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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>,
	Paul Durrant <paul@xen.org>,
	Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>,
	Fred Griffoul <fgriffo@amazon.co.uk>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Subject: [PATCH v4 02/12] KVM: pfncache: Return -EAGAIN for a lookup which hits an invalid memslot
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2026 17:24:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261019162445.37219-3-dwmw2@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261019162445.37219-1-dwmw2@infradead.org>

From: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>

A memslot being deleted or moved is present in the active array but
flagged KVM_MEMSLOT_INVALID — a transient state which exists only
within a single KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION call and is announced by
a further generation bump when it resolves. gfn_to_hva_memslot()
collapses that case and a genuinely unbacked gfn into one error, and
the pfncache refresh reported both as -EFAULT.

Distinguish them: return -EAGAIN when the slot exists but is
invalid, mirroring what RET_PF_RETRY does for ordinary guest faults
on an invalid slot. Existing users don't *need* to change; most
will simply resolve again at the next refresh. But the distinct
error code *allows* a caller to retry.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Assisted-by: LLM
---
 virt/kvm/pfncache.c | 17 ++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/virt/kvm/pfncache.c b/virt/kvm/pfncache.c
index 3659686b97c2..17aaebd76db8 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/pfncache.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/pfncache.c
@@ -304,7 +304,22 @@ static int __kvm_gpc_refresh(struct gfn_to_pfn_cache *gpc, gpa_t gpa, unsigned l
 			gpc->uhva = gfn_to_hva_memslot(gpc->memslot, gfn);
 
 			if (kvm_is_error_hva(gpc->uhva)) {
-				ret = -EFAULT;
+				/*
+				 * A slot being deleted or moved is present
+				 * but flagged invalid; the lookup failure is
+				 * transient, resolved when the update
+				 * completes (or reverts) and announced by a
+				 * new memslot generation. Distinguish that
+				 * from a genuinely unbacked gfn so that the
+				 * caller may retry rather than report an
+				 * error, as RET_PF_RETRY does for ordinary
+				 * guest faults.
+				 */
+				if (gpc->memslot &&
+				    (gpc->memslot->flags & KVM_MEMSLOT_INVALID))
+					ret = -EAGAIN;
+				else
+					ret = -EFAULT;
 				goto out;
 			}
 
-- 
2.43.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-10-19 16:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-10-19 16:24 [PATCH v4 00/12] KVM: x86/xen: Don't drop event deliveries which race memslot updates David Woodhouse
2026-10-19 16:24 ` [PATCH v4 01/12] KVM: x86/xen: Don't block memslot updates while halted in SCHEDOP_poll David Woodhouse
2026-10-19 16:24 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2026-10-19 16:24 ` [PATCH v4 03/12] KVM: pfncache: Add a 'wait' argument to the refresh and activate functions David Woodhouse
2026-10-19 16:24 ` [PATCH v4 04/12] KVM: x86/xen: Wait out memslot updates in the Xen attribute ioctls David Woodhouse
2026-10-19 16:24 ` [PATCH v4 05/12] KVM: x86/xen: Don't lose the timer event when delivery fails transiently David Woodhouse
2026-10-19 16:24 ` [PATCH v4 06/12] KVM: x86/xen: Retry event channel delivery which races a memslot update David Woodhouse
2026-10-19 16:24 ` [PATCH v4 07/12] KVM: x86/xen: Extract delivery of event to vCPU into a separate helper David Woodhouse
2026-10-19 16:24 ` [PATCH v4 08/12] KVM: x86/xen: Explicitly tag "shared info" page as never being dirty tracked David Woodhouse
2026-10-19 16:24 ` [PATCH v4 09/12] KVM: x86/xen: Don't dirty track "vCPU info" page David Woodhouse
2026-10-19 16:24 ` [PATCH v4 10/12] KVM: x86: Request the guest TLB flush from record_steal_time() David Woodhouse
2026-10-19 16:24 ` [PATCH v4 11/12] KVM: selftests: Add Xen evtchn vs memslot-update race test David Woodhouse
2026-10-19 16:24 ` [PATCH v4 12/12] KVM: selftests: Fix unreachable timer recovery in xen_shinfo_test David Woodhouse
2026-11-03 22:46 ` [PATCH v4 00/12] KVM: x86/xen: Don't drop event deliveries which race memslot updates David Woodhouse
2026-11-04 19:55   ` Sean Christopherson
2026-11-04 19:53 ` Sean Christopherson

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