Re: [PATCH v5 11/41] KVM: arm64: Force guest EL1 to use user-space's partid configuration

[Marc Zyngier]

On Tue, 24 Feb 2026 17:56:50 +0000,
Ben Horgan <ben.horgan@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> From: James Morse <james.morse@xxxxxxx>
> 
> 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>

Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx>

	M.

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