[PATCH v3] KVM: arm64: Trap guest MPAM accesses whenever MPAM is implemented

From: Fuad Tabba

Date: Fri Sep 11 2026 - 06:49:03 EST


finalise_el2_state() clears the EL2 MPAM traps whenever the ID
registers advertise MPAM, while KVM sets them only under ARM64_MPAM,
which also requires MPAMEN. Without EL3 nothing sets that enable, so a
guest reaches the MPAM registers while ID_AA64PFR0_EL1.MPAM reads 0
for it.

Gate on what finalise_el2_state() tests instead: this CPU's ID
registers with the arm64.nompam override applied, and its
MPAMIDR_EL1.HAS_HCR before writing MPAMHCR_EL2, which is UNDEFINED
without it. MPAMEN isn't a term in any MPAM accessor, so the traps
take effect without it.

Fixes: 31ff96c38ea3 ("KVM: arm64: Fix missing traps of guest accesses to the MPAM registers")
Signed-off-by: Fuad Tabba <fuad.tabba@xxxxxxxxx>
---

Notes:
Changes since v2:
- A per-CPU flag in kvm_host_data, set at KVM's CPU init from the ID
registers with the override applied, instead of a third cpucap
(Will). The probe checks presence only, since MPAM3_EL3.TRAPLOWER
can't be read at EL2.
- The MPAMHCR_EL2 branch reads this CPU's MPAMIDR_EL1 rather than the
sanitised ARM64_MPAM_HCR, which would otherwise have been the one
system-wide test left in a per-CPU function.
- Fixes: names the KVM commit that left this case open, rather than
the head.S commit that cleared the traps.
- Yuan's Reviewed-by dropped, since the mechanism changed.

v2: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260908145651.2828597-1-fuad.tabba@xxxxxxxxx/
v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260903160819.831518-1-fuad.tabba@xxxxxxxxx/

arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 1 +
arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c | 7 +++++++
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/hyp/switch.h | 13 ++++++++-----
3 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
index 27fe0cd5b2d7a..98ca2d9b9e18d 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
@@ -755,6 +755,7 @@ struct kvm_host_data {
#define KVM_HOST_DATA_FLAG_VCPU_IN_HYP_CONTEXT 4
#define KVM_HOST_DATA_FLAG_L1_VNCR_MAPPED 5
#define KVM_HOST_DATA_FLAG_HAS_BRBE 6
+#define KVM_HOST_DATA_FLAG_HAS_MPAM 7
unsigned long flags;

struct kvm_cpu_context host_ctxt;
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c
index 8b080804bc90b..fde75a63cf045 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c
@@ -2281,9 +2281,16 @@ static void cpu_set_hyp_vector(void)

static void cpu_hyp_init_context(void)
{
+ u64 pfr0 = __read_sysreg_by_encoding(SYS_ID_AA64PFR0_EL1);
+ u64 pfr1 = __read_sysreg_by_encoding(SYS_ID_AA64PFR1_EL1);
+
kvm_init_host_cpu_context(host_data_ptr(host_ctxt));
kvm_init_host_debug_data();

+ /* The traps take effect without MPAMEN, which ARM64_MPAM requires. */
+ if (id_aa64pfr0_mpam(pfr0) || id_aa64pfr1_mpamfrac(pfr1))
+ host_data_set_flag(HAS_MPAM);
+
if (!is_kernel_in_hyp_mode())
cpu_init_hyp_mode();
}
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/hyp/switch.h b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/hyp/switch.h
index 1ce7130e25490..2cb611e2bd69b 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/hyp/switch.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/hyp/switch.h
@@ -298,14 +298,17 @@ static inline void __activate_traps_mpam(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
u64 clr = MPAM2_EL2_EnMPAMSM;
u64 set = MPAM2_EL2_TRAPMPAM0EL1 | MPAM2_EL2_TRAPMPAM1EL1;

- if (!system_supports_mpam())
+ if (!host_data_test_flag(HAS_MPAM))
return;

/* trap guest access to MPAMIDR_EL1 */
- if (system_supports_mpam_hcr()) {
+ if (read_sysreg_s(SYS_MPAMIDR_EL1) & MPAMIDR_EL1_HAS_HCR) {
write_sysreg_s(MPAMHCR_EL2_TRAP_MPAMIDR_EL1, SYS_MPAMHCR_EL2);
} else {
- /* From v1.1 TIDR can trap MPAMIDR, set it unconditionally */
+ /*
+ * TIDR is RES0 without MPAMIDR_EL1.HAS_TIDR, which MPAM v1.0
+ * prohibits: such a PE without HAS_HCR can't trap MPAMIDR_EL1.
+ */
set |= MPAM2_EL2_TIDR;
}

@@ -317,12 +320,12 @@ static inline void __deactivate_traps_mpam(void)
u64 clr = MPAM2_EL2_TRAPMPAM0EL1 | MPAM2_EL2_TRAPMPAM1EL1 | MPAM2_EL2_TIDR;
u64 set = MPAM2_EL2_EnMPAMSM;

- if (!system_supports_mpam())
+ if (!host_data_test_flag(HAS_MPAM))
return;

sysreg_clear_set_s(SYS_MPAM2_EL2, clr, set);

- if (system_supports_mpam_hcr())
+ if (read_sysreg_s(SYS_MPAMIDR_EL1) & MPAMIDR_EL1_HAS_HCR)
write_sysreg_s(MPAMHCR_HOST_FLAGS, SYS_MPAMHCR_EL2);
}

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