[PATCH 2/2] KVM: arm64: Ensure TLBs and I-cache are private to each vCPU in pKVM
Fuad Tabba
fuad.tabba at linux.dev
Mon Oct 19 04:43:57 PDT 2026
Hi Vincent,
On Mon, 19 Oct 2026 11:00:15 +0100, Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort at google.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;
>
> Unlikely to be a problem in pratice, but vcpu_idx is "unsigned int". I wonder if
> this shouldn't be unsigned int here too and initialised to UINT_MAX?
I'd copied int and -1 from the host's mmu->last_vcpu_ran, but the
vcpu_idx it's comparing against here is unsigned int, so I'll switch to
unsigned int and UINT_MAX in v2.
Thanks,
/fuad
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