[PATCH v5 5/6] KVM: arm64: nv: Avoid full shadow stage-2 unmap

Wei-Lin Chang weilin.chang at arm.com
Mon Aug 10 13:50:37 PDT 2026


With guest stage-2 tracking in place, we can improve MMU notifier unmaps
from unmapping all existing shadow stage-2 mappings to only unmapping
the ones affected by the given canonical IPA range.

Signed-off-by: Wei-Lin Chang <weilin.chang at arm.com>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_nested.h |  2 ++
 arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c                |  7 +++--
 arch/arm64/kvm/nested.c             | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 3 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_nested.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_nested.h
index ffa3fa01f3cd..4e7d89b6824b 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_nested.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_nested.h
@@ -170,6 +170,8 @@ extern int kvm_s2_handle_perm_fault(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
 				    struct kvm_s2_trans *trans);
 extern int kvm_inject_s2_fault(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 esr_el2);
 extern void kvm_nested_s2_wp(struct kvm *kvm);
+extern void kvm_nested_unmap_cipa_range(struct kvm *kvm, gpa_t cipa,
+					size_t unmap_size, bool may_block);
 extern void kvm_nested_s2_unmap(struct kvm *kvm, bool may_block);
 extern void kvm_nested_s2_flush(struct kvm *kvm);
 
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
index ddd1bbede227..241f020910d8 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -2518,8 +2518,9 @@ bool kvm_unmap_gfn_range(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_gfn_range *range)
 	__unmap_stage2_range(&kvm->arch.mmu, range->start << PAGE_SHIFT,
 			     (range->end - range->start) << PAGE_SHIFT,
 			     range->may_block);
-
-	kvm_nested_s2_unmap(kvm, range->may_block);
+	kvm_nested_unmap_cipa_range(kvm, range->start << PAGE_SHIFT,
+				    (range->end - range->start) << PAGE_SHIFT,
+				    range->may_block);
 	return false;
 }
 
@@ -2797,7 +2798,7 @@ void kvm_arch_flush_shadow_memslot(struct kvm *kvm,
 
 	write_lock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
 	kvm_stage2_unmap_range(&kvm->arch.mmu, gpa, size, true);
-	kvm_nested_s2_unmap(kvm, true);
+	kvm_nested_unmap_cipa_range(kvm, gpa, size, true);
 	write_unlock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
 }
 
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/nested.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/nested.c
index 2a4c86df404c..0dc5824c8237 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/nested.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/nested.c
@@ -886,9 +886,8 @@ void kvm_remove_guest_s2_mappings(struct kvm_s2_mmu *mmu, gpa_t nipa,
 	gpa_t nipa_end = nipa + size - 1;
 
 	/*
-	 * Guest s2 tracking interval trees are only accessed while holding the
-	 * mmu_lock, hence we don't have to take guest_s2_tracking_lock if the
-	 * mmu_lock is held for write.
+	 * See kvm_nested_unmap_cipa_range() for why guest_s2_tracking_lock
+	 * isn't taken here.
 	 */
 	lockdep_assert_held_write(&kvm_s2_mmu_to_kvm(mmu)->mmu_lock);
 
@@ -1286,6 +1285,48 @@ void kvm_nested_s2_wp(struct kvm *kvm)
 	kvm_invalidate_vncr_ipa(kvm, 0, BIT(kvm->arch.mmu.pgt->ia_bits));
 }
 
+void kvm_nested_unmap_cipa_range(struct kvm *kvm, gpa_t cipa, size_t unmap_size,
+				 bool may_block)
+{
+	gpa_t cipa_end = cipa + unmap_size - 1;
+	struct kvm_guest_s2_mapping *mapping;
+	struct interval_tree_node *node;
+	size_t mapping_size;
+
+	/*
+	 * Guest s2 tracking interval trees are only accessed while holding the
+	 * mmu_lock, hence we don't have to take guest_s2_tracking_lock if the
+	 * mmu_lock is held for write. This saves us from having to manually
+	 * lock/unlock guest_s2_tracking_lock below around
+	 * cond_resched_rwlock_write().
+	 */
+	lockdep_assert_held_write(&kvm->mmu_lock);
+
+	if (!kvm->arch.nested_mmus_size)
+		return;
+
+	while ((node = interval_tree_iter_first(&kvm->arch.mmu.guest_s2_mappings,
+						cipa, cipa_end))) {
+		mapping = container_of(node, struct kvm_guest_s2_mapping,
+				       canonical);
+		mapping_size = mapping->nested.last - mapping->nested.start + 1;
+
+		if (WARN_ON_ONCE(kvm_pgtable_stage2_unmap(mapping->nested_mmu->pgt,
+							  mapping->nested.start,
+							  mapping_size)))
+			return;
+
+		interval_tree_remove(node, &kvm->arch.mmu.guest_s2_mappings);
+		interval_tree_remove(&mapping->nested, &mapping->nested_mmu->guest_s2_mappings);
+		kfree(mapping);
+
+		if (may_block)
+			cond_resched_rwlock_write(&kvm->mmu_lock);
+	}
+
+	kvm_invalidate_vncr_ipa(kvm, cipa, cipa + unmap_size);
+}
+
 void kvm_nested_s2_unmap(struct kvm *kvm, bool may_block)
 {
 	int i;
-- 
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