.h
> @@ -63,4 +63,7 @@ static inline u64 hv_get_non_nested_msr(unsigned int reg)
> 
>  #include <asm-generic/mshyperv.h>
> 
> +/* Per-CPU RSI host call structure for CCA Realms */
> +extern void *__percpu *hyperv_pcpu_hostcall_struct;
> +
>  #endif
> --
> 2.45.4
>