Re: [PATCH v5 11/41] KVM: arm64: Force guest EL1 to use user-space's partid configuration
From: Gavin Shan
Date: Mon Mar 09 2026 - 02:45:50 EST
On 2/25/26 3:56 AM, Ben Horgan wrote:
From: James Morse <james.morse@xxxxxxx>Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@xxxxxxxxxx>
While we trap the guest's attempts to read/write the MPAM control
registers, the hardware continues to use them. Guest-EL0 uses KVM's
user-space's configuration, as the value is left in the register, and
guest-EL1 uses either the host kernel's configuration, or in the case of
VHE, the UNKNOWN reset value of MPAM1_EL1.
We want to force the guest-EL1 to use KVM's user-space's MPAM
configuration. On nVHE rely on MPAM0_EL1 and MPAM1_EL1 always being
programmed the same and on VHE copy MPAM0_EL1 into the guest's
MPAM1_EL1. There is no need to restore as this is out of context once TGE
is set.
Tested-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Shaopeng Tan <tan.shaopeng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Peter Newman <peternewman@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Zeng Heng <zengheng4@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Shaopeng Tan <tan.shaopeng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <jonathan.cameron@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ben Horgan <ben.horgan@xxxxxxx>
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Changes since rfc:
Drop the unneeded __mpam_guest_load() in nvhre and the MPAM1_EL1 save restore
Defer EL2 handling until next patch
Changes since v2:
Use mask (Oliver)
Changes since v4:
Explicitly set the mpam enable bit
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arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/vhe/sysreg-sr.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)