[PATCH 10/17] KVM: arm64: Kill logging_active from kvm_s2_fault

Fuad Tabba tabba at google.com
Tue Mar 17 06:23:33 PDT 2026


On Mon, 16 Mar 2026 at 17:55, Marc Zyngier <maz at kernel.org> wrote:
>
> There are only two spots where we evaluate whether logging is
> active. Replace the boolean with calls to the relevant helper.
>
> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz at kernel.org>

Reviewed-by: Fuad Tabba <tabba at google.com>

Cheers,
/fuad
> ---
>  arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c | 10 ++++------
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
> index a5b0dd41560f6..caa5bedc79e19 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
> @@ -1723,7 +1723,6 @@ struct kvm_s2_fault {
>         bool writable;
>         bool s2_force_noncacheable;
>         kvm_pfn_t pfn;
> -       bool logging_active;
>         bool force_pte;
>         enum kvm_pgtable_prot prot;
>         struct page *page;
> @@ -1853,7 +1852,7 @@ static int kvm_s2_fault_compute_prot(const struct kvm_s2_fault_desc *s2fd,
>                          */
>                         fault->s2_force_noncacheable = true;
>                 }
> -       } else if (fault->logging_active && !kvm_is_write_fault(s2fd->vcpu)) {
> +       } else if (memslot_is_logging(s2fd->memslot) && !kvm_is_write_fault(s2fd->vcpu)) {
>                 /*
>                  * Only actually map the page as writable if this was a write
>                  * fault.
> @@ -1985,11 +1984,9 @@ static int kvm_s2_fault_map(const struct kvm_s2_fault_desc *s2fd,
>  static int user_mem_abort(const struct kvm_s2_fault_desc *s2fd)
>  {
>         bool perm_fault = kvm_vcpu_trap_is_permission_fault(s2fd->vcpu);
> -       bool logging_active = memslot_is_logging(s2fd->memslot);
>         struct kvm_s2_fault_vma_info s2vi = {};
>         struct kvm_s2_fault fault = {
> -               .logging_active = logging_active,
> -               .force_pte = logging_active,
> +               .force_pte = memslot_is_logging(s2fd->memslot),
>                 .prot = KVM_PGTABLE_PROT_R,
>         };
>         void *memcache;
> @@ -2001,7 +1998,8 @@ static int user_mem_abort(const struct kvm_s2_fault_desc *s2fd)
>          * only exception to this is when dirty logging is enabled at runtime
>          * and a write fault needs to collapse a block entry into a table.
>          */
> -       if (!perm_fault || (logging_active && kvm_is_write_fault(s2fd->vcpu))) {
> +       if (!perm_fault || (memslot_is_logging(s2fd->memslot) &&
> +                           kvm_is_write_fault(s2fd->vcpu))) {
>                 ret = prepare_mmu_memcache(s2fd->vcpu, true, &memcache);
>                 if (ret)
>                         return ret;
> --
> 2.47.3
>



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