From: Patrick Roy <patrick.roy@campus.lmu.de>
Cc: Patrick Roy <roypat@amazon.co.uk>,
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Subject: [PATCH v7 02/12] x86/tlb: export flush_tlb_kernel_range to KVM module
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2025 16:10:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250924151101.2225820-3-patrick.roy@campus.lmu.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250924151101.2225820-1-patrick.roy@campus.lmu.de>
From: Patrick Roy <roypat@amazon.co.uk>
After direct map removal, a TLB flush can be done to ensure that the
just-unmapped memory cannot be accessed through stale TLB entries. This
is particularly useful on modern hardware, where one can not rely on
timely TLB-eviction to ensure these entries go away.
This export is only needed on x86, as arm64 (the only other architecture
supporting guest_memfd currently) does not allow building KVM as a
module.
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Patrick Roy <roypat@amazon.co.uk>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h | 3 ++-
arch/x86/mm/tlb.c | 1 +
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h
index 00daedfefc1b..6f57f7eb621b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h
@@ -317,7 +317,6 @@ extern void flush_tlb_all(void);
extern void flush_tlb_mm_range(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start,
unsigned long end, unsigned int stride_shift,
bool freed_tables);
-extern void flush_tlb_kernel_range(unsigned long start, unsigned long end);
static inline void flush_tlb_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long a)
{
@@ -483,6 +482,8 @@ static inline void cpu_tlbstate_update_lam(unsigned long lam, u64 untag_mask)
#endif
#endif /* !MODULE */
+extern void flush_tlb_kernel_range(unsigned long start, unsigned long end);
+
static inline void __native_tlb_flush_global(unsigned long cr4)
{
native_write_cr4(cr4 ^ X86_CR4_PGE);
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c b/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
index 39f80111e6f1..dee5018bceeb 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
@@ -1541,6 +1541,7 @@ void flush_tlb_kernel_range(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
put_flush_tlb_info();
}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_FOR_MODULES(flush_tlb_kernel_range, "kvm");
/*
* This can be used from process context to figure out what the value of
--
2.51.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-09-24 15:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-09-24 15:10 [PATCH v7 00/12] Direct Map Removal Support for guest_memfd Patrick Roy
2025-09-24 15:10 ` [PATCH v7 01/12] arch: export set_direct_map_valid_noflush to KVM module Patrick Roy
2025-09-24 15:10 ` Patrick Roy [this message]
2025-09-24 15:10 ` [PATCH v7 03/12] mm: introduce AS_NO_DIRECT_MAP Patrick Roy
2025-09-24 15:22 ` [PATCH v7 04/12] KVM: guest_memfd: Add stub for kvm_arch_gmem_invalidate Roy, Patrick
2025-09-24 15:22 ` [PATCH v7 05/12] KVM: guest_memfd: Add flag to remove from direct map Roy, Patrick
2025-09-25 11:00 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-09-25 15:52 ` Roy, Patrick
2025-09-25 19:28 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-09-26 14:49 ` Patrick Roy
2025-10-31 17:30 ` Brendan Jackman
2025-11-01 9:39 ` Mike Rapoport
2025-11-03 10:35 ` Brendan Jackman
2025-11-03 10:50 ` Mike Rapoport
2025-11-04 11:08 ` Brendan Jackman
2025-11-10 12:34 ` Mike Rapoport
2025-11-03 7:57 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2025-12-05 17:23 ` Nikita Kalyazin
2025-09-24 15:22 ` [PATCH v7 06/12] KVM: guest_memfd: add module param for disabling TLB flushing Roy, Patrick
2025-09-25 11:02 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-09-25 15:50 ` Roy, Patrick
2025-09-25 19:32 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-09-25 18:27 ` Dave Hansen
2025-09-25 19:20 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-09-25 19:59 ` Dave Hansen
2025-09-25 20:13 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-09-26 9:46 ` Patrick Roy
2025-09-26 10:53 ` Will Deacon
2025-09-26 20:09 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-09-27 7:38 ` Patrick Roy
2025-09-29 10:20 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-10-11 14:32 ` Patrick Roy
2025-11-07 15:29 ` Ackerley Tng
2025-11-07 17:22 ` Nikita Kalyazin
2025-11-07 17:21 ` Nikita Kalyazin
2025-10-30 16:05 ` Brendan Jackman
2025-10-31 18:31 ` Brendan Jackman
2025-09-24 15:22 ` [PATCH v7 07/12] KVM: selftests: load elf via bounce buffer Roy, Patrick
2025-09-24 15:22 ` [PATCH v7 08/12] KVM: selftests: set KVM_MEM_GUEST_MEMFD in vm_mem_add() if guest_memfd != -1 Roy, Patrick
2025-09-24 15:22 ` [PATCH v7 09/12] KVM: selftests: Add guest_memfd based vm_mem_backing_src_types Roy, Patrick
2025-09-24 15:22 ` [PATCH v7 10/12] KVM: selftests: cover GUEST_MEMFD_FLAG_NO_DIRECT_MAP in existing selftests Roy, Patrick
2025-09-24 15:22 ` [PATCH v7 11/12] KVM: selftests: stuff vm_mem_backing_src_type into vm_shape Roy, Patrick
2025-09-24 15:22 ` [PATCH v7 12/12] KVM: selftests: Test guest execution from direct map removed gmem Roy, Patrick
2025-10-30 17:18 ` Brendan Jackman
2025-12-05 17:24 ` Nikita Kalyazin
2025-09-25 10:26 ` [PATCH v7 04/12] KVM: guest_memfd: Add stub for kvm_arch_gmem_invalidate David Hildenbrand
2025-09-25 10:25 ` [PATCH v7 03/12] mm: introduce AS_NO_DIRECT_MAP David Hildenbrand
2025-09-24 15:29 ` [PATCH v7 00/12] Direct Map Removal Support for guest_memfd Roy, Patrick
2025-09-24 15:38 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-11-07 15:54 ` Brendan Jackman
2025-11-07 17:23 ` Nikita Kalyazin
2025-11-07 18:04 ` Brendan Jackman
2025-11-07 18:11 ` Nikita Kalyazin
2025-11-10 15:36 ` Brendan Jackman
2025-11-07 17:37 ` Brendan Jackman
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