[PATCH v3 00/23] Huge mapping support for protected VMs
Vincent Donnefort
vdonnefort at google.com
Mon Nov 2 12:46:05 PST 2026
Currently, pKVM handles stage-2 mappings and ownership tracking strictly
at the PAGE_SIZE level. This series extends pKVM to support PMD_SIZE
block mappings, thereby enabling Transparent Huge Pages (THP) for
protected guests. hugetlbfs is currently unsupported as it does not
appear as swapbacked.
Summary of changes:
1. Enable host stage-2 block-level annotations:
The host stage-2 being annotated with the GFN of the guest on the
host->guest donation transitions, we allow block-level annotations to
ensure the host stage-2 mapping size matches the guest stage-2.
2. Expand ownership transition HVCs:
Enable the ownership test to work with PMD_SIZE so we can test
transitions supporting more than PAGE_SIZE.
3. Implements the PKVM_HYP_REQ_SPLIT hypervisor request:
Allows the hypervisor to ask the host to split a mapping. This ensures
the guest s2, pkvm_mapping tree and host s2 are always using the same
mapping size.
4. Wires up THP support for protected VMs:
Use a PMD_SIZE mapping for protected VMs whenever
transparent_hugepage_adjust() acknowledge the presence of a huge-mapping
in the VMM stage-1.
Changelog:
v3:
- Move get_page() in stage2_map_prefault_idmap() from PATCH2 to PATCH1 (Wei-Lin, Mostafa)
- Set map_data.phys in kvm_pgtable_stage2_annotate() (Sashiko)
- Propagate -EHWPOISON and -EAGAIN from pkvm_pin_user_pages() to protected_pkvm_mem_abort() (Sashiko)
- Fall back to PAGE_SIZE when a PMD_SIZE mapping overlaps an existing PAGE_SIZE one (Fuad)
- Reject !nr_pages in pfn_range_is_valid()
- Use mmu_invalidate_retry()
- Rebase on 7.4-rc1
v2 (https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260911135053.146435-1-vdonnefort@google.com/):
- Reorder patches to make the series bisectable.
- Check memcache and WARN_ON if stage-2 split fails in __pkvm_host_split_guest()
- __pkvm_pgtable_stage2_split(): return 0 if the block is already split.
- kvm_pgtable_stage2_table_install() to let mem_protect handle the stage-2 splitting.
- Refactor fix_host_ownership() (Wei-Lin)
- Handle non-linear mappings in fix_host_ownership()
- Drop _page_ from __pkvm_host_reclaim_page_guest and __pkvm_reclaim_dying_guest_page() (Wei-Lin)
- Make a separate patch for hyp_poison_range() (Wei-Lin)
- Use folio_add_pins in __pkvm_pgtable_stage2_split() (Wei-Lin)
- Hold the mmap_read_lock() for transparent_hugepage_adjust() (Sashiko)
- Catch 2MiB fault on existing 4KiB fault (Sashiko)
- Add share/unshare testing of split blocks.
- Rebased on 7.3-rc2
v1 (https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260803100904.3563942-1-vdonnefort@google.com/)
Keir Fraser (1):
KVM: arm64: Prefault host stage-2 entries on block split
Vincent Donnefort (22):
KVM: arm64: Propagate host stage-2 annotated entries on block split
KVM: arm64: Allow block-level stage-2 annotation
KVM: arm64: Use block-level annotations when setting up the host
stage-2
KVM: arm64: Make pKVM ownership selftest an HVC
KVM: arm64: Reject zero-sized ranges in pfn_range_is_valid()
KVM: arm64: Add a range to __pkvm_host_share/unshare_hyp()
KVM: arm64: Add a range to __pkvm_host_donate_guest()
KVM: arm64: Add a range to hyp_poison_page()
KVM: arm64: Add a range to __pkvm_host_reclaim_guest()
KVM: arm64: Add a range to __pkvm_guest_share_host()
KVM: arm64: Add a range to __pkvm_guest_unshare_host()
KVM: arm64: Handle huge mappings in
__pkvm_host_force_reclaim_page_guest()
KVM: arm64: Handle huge mappings in __pkvm_vcpu_in_poison_fault()
KVM: arm64: Add a range to pKVM ownership selftest
KVM: arm64: Warn on pKVM guest stage-2 block collapse
KVM: arm64: Add vcpu conduit for pkvm_hyp_req
KVM: arm64: Introduce kvm_pgtable_stage2_table_install()
KVM: arm64: Add __pkvm_host_split_guest HVC
KVM: arm64: Extend pKVM page ownership selftests to cover guest block
split
KVM: arm64: Add PKVM_HYP_REQ_SPLIT
KVM: arm64: Raise PKVM_HYP_REQ_SPLIT on guest to host sharing
KVM: arm64: Stage-2 huge mappings for protected VMs
arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_asm.h | 14 +-
arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_hcall.h | 10 +-
arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 31 +
arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pgtable.h | 12 +
arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pkvm.h | 35 +-
arch/arm64/kvm/handle_exit.c | 3 +
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/nvhe/mem_protect.h | 25 +-
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/nvhe/memory.h | 5 +
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/nvhe/pkvm.h | 6 +-
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/ffa.c | 12 +-
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-main.c | 43 +-
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/mem_protect.c | 591 ++++++++++++------
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/pkvm.c | 59 +-
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/setup.c | 165 +++--
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c | 139 +++-
arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c | 128 ++--
arch/arm64/kvm/pkvm.c | 247 +++++++-
arch/arm64/kvm/trace_pkvm.h | 4 +-
18 files changed, 1126 insertions(+), 403 deletions(-)
base-commit: 6628e7d4c6b25c8d18f1345e3a20d21829aae7e4
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