[PATCH 2/2] KVM: arm64: Ensure TLBs and I-cache are private to each vCPU in pKVM

[Fuad Tabba]

Hi Joey,

On Wed, 14 Oct 2026 16:53:39 +0100, Joey Gouly <joey.gouly at arm.com> wrote:
[...]
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/nvhe/pkvm.h b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/nvhe/pkvm.h
[...]
> > @@ -54,6 +54,9 @@ struct pkvm_hyp_vm {
> >          unsigned short refcount;
> >          hyp_spinlock_t lock;
> >  
> > +        /* Per physical CPU, the vcpu_idx of the last vCPU of this VM loaded there. */
> > +        int *last_vcpu_ran;
> 
> Trying to think of a better way to reword this, it's an array indexed by
> pCPU, not per cpu in the normal linux way. Unlike `mmu->last_vcpu_ran`
> which really is per_cpu. Maybe I'm just being nitpicky, and it's fine as
> is!

Agreed, "Per physical CPU" reads as a per_cpu variable, which it
wasn't. After Marc's comment on patch 1 [1], it's a real per-CPU
variable in v2, indexed by the VM's table entry.

Thanks,
/fuad

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/86y0buyo5s.wl-maz@kernel.org/