[PATCH v17 02/20] KVM: arm64: Avoid including linux/kvm_host.h in kvm_pgtable.h

From: Suzuki K Poulose

Date: Tue Sep 08 2026 - 13:08:50 EST


From: Steven Price <steven.price@xxxxxxx>

To avoid future include cycles, drop the linux/kvm_host.h include in
kvm_pgtable.h and include the lightweight headers required for the types
and inline helpers used there. Additionally provide a forward
declaration for struct kvm_s2_mmu as it's only used as a pointer in this
file.

Both pgtable.c and kvm_pkvm.h relied on the indirect inclusion of
kvm_host.h, so make that explicit.

Signed-off-by: Steven Price <steven.price@xxxxxxx>
---
New patch in v13
---
arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pgtable.h | 6 +++++-
arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pkvm.h | 2 +-
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c | 1 +
3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pgtable.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pgtable.h
index 41a8687938eb6..c2e4b29e605fc 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pgtable.h
@@ -8,9 +8,13 @@
#define __ARM64_KVM_PGTABLE_H__

#include <linux/bits.h>
-#include <linux/kvm_host.h>
+#include <linux/kvm_types.h>
+#include <linux/rbtree_types.h>
+#include <linux/rcupdate.h>
#include <linux/types.h>

+struct kvm_s2_mmu;
+
#define KVM_PGTABLE_FIRST_LEVEL -1
#define KVM_PGTABLE_LAST_LEVEL 3

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pkvm.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pkvm.h
index beea00e693a0a..54a618d887fa4 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pkvm.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pkvm.h
@@ -7,9 +7,9 @@
#define __ARM64_KVM_PKVM_H__

#include <linux/arm_ffa.h>
+#include <linux/kvm_host.h>
#include <linux/memblock.h>
#include <linux/scatterlist.h>
-#include <asm/kvm_host.h>
#include <asm/kvm_pgtable.h>

/* Maximum number of VMs that can co-exist under pKVM. */
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c
index b74dd5ce1efd3..f48253b9d88b5 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
*/

#include <linux/bitfield.h>
+#include <linux/kvm_host.h>
#include <asm/kvm_pgtable.h>
#include <asm/stage2_pgtable.h>

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