Re: [PATCH v6 13/38] KVM: arm64: Enable access to sanitized CPU features at EL2

From: Will Deacon
Date: Mon Mar 22 2021 - 07:25:44 EST


On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 10:01:21AM +0000, Quentin Perret wrote:
> Introduce the infrastructure in KVM enabling to copy CPU feature
> registers into EL2-owned data-structures, to allow reading sanitised
> values directly at EL2 in nVHE.
>
> Given that only a subset of these features are being read by the
> hypervisor, the ones that need to be copied are to be listed under
> <asm/kvm_cpufeature.h> together with the name of the nVHE variable that
> will hold the copy. This introduces only the infrastructure enabling
> this copy. The first users will follow shortly.
>
> Signed-off-by: Quentin Perret <qperret@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h | 1 +
> arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_cpufeature.h | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 4 ++++
> arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c | 13 +++++++++++++
> arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
> 5 files changed, 59 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_cpufeature.h

Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx>

Will