[PATCH v3 1/4] KVM: arm64: Remove dead code resetting HCR_EL2 for pKVM
From: Fuad Tabba <tabba@google.com>
Date: 2026-01-22 11:22:33
Also in:
kvmarm
Subsystem:
arm64 port (aarch64 architecture), kernel virtual machine for arm64 (kvm/arm64), the rest · Maintainers:
Catalin Marinas, Will Deacon, Marc Zyngier, Oliver Upton, Linus Torvalds
The pKVM lifecycle does not support tearing down the hypervisor and returning to the hyp stub once initialized. The transition to protected mode is one-way. Consequently, the code path in hyp-init.S responsible for resetting EL2 registers (triggered by kexec or hibernation) is unreachable in protected mode. Remove the dead code handling HCR_EL2 reset for ARM64_KVM_PROTECTED_MODE. No functional change intended. Signed-off-by: Fuad Tabba <tabba@google.com> --- arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-init.S | 5 ----- 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-init.S b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-init.S
index aada42522e7b..0d42eedc7167 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-init.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-init.S@@ -260,11 +260,6 @@ reset: msr sctlr_el2, x5 isb -alternative_if ARM64_KVM_PROTECTED_MODE - mov_q x5, HCR_HOST_NVHE_FLAGS - msr_hcr_el2 x5 -alternative_else_nop_endif - /* Install stub vectors */ adr_l x5, __hyp_stub_vectors msr vbar_el2, x5
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