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authorClaudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>2026-02-04 16:02:56 +0100
committerClaudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>2026-02-04 17:00:10 +0100
commit0fdd5c18a99cc89e829243f9f8561b37b7ebc4fc (patch)
treef7a87872e0dd374f172a65435247c133e024ebb4
parent728b0e21b473ad8097185fb85ce2b9ab1ddf4ef7 (diff)
KVM: s390: Enable 1M pages for gmap
While userspace is allowed to have pages of any size, the new gmap would always use 4k pages to back the guest. Enable 1M pages for gmap. This allows 1M pages to be used to back a guest when userspace is using 1M pages for the corresponding addresses (e.g. THP or hugetlbfs). Remove the limitation that disallowed having nested guests and hugepages at the same time. Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>
-rw-r--r--arch/s390/kvm/gmap.c2
-rw-r--r--arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c6
-rw-r--r--arch/s390/kvm/pv.c3
3 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/arch/s390/kvm/gmap.c b/arch/s390/kvm/gmap.c
index fea1c66fcabe..da222962ef6d 100644
--- a/arch/s390/kvm/gmap.c
+++ b/arch/s390/kvm/gmap.c
@@ -620,7 +620,7 @@ static inline bool gmap_2g_allowed(struct gmap *gmap, gfn_t gfn)
static inline bool gmap_1m_allowed(struct gmap *gmap, gfn_t gfn)
{
- return false;
+ return test_bit(GMAP_FLAG_ALLOW_HPAGE_1M, &gmap->flags);
}
int gmap_link(struct kvm_s390_mmu_cache *mc, struct gmap *gmap, struct guest_fault *f)
diff --git a/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c b/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c
index bde55761bf8a..ac7b5f56f0b5 100644
--- a/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c
+++ b/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c
@@ -851,6 +851,7 @@ int kvm_vm_ioctl_enable_cap(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_enable_cap *cap)
r = -EINVAL;
else {
r = 0;
+ set_bit(GMAP_FLAG_ALLOW_HPAGE_1M, &kvm->arch.gmap->flags);
/*
* We might have to create fake 4k page
* tables. To avoid that the hardware works on
@@ -5729,11 +5730,6 @@ static int __init kvm_s390_init(void)
return -ENODEV;
}
- if (nested && hpage) {
- pr_info("A KVM host that supports nesting cannot back its KVM guests with huge pages\n");
- return -EINVAL;
- }
-
for (i = 0; i < 16; i++)
kvm_s390_fac_base[i] |=
stfle_fac_list[i] & nonhyp_mask(i);
diff --git a/arch/s390/kvm/pv.c b/arch/s390/kvm/pv.c
index a48a8afd40df..461b413c76a3 100644
--- a/arch/s390/kvm/pv.c
+++ b/arch/s390/kvm/pv.c
@@ -721,6 +721,9 @@ int kvm_s390_pv_init_vm(struct kvm *kvm, u16 *rc, u16 *rrc)
uvcb.flags.ap_allow_instr = kvm->arch.model.uv_feat_guest.ap;
uvcb.flags.ap_instr_intr = kvm->arch.model.uv_feat_guest.ap_intr;
+ clear_bit(GMAP_FLAG_ALLOW_HPAGE_1M, &kvm->arch.gmap->flags);
+ gmap_split_huge_pages(kvm->arch.gmap);
+
cc = uv_call_sched(0, (u64)&uvcb);
*rc = uvcb.header.rc;
*rrc = uvcb.header.rrc;