[PATCH v2 2/7] KVM: arm64: Fix pKVM page-tracking comments
Quentin Perret
qperret at google.com
Wed Apr 16 08:26:42 PDT 2025
Most of the comments relating to pKVM page-tracking in nvhe/memory.h are
now either slightly outdated or outright wrong. Fix the comments.
Signed-off-by: Quentin Perret <qperret at google.com>
---
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/nvhe/memory.h | 29 ++++++++++++++++--------
1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/nvhe/memory.h b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/nvhe/memory.h
index 34233d586060..178028172c0b 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/nvhe/memory.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/nvhe/memory.h
@@ -8,20 +8,29 @@
#include <linux/types.h>
/*
- * Bits 0-1 are reserved to track the memory ownership state of each page:
- * 00: The page is owned exclusively by the page-table owner.
- * 01: The page is owned by the page-table owner, but is shared
- * with another entity.
- * 10: The page is shared with, but not owned by the page-table owner.
- * 11: Reserved for future use (lending).
+ * Bits 0-1 are used to encode the memory ownership state of each page from the
+ * point of view of a pKVM "component" (host, hyp, guest, ... see enum
+ * pkvm_component_id):
+ * 00: The page is owned and exclusively accessible by the component;
+ * 01: The page is owned and accessible by the component, but is also
+ * accessible by another component;
+ * 10: The page is accessible but not owned by the component;
+ * The storage of this state depends on the component: either in the
+ * hyp_vmemmap for the host state or in PTE software bits for the hypervisor
+ * and guests.
*/
enum pkvm_page_state {
PKVM_PAGE_OWNED = 0ULL,
PKVM_PAGE_SHARED_OWNED = BIT(0),
PKVM_PAGE_SHARED_BORROWED = BIT(1),
- __PKVM_PAGE_RESERVED = BIT(0) | BIT(1),
-
- /* Meta-states which aren't encoded directly in the PTE's SW bits */
+ __PKVM_PAGE_RESERVED = BIT(0) | BIT(1),
+
+ /*
+ * 'Meta-states' are not stored directly in PTE SW bits for hyp and
+ * guest states, but inferred from the context (e.g. invalid PTE
+ * entries). For the host, meta-states are stored directly in the
+ * struct hyp_page.
+ */
PKVM_NOPAGE = BIT(2),
};
#define PKVM_PAGE_META_STATES_MASK (~__PKVM_PAGE_RESERVED)
@@ -44,7 +53,7 @@ struct hyp_page {
u16 refcount;
u8 order;
- /* Host (non-meta) state. Guarded by the host stage-2 lock. */
+ /* Host state. Guarded by the host stage-2 lock. */
enum pkvm_page_state host_state : 8;
u32 host_share_guest_count;
--
2.49.0.604.gff1f9ca942-goog
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