[PATCH v2 1/2] KVM: arm64: Resume stage-2 teardown where the walk stopped

Fuad Tabba fuad.tabba at linux.dev
Wed Nov 4 04:44:50 PST 2026


Since commit 4ddfab5436b6 ("KVM: arm64: Reschedule as needed when
destroying the stage-2 page-tables"), kvm_stage2_destroy() walks the
IPA space one block-sized chunk at a time. The walker steps over an
invalid entry in one go, but the next walk starts at the following
chunk, so an invalid entry larger than a chunk is visited once for every
chunk it covers. Destroying a VM with a 52-bit IPA then takes 2^27 walks
with 16K pages (2^22 with 4K), however little it maps.

Have kvm_pgtable_stage2_destroy_range() return the address its walk
reached, which kvm_pgtable_walk() doesn't expose, and resume from there.
pkvm_pgtable_stage2_destroy_range() returns the end of its range, and
EL2's kvm_pgtable_stage2_destroy() ignores the value.

Suggested-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose at arm.com>
Suggested-by: Oliver Upton <oupton at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Fuad Tabba <fuad.tabba at linux.dev>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pgtable.h |  8 ++++++--
 arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pkvm.h    |  4 ++--
 arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c         | 15 ++++++++++++---
 arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c                 |  4 ++--
 arch/arm64/kvm/pkvm.c                |  8 +++++---
 5 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pgtable.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pgtable.h
index 1c9c57cd6ae40..20b988e99e074 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pgtable.h
@@ -599,9 +599,13 @@ void kvm_pgtable_stage2_destroy(struct kvm_pgtable *pgt);
  *
  * The page-table is assumed to be unreachable by any hardware walkers prior
  * to freeing and therefore no TLB invalidation is performed.
+ *
+ * Return: the address the walk reached, which can be past @addr + @size
+ * when the range ends within a block or an invalid entry, or @addr + @size
+ * if the walk fails.
  */
-void kvm_pgtable_stage2_destroy_range(struct kvm_pgtable *pgt,
-					u64 addr, u64 size);
+u64 kvm_pgtable_stage2_destroy_range(struct kvm_pgtable *pgt,
+				     u64 addr, u64 size);
 
 /**
  * kvm_pgtable_stage2_destroy_pgd() - Destroy the PGD of guest stage-2 page-table.
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pkvm.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pkvm.h
index fd042d2b54624..731632aa24520 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pkvm.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pkvm.h
@@ -349,8 +349,8 @@ int __pkvm_handle_smccc_req(struct arm_smccc_res *res);
 
 int pkvm_pgtable_stage2_init(struct kvm_pgtable *pgt, struct kvm_s2_mmu *mmu,
 			     struct kvm_pgtable_mm_ops *mm_ops);
-void pkvm_pgtable_stage2_destroy_range(struct kvm_pgtable *pgt,
-					u64 addr, u64 size);
+u64 pkvm_pgtable_stage2_destroy_range(struct kvm_pgtable *pgt,
+				      u64 addr, u64 size);
 void pkvm_pgtable_stage2_destroy_pgd(struct kvm_pgtable *pgt);
 int pkvm_pgtable_stage2_map(struct kvm_pgtable *pgt, u64 addr, u64 size, u64 phys,
 			    enum kvm_pgtable_prot prot, void *mc,
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c
index 9c83837b184d3..6bb1c0beb4dcc 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c
@@ -1653,16 +1653,25 @@ static int stage2_free_walker(const struct kvm_pgtable_visit_ctx *ctx,
 	}
 }
 
-void kvm_pgtable_stage2_destroy_range(struct kvm_pgtable *pgt,
-				       u64 addr, u64 size)
+u64 kvm_pgtable_stage2_destroy_range(struct kvm_pgtable *pgt,
+				     u64 addr, u64 size)
 {
 	struct kvm_pgtable_walker walker = {
 		.cb	= stage2_free_walker,
 		.flags	= KVM_PGTABLE_WALK_LEAF |
 			  KVM_PGTABLE_WALK_TABLE_POST,
 	};
+	struct kvm_pgtable_walk_data data = {
+		.walker	= &walker,
+		.start	= addr,
+		.addr	= addr,
+		.end	= addr + size,
+	};
 
-	WARN_ON(kvm_pgtable_walk(pgt, addr, size, &walker));
+	if (WARN_ON(_kvm_pgtable_walk(pgt, &data)))
+		return addr + size;
+
+	return data.addr;
 }
 
 void kvm_pgtable_stage2_destroy_pgd(struct kvm_pgtable *pgt)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
index 1db10d8d6db73..4f1adadeffb8b 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -1011,8 +1011,8 @@ static void stage2_destroy_range(struct kvm_pgtable *pgt, phys_addr_t addr,
 
 	do {
 		next = stage2_range_addr_end(addr, end);
-		KVM_PGT_FN(kvm_pgtable_stage2_destroy_range)(pgt, addr,
-							     next - addr);
+		next = KVM_PGT_FN(kvm_pgtable_stage2_destroy_range)(pgt, addr, next - addr);
+		next = min(next, end);
 		if (next != end)
 			cond_resched();
 	} while (addr = next, addr != end);
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/pkvm.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/pkvm.c
index 016997288fd23..f21c3326dda68 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/pkvm.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/pkvm.c
@@ -499,14 +499,14 @@ static int __pkvm_pgtable_stage2_unshare(struct kvm_pgtable *pgt, u64 start, u64
 	return 0;
 }
 
-void pkvm_pgtable_stage2_destroy_range(struct kvm_pgtable *pgt,
-					u64 addr, u64 size)
+u64 pkvm_pgtable_stage2_destroy_range(struct kvm_pgtable *pgt,
+				      u64 addr, u64 size)
 {
 	struct kvm *kvm = kvm_s2_mmu_to_kvm(pgt->mmu);
 	pkvm_handle_t handle = kvm->arch.pkvm.handle;
 
 	if (!handle)
-		return;
+		return addr + size;
 
 	if (pkvm_hyp_vm_is_created(kvm) && !kvm->arch.pkvm.is_dying) {
 		WARN_ON(kvm_call_hyp_nvhe(__pkvm_start_teardown_vm, handle));
@@ -517,6 +517,8 @@ void pkvm_pgtable_stage2_destroy_range(struct kvm_pgtable *pgt,
 		__pkvm_pgtable_stage2_reclaim(pgt, addr, addr + size);
 	else
 		__pkvm_pgtable_stage2_unshare(pgt, addr, addr + size);
+
+	return addr + size;
 }
 
 void pkvm_pgtable_stage2_destroy_pgd(struct kvm_pgtable *pgt)
-- 
2.47.3




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