[PATCH v2 03/18] KVM: arm64: Add __hyp_allocator_map for the pKVM hyp
Vincent Donnefort
vdonnefort at google.com
Wed Jul 15 01:58:23 PDT 2026
On Tue, Jul 14, 2026 at 06:53:55PM +0100, Fuad Tabba wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Jul 2026 at 18:54, Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort at google.com> wrote:
> >
> > In preparation for the pKVM heap allocator, introduce __hyp_allocator_map()
> > to map a single physical page to a given virtual address in the hypervisor
> > stage-1 page-table.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort at google.com>
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/nvhe/mm.h b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/nvhe/mm.h
> > index 725bb0fb941d..98a7774b541c 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/nvhe/mm.h
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/nvhe/mm.h
> > @@ -32,5 +32,6 @@ int __pkvm_create_private_mapping(phys_addr_t phys, size_t size,
> > int pkvm_create_stack(phys_addr_t phys, unsigned long *haddr);
> > int pkvm_alloc_private_va_range(size_t size, unsigned long *haddr);
> > phys_addr_t __pkvm_private_range_pa(void *va);
> > +int __hyp_allocator_map(void *va, phys_addr_t phys);
> >
> > #endif /* __KVM_HYP_MM_H */
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/mm.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/mm.c
> > index ec59da1322a7..c1c01f81ac5f 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/mm.c
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/mm.c
> > @@ -160,6 +160,11 @@ void pkvm_remove_mappings(void *from, void *to)
> > hyp_spin_unlock(&pkvm_pgd_lock);
> > }
> >
> > +int __hyp_allocator_map(void *va, phys_addr_t phys)
> > +{
> > + return __pkvm_create_mappings((unsigned long)va, PAGE_SIZE, phys, PAGE_HYP);
> > +}
> > +
>
> nit: __hyp_allocator_map() is named for its caller rather than what it does
> (map a single hyp page). Its siblings here (pkvm_create_mappings,
> pkvm_remove_mappings) are named for the operation. Consider a name like
> pkvm_map_page() so it reads as a generic primitive.
IIRC (it was a few years ago) this was a suggestion from Quentin who didn't want
to expose too much of mm and suggested to make it clear that was a function
private to the allocator.
But looking at what we have now. perhaps
int __pkvm_map_private_pages(phys_addr_t phys, void *addr, size_t size);
And this could verify that addr is actually aprt of the private range
WDYS?
>
> That said, naming is hard:
>
> Reviewed-by: Fuad Tabba <fuad.tabba at linux.dev>
>
> Cheers,
> /fuad
>
> > int hyp_back_vmemmap(phys_addr_t back)
> > {
> > unsigned long i, start, size, end = 0;
> > --
> > 2.55.0.rc2.803.g1fd1e6609c-goog
> >
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