[+ Christoffer]

On 10/10/17 19:38, Dave Martin wrote:
> KVM guests cannot currently use SVE, because SVE is always
> configured to trap to EL2.
> 
> However, a guest that sees SVE reported as present in
> ID_AA64PFR0_EL1 may legitimately expect that SVE works and try to
> use it.  Instead of working, the guest will receive an injected
> undef exception, which may cause the guest to oops or go into a
> spin.
> 
> To avoid misleading the guest into believing that SVE will work,
> this patch masks out the SVE field from ID_AA64PFR0_EL1 when a
> guest attempts to read this register.  No support is explicitly
> added for ID_AA64ZFR0_EL1 either, so that is still emulated as
> reading as zero, which is consistent with SVE not being
> implemented.
> 
> This is a temporary measure, and will be removed in a later series
> when full KVM support for SVE is implemented.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <[email protected]>
> Reviewed-by: Alex BennĂ©e <[email protected]>
> Cc: Marc Zyngier <[email protected]>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c | 12 +++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c
> index b1f7552..a0ee9b0 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c
> @@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
>  #include <linux/bsearch.h>
>  #include <linux/kvm_host.h>
>  #include <linux/mm.h>
> +#include <linux/printk.h>
>  #include <linux/uaccess.h>
>  
>  #include <asm/cacheflush.h>
> @@ -897,8 +898,17 @@ static u64 read_id_reg(struct sys_reg_desc const *r, 
> bool raz)
>  {
>       u32 id = sys_reg((u32)r->Op0, (u32)r->Op1,
>                        (u32)r->CRn, (u32)r->CRm, (u32)r->Op2);
> +     u64 val = raz ? 0 : read_sanitised_ftr_reg(id);
>  
> -     return raz ? 0 : read_sanitised_ftr_reg(id);
> +     if (id == SYS_ID_AA64PFR0_EL1) {
> +             if (val & (0xfUL << ID_AA64PFR0_SVE_SHIFT))
> +                     pr_err_once("kvm [%i]: SVE unsupported for guests, 
> suppressing\n",
> +                                 task_pid_nr(current));
> +
> +             val &= ~(0xfUL << ID_AA64PFR0_SVE_SHIFT);
> +     }
> +
> +     return val;
>  }
>  
>  /* cpufeature ID register access trap handlers */
> 

Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <[email protected]>

        M.
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