From: "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
To: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
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Leo Soares Passos <Leo.Bras@arm.com>,
"Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH v2 03/13] KVM: arm64: Propagate and use esr in s2fd when handling guest aborts
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2026 13:26:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260914-kvm-arm-prefault-v2-3-26fb47f74b73@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260914-kvm-arm-prefault-v2-0-26fb47f74b73@kernel.org>
kvm_handle_guest_abort() establishes a kvm_s2_fault_desc data structure,
s2fd, to store and propagate state to either pkvm_mem_abort(), gmem_abort()
or user_mem_abort() handlers.
Each of these, however, examines the Exception Syndrome Register (ESR) via
s2fd->vcpu.
Introduce an s2fd->esr field to abstract this and propagate it to callers.
The value of this (beyond refactoring) is to be able to later generate
faults with a synthetic esr, specifically to implement stage 2 page table
pre-faulting.
Abort handlers which use kvm_s2_fault_desc - gmem_abort() and
user_mem_abort() - now only reference s2fd->esr and do not look it up in
any other way, which makes it safe to pass a synthetic s2fd->esr value to
these functions.
No functional change intended.
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org>
---
arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c | 12 +++++++-----
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
index d1a6e25c3095..8303121e3332 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -1603,21 +1603,22 @@ struct kvm_s2_fault_desc {
struct kvm_s2_trans *nested;
struct kvm_memory_slot *memslot;
unsigned long hva;
+ unsigned long esr;
};
static bool kvm_s2_fault_is_perm(const struct kvm_s2_fault_desc *s2fd)
{
- return esr_fsc_is_permission_fault(kvm_vcpu_get_esr(s2fd->vcpu));
+ return esr_fsc_is_permission_fault(s2fd->esr);
}
static bool kvm_s2_fault_is_exec(const struct kvm_s2_fault_desc *s2fd)
{
- return esr_abt_is_exec_fault(kvm_vcpu_get_esr(s2fd->vcpu));
+ return esr_abt_is_exec_fault(s2fd->esr);
}
static bool kvm_s2_fault_is_write(const struct kvm_s2_fault_desc *s2fd)
{
- return esr_abt_is_write_fault(kvm_vcpu_get_esr(s2fd->vcpu));
+ return esr_abt_is_write_fault(s2fd->esr);
}
static u64 kvm_s2_perm_fault_granule(const struct kvm_s2_fault_desc *s2fd)
@@ -1626,7 +1627,7 @@ static u64 kvm_s2_perm_fault_granule(const struct kvm_s2_fault_desc *s2fd)
if (!kvm_s2_fault_is_perm(s2fd))
return 0;
- level = kvm_vcpu_get_esr(s2fd->vcpu) & ESR_ELx_FSC_LEVEL;
+ level = s2fd->esr & ESR_ELx_FSC_LEVEL;
return BIT(ARM64_HW_PGTABLE_LEVEL_SHIFT(level));
}
@@ -1997,7 +1998,7 @@ static int kvm_s2_fault_compute_prot(const struct kvm_s2_fault_desc *s2fd,
* and trigger the exception here. Since the memslot is valid, inject
* the fault back to the guest.
*/
- if (esr_fsc_is_excl_atomic_fault(kvm_vcpu_get_esr(s2fd->vcpu))) {
+ if (esr_fsc_is_excl_atomic_fault(s2fd->esr)) {
kvm_inject_dabt_excl_atomic(s2fd->vcpu, kvm_vcpu_get_hfar(s2fd->vcpu));
return 1;
}
@@ -2426,6 +2427,7 @@ int kvm_handle_guest_abort(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
.nested = nested,
.memslot = memslot,
.hva = hva,
+ .esr = esr,
};
if (kvm_vm_is_protected(vcpu->kvm)) {
--
2.55.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-14 12:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-14 12:26 [PATCH v2 00/13] KVM: arm64: Add KVM_PRE_FAULT_MEMORY support Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-14 12:26 ` [PATCH v2 01/13] arm64: Add ESR fault helpers Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-14 12:26 ` [PATCH v2 02/13] KVM: arm64: Use ESR helpers in guest abort handling Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-14 12:26 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) [this message]
2026-09-14 12:26 ` [PATCH v2 04/13] KVM: arm64: Propagate and use mmu in s2fd when handling guest aborts Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-14 12:26 ` [PATCH v2 05/13] KVM: arm64: Propagate and use kvm_s2_fault_result on S2 fault Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-14 12:26 ` [PATCH v2 06/13] KVM: arm64: Size the stage-2 memcache from the fault MMU Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-14 12:26 ` [PATCH v2 07/13] KVM: arm64: Propagate EHWPOISON in kvm_s2_fault_pin_pfn() Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-14 12:26 ` [PATCH v2 08/13] KVM: arm64: Pass walk flags to kvm_pgtable_get_leaf() Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-14 12:26 ` [PATCH v2 09/13] KVM: arm64: Implement KVM_PRE_FAULT_MEMORY Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-14 12:26 ` [PATCH v2 10/13] Documentation: KVM: document arm64 KVM_PRE_FAULT_MEMORY Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-14 12:26 ` [PATCH v2 11/13] KVM: selftests: Enable pre_fault_memory_test for arm64 Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-14 12:26 ` [PATCH v2 12/13] KVM: selftests: Add option for different backing in pre-fault tests Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-14 12:26 ` [PATCH v2 13/13] KVM: selftests: Add nested pre-fault test for arm64 Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
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