[PATCH v8 19/28] KVM: arm64: Support unaligned fixmap in the pKVM hyp

Marc Zyngier maz at kernel.org
Wed Nov 19 07:38:32 PST 2025


On Fri, 07 Nov 2025 09:38:31 +0000,
Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort at google.com> wrote:
> 
> Return the fixmap VA with the page offset, instead of the page base
> address. This allows to use hyp_fixmap_map() seamlessly regardless of
> the address alignment.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort at google.com>
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/mm.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/mm.c
> index ae8391baebc3..75014dc7d82e 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/mm.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/mm.c
> @@ -239,7 +239,7 @@ static void *fixmap_map_slot(struct hyp_fixmap_slot *slot, phys_addr_t phys)
>  	WRITE_ONCE(*ptep, pte);
>  	dsb(ishst);
>  
> -	return (void *)slot->addr;
> +	return (void *)slot->addr + offset_in_page(phys);
>  }
>  
>  void *hyp_fixmap_map(phys_addr_t phys)

This looks slightly odd. fixmap_map_slot() should return *a slot*, not
something in it. Can't hyp_fixmap_map() do that instead?

Thanks,

	M.

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