[PATCH v2] RISC-V: KVM: Fix guest page fault within HLV* instructions
fangyu.yu at linux.alibaba.com
fangyu.yu at linux.alibaba.com
Tue Nov 11 05:55:06 PST 2025
From: Fangyu Yu <fangyu.yu at linux.alibaba.com>
When executing HLV* instructions at the HS mode, a guest page fault
may occur when a g-stage page table migration between triggering the
virtual instruction exception and executing the HLV* instruction.
This may be a corner case, and one simpler way to handle this is to
re-execute the instruction where the virtual instruction exception
occurred, and the guest page fault will be automatically handled.
Fixes: b91f0e4cb8a3 ("RISC-V: KVM: Factor-out instruction emulation into separate sources")
Signed-off-by: Fangyu Yu <fangyu.yu at linux.alibaba.com>
---
Changes in v2:
- Remove unnecessary modifications and add comments(suggested by Anup)
- Update Fixes tag
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/20250912134332.22053-1-fangyu.yu@linux.alibaba.com/
---
arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_insn.c | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 39 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_insn.c b/arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_insn.c
index de1f96ea6225..a8d796ef2822 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_insn.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_insn.c
@@ -323,6 +323,19 @@ int kvm_riscv_vcpu_virtual_insn(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_run *run,
ct->sepc,
&utrap);
if (utrap.scause) {
+ /**
+ * If a g-stage page fault occurs, the direct approach
+ * is to let the g-stage page fault handler handle it
+ * naturally, however, calling the g-stage page fault
+ * handler here seems rather strange.
+ * Considering this is an corner case, we can directly
+ * return to the guest and re-execute the same PC, this
+ * will trigger a g-stage page fault again and then the
+ * regular g-stage page fault handler will populate
+ * g-stage page table.
+ */
+ if (utrap.scause == EXC_LOAD_GUEST_PAGE_FAULT)
+ return 1;
utrap.sepc = ct->sepc;
kvm_riscv_vcpu_trap_redirect(vcpu, &utrap);
return 1;
@@ -378,6 +391,19 @@ int kvm_riscv_vcpu_mmio_load(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_run *run,
insn = kvm_riscv_vcpu_unpriv_read(vcpu, true, ct->sepc,
&utrap);
if (utrap.scause) {
+ /**
+ * If a g-stage page fault occurs, the direct approach
+ * is to let the g-stage page fault handler handle it
+ * naturally, however, calling the g-stage page fault
+ * handler here seems rather strange.
+ * Considering this is an corner case, we can directly
+ * return to the guest and re-execute the same PC, this
+ * will trigger a g-stage page fault again and then the
+ * regular g-stage page fault handler will populate
+ * g-stage page table.
+ */
+ if (utrap.scause == EXC_LOAD_GUEST_PAGE_FAULT)
+ return 1;
/* Redirect trap if we failed to read instruction */
utrap.sepc = ct->sepc;
kvm_riscv_vcpu_trap_redirect(vcpu, &utrap);
@@ -504,6 +530,19 @@ int kvm_riscv_vcpu_mmio_store(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_run *run,
insn = kvm_riscv_vcpu_unpriv_read(vcpu, true, ct->sepc,
&utrap);
if (utrap.scause) {
+ /**
+ * If a g-stage page fault occurs, the direct approach
+ * is to let the g-stage page fault handler handle it
+ * naturally, however, calling the g-stage page fault
+ * handler here seems rather strange.
+ * Considering this is an corner case, we can directly
+ * return to the guest and re-execute the same PC, this
+ * will trigger a g-stage page fault again and then the
+ * regular g-stage page fault handler will populate
+ * g-stage page table.
+ */
+ if (utrap.scause == EXC_LOAD_GUEST_PAGE_FAULT)
+ return 1;
/* Redirect trap if we failed to read instruction */
utrap.sepc = ct->sepc;
kvm_riscv_vcpu_trap_redirect(vcpu, &utrap);
--
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