[PATCH 14/17] KVM: arm64: Use noclear for PGD in __pkvm_init_vm error path
Vincent Donnefort
vdonnefort at google.com
Wed May 20 08:26:47 PDT 2026
In the error path of __pkvm_init_vm(), use unmap_donated_memory_noclear()
instead of the clearing variant to release the donated stage-2 PGD back
to the host.
This intends to eliminate the clearing variant of
unmap_donated_memory(), as zeroing the PGD memory before returning it to
the host is unnecessary in this failure path.
Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort at google.com>
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/pkvm.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/pkvm.c
index ebdbe9c92689..3e7f7606a3da 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/pkvm.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/pkvm.c
@@ -845,7 +845,7 @@ int __pkvm_init_vm(struct kvm *host_kvm, unsigned long vm_hva,
err_remove_mappings:
unmap_donated_memory(hyp_vm, vm_size);
- unmap_donated_memory(pgd, pgd_size);
+ unmap_donated_memory_noclear(pgd, pgd_size);
err_unpin_kvm:
hyp_unpin_shared_mem(host_kvm, host_kvm + 1);
return ret;
--
2.54.0.631.ge1b05301d1-goog
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