[PATCH v8 19/28] KVM: arm64: Support unaligned fixmap in the pKVM hyp
Vincent Donnefort
vdonnefort at google.com
Thu Nov 20 01:55:14 PST 2025
Hi Marc,
Thanks for having a look at the series.
On Wed, Nov 19, 2025 at 03:38:32PM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> 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?
That was fixing hyp_fixblock_map() at the same time. I will move the
offset_in_page() in both callers.
>
> Thanks,
>
> M.
>
> --
> Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
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