The Documentation/arm64/memory.txt says:
When using KVM, the hypervisor maps kernel pages in EL2, at a fixed
offset from the kernel VA (top 24bits of the kernel VA set to zero):
In fact, kernel addresses are transleted to HYP with kern_hyp_va macro,
which has more options, and none of them assumes clearing of top 24bits
of the kernel VA.
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Yury Norov <ynorov@caviumnetworks.com>
[will: removed gory details]
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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-When using KVM, the hypervisor maps kernel pages in EL2, at a fixed
-offset from the kernel VA (top 24bits of the kernel VA set to zero):
+When using KVM without the Virtualization Host Extensions, the hypervisor
+maps kernel pages in EL2 at a fixed offset from the kernel VA. See the
+kern_hyp_va macro for more details.
-Start End Size Use
------------------------------------------------------------------------
-0000004000000000 0000007fffffffff 256GB kernel objects mapped in HYP
+When using KVM with the Virtualization Host Extensions, no additional
+mappings are created, since the host kernel runs directly in EL2.