Re: [PATCH v6 0/7] KVM: arm64: nv: Implement nested stage-2 reverse map
From: Itaru Kitayama
Date: Tue Sep 15 2026 - 19:30:49 EST
On Wed, Sep 16, 2026 at 12:22:30AM +0100, Wei-Lin Chang wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2026 at 06:49:57AM +0900, Itaru Kitayama wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 15, 2026 at 04:42:58PM +0100, Wei-Lin Chang wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > This is v6 of optimizing the shadow s2 mmu unmapping during MMU
> > > notifiers.
> > >
> > > This version fixes a few issues, and adds Marc's space optimization
> > > for kvm_guest_s2_mapping [1]. Please see the changelog for the details.
> > >
> > > Tested by booting L3, and running in-kernel targetted tests described
> > > in [2]. v5 got some tested-by's from Itaru and Wang (thanks), I didn't
> > > carry them over since some bugs fixed in v6 are non-obvious. Some
> > > retest would be much appreciated!
> >
> > How did you boot into L3, with KVM selftest or recrusively boot on HW?
>
> I just recrusively booted VMs on hardware. :)
Good. Then I actually tried that on Grace CPUs, but letting L1 boot
with nested mode did not print "VHE+NV2" KVM init log in dmesg, thus not
able to boot L3. Do I need to add other than kvm.arm-mode=nested to command line?
Thanks,
Itaru.
>
> Thanks,
> Wei-Lin Chang
>
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Itaru.
> >
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