Re: [PATCH v4 00/10] arm64: Add support for FEAT_E2H0, or lack thereof
From: Oliver Upton <hidden>
Date: 2024-02-02 19:03:59
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On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 06:13:34PM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:
Since ARMv8.1, the architecture has grown the VHE feature, which makes EL2 a superset of EL1. With ARMv9.5 (and retroactively allowed from ARMv8.1), the architecture allows implementations to have VHE as the *only* implemented behaviour, meaning that HCR_EL2.E2H can be implemented as RES1. As a follow-up, HCR_EL2.NV1 can also be implemented as RES0, making the VHE-ness of the architecture recursive. This has a number of consequences, both at boot time and for KVM, though the changes at that level are pretty minor. The real meat of this series is on the cpufeature front, as FEAT_E2H0 is a *negative* feature, where 0b1111 (-1) represents E2H being RES1 and 0b1110 (-2) additionally indicates that NV1 is RES0. Fun, isn't it?
This looks good to me. Catalin + Will, are you comfortable with the cpufeature changes at this point? No strong opinions on which tree these patches get applied to. Most of the series is non-KVM code, so I'd understand if y'all wanted it to go through arm64. OTOH, there are some other KVM features that might appear in 6.9 that build on top of this, so at minimum I'd probably need a shared branch. LMK what you think. -- Thanks, Oliver _______________________________________________ linux-arm-kernel mailing list linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel