[PATCH 4/5] KVM: selftests: Reserve memslot 1 for the ucall MMIO address
From: Tharit Tangkijwanichakul
Date: Sat Oct 17 2026 - 07:04:54 EST
Back the ucall MMIO address with a read-only region in slot 1
when KVM_CAP_READONLY_MEM is available. Writes still exit as
MMIO, while overlapping memslot creation is rejected.
Start test memslots at slot 2, leaving slot 1 reserved by
convention even when read-only memory is unsupported.
Signed-off-by: Tharit Tangkijwanichakul <tharitt97@xxxxxxxxx>
---
.../testing/selftests/kvm/include/kvm_util.h | 2 +-
tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/kvm_util.c | 19 +++++++++++++------
2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/include/kvm_util.h b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/include/kvm_util.h
index 759d604d44ce..4dbb2ef332fc 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/include/kvm_util.h
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/include/kvm_util.h
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
#define KVM_DEV_PATH "/dev/kvm"
#define KVM_MAX_VCPUS 512
-#define TEST_MEM_SLOT_BASE 1
+#define TEST_MEM_SLOT_BASE 2
#define NSEC_PER_SEC 1000000000L
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/kvm_util.c b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/kvm_util.c
index 9ddc047d5c27..73e28814a226 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/kvm_util.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/kvm_util.c
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#define KVM_UTIL_MIN_PFN 2
+#define KVM_UCALL_MEMSLOT 1
u32 kvm_random_seed;
struct kvm_random_state kvm_rng;
@@ -492,6 +493,7 @@ struct kvm_vm *__vm_create(struct vm_shape shape, u32 nr_runnable_vcpus,
struct userspace_mem_region *slot0;
struct kvm_vm *vm;
int i, flags;
+ gpa_t mmio_gpa;
kvm_set_files_rlimit(nr_runnable_vcpus);
@@ -514,14 +516,19 @@ struct kvm_vm *__vm_create(struct vm_shape shape, u32 nr_runnable_vcpus,
kvm_vm_elf_load(vm, program_invocation_name);
- /*
- * TODO: Add proper defines to protect the library's memslots, and then
- * carve out memslot1 for the ucall MMIO address. KVM treats writes to
- * read-only memslots as MMIO, and creating a read-only memslot for the
- * MMIO region would prevent silently clobbering the MMIO region.
+ /* KVM treats writes to read-only memslots as MMIO, and creating
+ * a read-only memslot for the MMIO region would prevent silently
+ * clobbering the MMIO region.
*/
slot0 = memslot2region(vm, 0);
- ucall_init(vm, slot0->region.guest_phys_addr + slot0->region.memory_size);
+ mmio_gpa = slot0->region.guest_phys_addr + slot0->region.memory_size;
+ ucall_init(vm, mmio_gpa);
+
+ if (vm_check_cap(vm, KVM_CAP_READONLY_MEM))
+ vm_userspace_mem_region_add(vm, VM_MEM_SRC_ANONYMOUS,
+ mmio_gpa, KVM_UCALL_MEMSLOT,
+ vm_adjust_num_guest_pages(vm->mode, 1),
+ KVM_MEM_READONLY);
if (kvm_random_seed != last_kvm_seed)
kvm_seed_rng(kvm_random_seed);
--
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