[PATCH v4 06/21] x86/fpu: Ignore APX when copying from/to guest FPU
From: Chang S. Bae
Date: Mon May 11 2026 - 21:45:36 EST
From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
KVM will store APX extended GPRs directly in the regs[] field of struct
kvm_vcpu. This is done to make accessors more uniform between GPRs and
EGPRs, and partly because x86 maintainers expressed the desire to compile
Linux with APX enabled sooner or later; accessing guest EGPRs from KVM's
C code would get in the way.
Therefore, let KVM handle the APX feature on its own when executing
ioctls to get and set the virtual machine's XSAVE state.
Cc: x86@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
[ chang: adjust function prototype ]
Signed-off-by: Chang S. Bae <chang.seok.bae@xxxxxxxxx>
---
V3 -> V4: New patch
---
arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/api.h | 2 +-
arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c | 9 +++++++--
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/api.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/api.h
index cd6f194a912b..0b218f5eaafd 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/api.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/api.h
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ static inline void fpu_sync_guest_vmexit_xfd_state(void) { }
extern void fpu_copy_guest_fpstate_to_uabi(struct fpu_guest *gfpu, void *buf,
unsigned int size, u64 xfeatures, u32 pkru);
-extern int fpu_copy_uabi_to_guest_fpstate(struct fpu_guest *gfpu, const void *buf, u64 xcr0, u32 *vpkru);
+extern int fpu_copy_uabi_to_guest_fpstate(struct fpu_guest *gfpu, void *buf, u64 xcr0, u32 *vpkru);
static inline void fpstate_set_confidential(struct fpu_guest *gfpu)
{
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c b/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c
index 608983806fd7..ae5c73faed69 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/fpu/core.c
@@ -420,6 +420,8 @@ void fpu_copy_guest_fpstate_to_uabi(struct fpu_guest *gfpu, void *buf,
struct membuf mb = { .p = buf, .left = size };
if (cpu_feature_enabled(X86_FEATURE_XSAVE)) {
+ /* Up to date APX registers are in struct kvm_vcpu anyway. */
+ xfeatures &= ~XFEATURE_MASK_APX;
__copy_xstate_to_uabi_buf(mb, kstate, xfeatures, pkru,
XSTATE_COPY_XSAVE);
} else {
@@ -431,11 +433,11 @@ void fpu_copy_guest_fpstate_to_uabi(struct fpu_guest *gfpu, void *buf,
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_FOR_KVM(fpu_copy_guest_fpstate_to_uabi);
-int fpu_copy_uabi_to_guest_fpstate(struct fpu_guest *gfpu, const void *buf,
+int fpu_copy_uabi_to_guest_fpstate(struct fpu_guest *gfpu, void *buf,
u64 xcr0, u32 *vpkru)
{
struct fpstate *kstate = gfpu->fpstate;
- const union fpregs_state *ustate = buf;
+ union fpregs_state *ustate = buf;
if (!cpu_feature_enabled(X86_FEATURE_XSAVE)) {
if (ustate->xsave.header.xfeatures & ~XFEATURE_MASK_FPSSE)
@@ -464,6 +466,9 @@ int fpu_copy_uabi_to_guest_fpstate(struct fpu_guest *gfpu, const void *buf,
if (!(ustate->xsave.header.xfeatures & XFEATURE_MASK_PKRU))
vpkru = NULL;
+ /* APX registers are copied to and from struct kvm_vcpu, not the FPU. */
+ ustate->xsave.header.xfeatures &= ~XFEATURE_MASK_APX;
+
return copy_uabi_from_kernel_to_xstate(kstate, ustate, vpkru);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_FOR_KVM(fpu_copy_uabi_to_guest_fpstate);
--
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