[PATCH 0/4] KVM: arm64: Reduce overhead of full S2 teardown
Marc Zyngier
maz at kernel.org
Sat Sep 12 03:48:30 PDT 2026
Tearing down a full S2 is a pretty involved process, resulting in a
lot of TLB invalidation. These TLBIs are either on a per leaf basis if
the HW doesn't support range invalidation, or by top-level range if it
does. Amusingly, the latter occurs even when nothing has been
unmapped.
Things are made worse with NV, as we have a bucket-load of shadow S2s,
and the need to invalidate them all on the back of an MMU notifier.
The latter will eventually be solved by the reverse-map tracking that
Wei-Lin is working on, but we need to be better at full-S2 teardown.
This small series adds a "no TLBI" unmapping primitive, which allows
the caller to then whack the TLBs using a VMID-wide invalidation. This
results in far fewer TLBIs, and a better recursive virtualisation as
we get far fewer traps as a consequence.
This applies on top of my shadow-s2 lifetime fixes, and is expected to
be a prefix to Wei-Lin's series.
Marc Zyngier (4):
KVM: arm64: pgtable: Add Stage-2 unmap without TLBI primitive
KVM: arm64: MMU: Add kvm_stage2_unmap_all() helper
KVM: arm64: nv: Move full s2_mmu unmap over to kvm_stage2_unmap_all()
KVM: arm64: nv: Move TLBI VMALLS12E1* emulation over to
kvm_stage2_unmap_all()
arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h | 1 +
arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pgtable.h | 17 +++++++++++++
arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pkvm.h | 1 +
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c | 38 +++++++++++++++++++++-------
arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c | 15 +++++++++++
arch/arm64/kvm/nested.c | 4 +--
arch/arm64/kvm/pkvm.c | 2 ++
arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c | 18 ++++++-------
8 files changed, 75 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
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