From: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
To: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>,
Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>,
Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>,
James Houghton <jthoughton@google.com>,
Chris Mason <mason@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 03/23] KVM: PPC: Flush/zap all memslots on kvm_arch_flush_shadow_all()
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2026 22:51:44 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <tslx6dav.ritesh.list@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261030212112.2598640-4-seanjc@google.com>
Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> writes:
> Flush/zap every memslot in kvm_arch_flush_shadow_all(), i.e. when the
> owning userspace process is exiting, as KVM must ensure all associated
> memory is unmapped from the guest.
>
That's true and yes, this looks like a miss. I guess it must have gone
unnoticed because after the owning process exits, and when the vmfd is
closed it will issue a teardown. So the escape is only until the vmfd is
closed...
kvm_arch_destroy_vm() -> kvmppc_free_radix()
The change looks good to me. I have only tested this on my qemu+dev
setup for now. But will give it a try on real hardware as well.
Thanks for taking care of this. Please feel free to add:
Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
> ---
> arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 1 -
> arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c | 11 +++++++++++
> 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> index 708a32f89776..50a42f80e5f1 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> @@ -910,7 +910,6 @@ struct kvm_vcpu_arch {
> #define __KVM_HAVE_CREATE_DEVICE
>
> static inline void kvm_arch_memslots_updated(struct kvm *kvm, u64 gen) {}
> -static inline void kvm_arch_flush_shadow_all(struct kvm *kvm) {}
> static inline void kvm_arch_vcpu_blocking(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) {}
> static inline void kvm_arch_vcpu_unblocking(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu) {}
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c
> index 9194cf492d1c..9e9d0865c2f6 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c
> @@ -764,6 +764,17 @@ void kvm_arch_commit_memory_region(struct kvm *kvm,
> kvmppc_core_commit_memory_region(kvm, old, new, change);
> }
>
> +void kvm_arch_flush_shadow_all(struct kvm *kvm)
> +{
> + struct kvm_memory_slot *slot;
> + struct kvm_memslots *slots;
> + int bkt;
> +
> + slots = kvm_memslots(kvm);
> + kvm_for_each_memslot(slot, bkt, slots)
> + kvmppc_core_flush_memslot(kvm, slot);
> +}
> +
> void kvm_arch_flush_shadow_memslot(struct kvm *kvm,
> struct kvm_memory_slot *slot)
> {
> --
> 2.56.0.385.gac671c819a-goog
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-11-03 18:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-30 21:20 [PATCH v4 00/23] KVM: Fix+harden against bad uaccess using dying VM Sean Christopherson
2026-10-30 21:20 ` [PATCH v4 01/23] KVM: Reject user accesses to guest memory if current->mm != kvm->mm Sean Christopherson
2026-10-30 21:20 ` [PATCH v4 02/23] KVM: nVMX: Don't force a full nested VM-Exit when destroying a vCPU Sean Christopherson
2026-11-02 22:03 ` Jim Mattson
2026-10-30 21:20 ` [PATCH v4 03/23] KVM: PPC: Flush/zap all memslots on kvm_arch_flush_shadow_all() Sean Christopherson
2026-11-03 17:21 ` Ritesh Harjani [this message]
2026-10-30 21:20 ` [PATCH v4 04/23] KVM: x86: Drop dead check on an existing memslot not having any pages Sean Christopherson
2026-10-30 21:20 ` [PATCH v4 05/23] KVM: WARN and error out if memslot update encounters existing slot with no pages Sean Christopherson
2026-10-30 21:20 ` [PATCH v4 06/23] KVM: x86: Unmap VMAs for KVM-internal memslots when the memslot is freed Sean Christopherson
2026-10-30 21:20 ` [PATCH v4 07/23] KVM: x86: Delete non-SMM internal memslot if creating SMM memslot fails Sean Christopherson
2026-10-30 21:20 ` [PATCH v4 08/23] KVM: x86: Process all address spaces when deleting internal memslot Sean Christopherson
2026-10-30 21:20 ` [PATCH v4 09/23] KVM: x86: Re-queue APICv update request if inhibiting APIC access page fails Sean Christopherson
2026-10-30 21:20 ` [PATCH v4 10/23] KVM: x86: Map a separate VMA for each address space for internal memslots Sean Christopherson
2026-10-30 21:20 ` [PATCH v4 11/23] KVM: Disallow setting memslots when the VM is being destroyed Sean Christopherson
2026-10-30 21:21 ` [PATCH v4 12/23] KVM: Destroy memslots immediately after mmu_notifiers are unregistered Sean Christopherson
2026-10-30 21:21 ` [PATCH v4 13/23] KVM: WARN if KVM attempts to do guest-related uaccess with "wrong" process Sean Christopherson
2026-10-30 21:21 ` [PATCH v4 14/23] KVM: WARN and reject guest-based uaccess if VM is dying Sean Christopherson
2026-10-30 21:21 ` [PATCH v4 15/23] KVM: Pre-check uaccesses in KVM's APIs to read/write guest memory Sean Christopherson
2026-10-30 21:21 ` [PATCH v4 16/23] KVM: VMX: Explicility free vmcs01, not the current VMCS, in vCPU free paths Sean Christopherson
2026-10-30 21:21 ` [PATCH v4 17/23] KVM: nVMX: Don't explicitly VMCLEAR+free() vmcs01's shadow VMCS when freeing vCPU Sean Christopherson
2026-10-30 21:21 ` [PATCH v4 18/23] KVM: nVMX: Cancel the nested VMX Preemption Timer's hrtimer in free_nested() Sean Christopherson
2026-10-30 21:21 ` [PATCH v4 19/23] KVM: Add lockdep-only APIs to query and assert that a vCPU is unreachable Sean Christopherson
2026-10-30 21:21 ` [PATCH v4 20/23] KVM: VMX: Explicitly remove dying vCPUs from the PI wakeup list Sean Christopherson
2026-10-30 21:21 ` [PATCH v4 21/23] KVM: nVMX: Don't switch to vmcs01 when freeing a vCPU Sean Christopherson
2026-10-30 21:21 ` [PATCH v4 22/23] KVM: nVMX: Don't load+put the vCPU when freeing nested state for a dying vCPU Sean Christopherson
2026-10-30 21:21 ` [PATCH v4 23/23] KVM: x86: Rename __x86_set_memory_region() => x86_set_internal_memslot() Sean Christopherson
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