[PATCH v5 1/7] KVM: arm64: Skip cache maintenance for non-cacheable pKVM mappings
From: Fuad Tabba
Date: Fri Jul 17 2026 - 09:04:22 EST
From: Bradley Morgan <include@xxxxxxxxx>
The pKVM flush path walks its own pkvm_mappings list and cleans the
data cache for every mapping, unlike the generic stage-2 walker it
shadows, which skips non-cacheable leaves. Cleaning the cacheable
alias of a non-cacheable mapping is pointless and can corrupt a
device endpoint. Record whether a mapping is non-cacheable in spare
bits of nr_pages and skip cache maintenance for it.
Fixes: e912efed485a ("KVM: arm64: Introduce the EL1 pKVM MMU")
Suggested-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Bradley Morgan <include@xxxxxxxxx>
[tabba: use Marc's anonymous bitfield in place of the open-coded mask and helpers]
Signed-off-by: Fuad Tabba <fuad.tabba@xxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pkvm.h | 5 ++++-
arch/arm64/kvm/pkvm.c | 15 +++++++++------
2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pkvm.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pkvm.h
index 74fedd9c5ff0..57afb07d6b13 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pkvm.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pkvm.h
@@ -195,7 +195,10 @@ struct pkvm_mapping {
struct rb_node node;
u64 gfn;
u64 pfn;
- u64 nr_pages;
+ struct {
+ u64 nr_pages:48;
+ u64 nc:1;
+ };
u64 __subtree_last; /* Internal member for interval tree */
};
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/pkvm.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/pkvm.c
index 053e4f733e4b..f70c601dcf4c 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/pkvm.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/pkvm.c
@@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ static int __pkvm_pgtable_stage2_unshare(struct kvm_pgtable *pgt, u64 start, u64
for_each_mapping_in_range_safe(pgt, start, end, mapping) {
ret = kvm_call_hyp_nvhe(__pkvm_host_unshare_guest, handle, mapping->gfn,
- mapping->nr_pages);
+ (u64)mapping->nr_pages);
if (WARN_ON(ret))
return ret;
pkvm_mapping_remove(mapping, &pgt->pkvm_mappings);
@@ -473,6 +473,7 @@ int pkvm_pgtable_stage2_map(struct kvm_pgtable *pgt, u64 addr, u64 size,
mapping->gfn = gfn;
mapping->pfn = pfn;
mapping->nr_pages = size / PAGE_SIZE;
+ mapping->nc = !!(prot & (KVM_PGTABLE_PROT_DEVICE | KVM_PGTABLE_PROT_NORMAL_NC));
pkvm_mapping_insert(mapping, &pgt->pkvm_mappings);
return ret;
@@ -503,7 +504,7 @@ int pkvm_pgtable_stage2_wrprotect(struct kvm_pgtable *pgt, u64 addr, u64 size)
lockdep_assert_held(&kvm->mmu_lock);
for_each_mapping_in_range_safe(pgt, addr, addr + size, mapping) {
ret = kvm_call_hyp_nvhe(__pkvm_host_wrprotect_guest, handle, mapping->gfn,
- mapping->nr_pages);
+ (u64)mapping->nr_pages);
if (WARN_ON(ret))
break;
}
@@ -517,9 +518,11 @@ int pkvm_pgtable_stage2_flush(struct kvm_pgtable *pgt, u64 addr, u64 size)
struct pkvm_mapping *mapping;
lockdep_assert_held(&kvm->mmu_lock);
- for_each_mapping_in_range_safe(pgt, addr, addr + size, mapping)
- __clean_dcache_guest_page(pfn_to_kaddr(mapping->pfn),
- PAGE_SIZE * mapping->nr_pages);
+ for_each_mapping_in_range_safe(pgt, addr, addr + size, mapping) {
+ if (!mapping->nc)
+ __clean_dcache_guest_page(pfn_to_kaddr(mapping->pfn),
+ PAGE_SIZE * mapping->nr_pages);
+ }
return 0;
}
@@ -537,7 +540,7 @@ bool pkvm_pgtable_stage2_test_clear_young(struct kvm_pgtable *pgt, u64 addr, u64
lockdep_assert_held(&kvm->mmu_lock);
for_each_mapping_in_range_safe(pgt, addr, addr + size, mapping)
young |= kvm_call_hyp_nvhe(__pkvm_host_test_clear_young_guest, handle, mapping->gfn,
- mapping->nr_pages, mkold);
+ (u64)mapping->nr_pages, mkold);
return young;
}
--
2.39.5