[PATCH 11/20] KVM: arm64: Add a range to pKVM ownership selftest

Vincent Donnefort vdonnefort at google.com
Tue Sep 8 03:25:36 PDT 2026


On Mon, Sep 07, 2026 at 03:58:13PM +0100, Wei-Lin Chang wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 03, 2026 at 11:08:55AM +0100, Vincent Donnefort wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> >  void __init pkvm_ownership_selftest(void)
> >  {
> >  	unsigned long pgtable_order = 5;
> >  	unsigned long pgtable = 0;
> > -	unsigned long page = 0;
> > -	long ret = -ENOMEM;
> >  
> >  	/* Memory for the VM page-table */
> >  	pgtable = __get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL, pgtable_order);
> >  	if (!pgtable)
> > -		goto out;
> > +		return;
> 
> nit: previously this allocation failure will print a message, but not
> after the change. Is this the intention?
> 
> Thanks,
> Wei-Lin Chang

Nah, that's a good point, it should print something.

-- 
Vincent

> 
> >  
> > -	/* Page whose ownership will be tested */
> > -	page = __get_free_page(GFP_KERNEL);
> > -	if (!page)
> > -		goto out;
> > -
> > -	ret = kvm_call_hyp_nvhe(__pkvm_ownership_selftest, virt_to_pfn((void *)page),
> > -				virt_to_pfn((void *)pgtable), 1 << pgtable_order);
> > -out:
> > -	if (ret)
> > -		kvm_err("Failed to run %s (%ld)\n", __func__, ret);
> > +	__pkvm_ownership_selftest(0, pgtable, pgtable_order);
> > +	__pkvm_ownership_selftest(PMD_ORDER, pgtable, pgtable_order);
> >  
> >  	free_pages(pgtable, pgtable_order);
> > -	free_page(page);
> >  }
> >  #endif
> >  
> > -- 
> > 2.55.0.508.g3f0d502094-goog
> > 



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