From: "Bingyu.Xian" <shanbeeyoo@gmail.com>
To: Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>
Cc: Atish Patra <atish.patra@linux.dev>,
Paul Walmsley <pjw@kernel.org>,
Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>,
Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>,
Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, kvm-riscv@lists.infradead.org,
linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Quan Zhou <zhouquan@iscas.ac.cn>,
Bingyu Xian <shanbeeyoo@gmail.com>
Subject: [RFC PATCH] RISC-V: KVM: Add minimal guest_memfd support
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2026 15:07:56 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260729070756.730312-1-shanbeeyoo@gmail.com> (raw)
Add minimal guest_memfd support for RISC-V KVM, following the same
pattern as x86 and arm64.
1. Select KVM_GUEST_MEMFD in Kconfig
2. In kvm_riscv_mmu_map(), check kvm_slot_has_gmem() early, before
taking mmap_read_lock(). For gmem memslots, resolve the PFN via
kvm_gmem_get_pfn(), then acquire kvm->mmu_lock and jump to G-stage
mapping, bypassing vma_lookup()/__kvm_faultin_pfn(). The gmem PFN
is resolved before mmap_read_lock() so the mmu_lock taken for the
mapping is never held while waiting for mmap_lock, which would
deadlock against mmu_notifier invalidation (mmu_lock -> mmap_lock).
3. Skip kvm_release_faultin_page() for gmem pages; their lifetime is
managed by the gmem inode and invalidation notifiers.
Verified: defconfig + CONFIG_KVM_GUEST_MEMFD=y compiles cleanly.
Assisted-by: YuanSheng: deepseek-v4-pro
Co-developed-by: Quan Zhou <zhouquan@iscas.ac.cn>
Signed-off-by: Quan Zhou <zhouquan@iscas.ac.cn>
Signed-off-by: Bingyu Xian <shanbeeyoo@gmail.com>
---
arch/riscv/kvm/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/riscv/kvm/mmu.c | 17 ++++++++++++++++-
2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/riscv/kvm/Kconfig b/arch/riscv/kvm/Kconfig
index ec2cee0a39e0..77121100579f 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kvm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/riscv/kvm/Kconfig
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ config KVM
select KVM_GENERIC_DIRTYLOG_READ_PROTECT
select KVM_GENERIC_HARDWARE_ENABLING
select KVM_MMIO
+ select KVM_GUEST_MEMFD
select VIRT_XFER_TO_GUEST_WORK
select SCHED_INFO
select GUEST_PERF_EVENTS if PERF_EVENTS
diff --git a/arch/riscv/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/riscv/kvm/mmu.c
index d2a06a54be17..a9d61d0366e2 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -557,6 +557,19 @@ int kvm_riscv_mmu_map(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_memory_slot *memslot,
/* Setup initial state of output mapping */
memset(out_map, 0, sizeof(*out_map));
+ if (kvm_slot_has_gmem(memslot)) {
+ int max_order;
+
+ ret = kvm_gmem_get_pfn(kvm, memslot, gfn, &hfn, &page, &max_order);
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
+
+ vma_pagesize = PAGE_SIZE;
+ writable = true;
+ write_lock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
+ goto map_gstage;
+ }
+
if (is_write && logging &&
kvm_riscv_mmu_dirty_log_write_fault_fast(kvm, memslot, gpa, out_map))
return 0;
@@ -643,6 +656,7 @@ int kvm_riscv_mmu_map(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_memory_slot *memslot,
if (!logging && !is_hugetlb && vma_pagesize == PAGE_SIZE)
vma_pagesize = transparent_hugepage_adjust(kvm, memslot, hva, &hfn, &gpa);
+map_gstage:
if (writable) {
mark_page_dirty_in_slot(kvm, memslot, gfn);
ret = kvm_riscv_gstage_map_page(&gstage, pcache, gpa, hfn << PAGE_SHIFT,
@@ -658,7 +672,8 @@ int kvm_riscv_mmu_map(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_memory_slot *memslot,
kvm_err("Failed to map in G-stage\n");
out_unlock:
- kvm_release_faultin_page(kvm, page, ret, writable);
+ if (!kvm_slot_has_gmem(memslot))
+ kvm_release_faultin_page(kvm, page, ret, writable);
write_unlock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
return ret;
}
--
2.54.0
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