[PATCH v3 0/5] Implement Eager Page Splitting for RISC-V
From: Wang Yechao
Date: Tue Jun 23 2026 - 08:15:47 EST
Eager Page Splitting is implemented on x86 and ARM. It improves the
performance of dirty logging (used in live migrations) when guest memory
is backed by huge pages.
This series implement Eager Page Splitting for RISC-V. The Implementation
similar to x86 and ARM. It provides two ways to split huge pages in ioctl
context instead of on fault in vCPU context:
- Split huge pages when dirty logging is enabled when
KVM_DIRTY_LOG_INITIALLY_SET is not set. This happens when enabling the
KVM_MEM_LOG_DIRTY_PAGES flag of a memslot, and splits the whole memslot
into 4K mappings.
- Split huge pages during KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY_LOG when
KVM_DIRTY_LOG_INITIALLY_SET is set. This happens when enabling dirty log
in small chunks. It does not split the whole memslot, but only the
requested chunk range.
Changes in v3:
- Rebase on v7.1 version.
- Add patch03 to remove the redundant TLB flush operations.
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- Check the kvm->arch.pgd before split huge pages.
- Align the start address to PMD_SIZE before split.
- Flushing remote TLBs before Dropping mmu_lock.
Changes in v2:
- Rename the split_page_cache.
- Rename the kvm_riscv_split_huge_pages and
kvm_riscv_split_memory_region.
- Add lockdep_assert_held check before split huge pages.
- Update Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt.
- Link to v2
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/20260603175256408L0jnqGs1cJGc0ijCdujci@xxxxxxxxxx/
- Link to v1:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/20260513153656847l3c4fI5hBsAyoIZi8aGIs@xxxxxxxxxx/
Wang Yechao (5):
RISC-V: KVM: Add the split page cache for ioctl context
RISC-V: KVM: Split huge pages when dirty logging is enabled
RISC-V: KVM: Remove redundant TLB flush operations
RISC-V: KVM: Split huge pages during KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY_LOG
RISC-V: KVM: Add the eager_page_split module parameter
.../admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 7 +-
arch/riscv/include/asm/kvm_gstage.h | 6 +-
arch/riscv/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 1 +
arch/riscv/kvm/gstage.c | 15 +--
arch/riscv/kvm/mmu.c | 93 ++++++++++++++++++-
5 files changed, 106 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
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