Hi Mark,

On Tue, 23 Dec 2025 at 01:21, Mark Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Currently we enable EL0 and EL1 access to FA64 and ZT0 at boot and leave
> them enabled throughout the runtime of the system. When we add KVM support
> we will need to make this configuration dynamic, these features may be
> disabled for some KVM guests. Since the host kernel saves the floating
> point state for non-protected guests and we wish to avoid KVM having to
> reload the floating point state needlessly on guest reentry let's move the
> configuration of these enables to the floating point state reload.
>
> We provide a helper which does the configuration as part of a
> read/modify/write operation along with the configuration of the task VL,
> then update the floating point state load and SME access trap to use it.
> We also remove the setting of the enable bits from the CPU feature
> identification and resume paths.  There will be a small overhead from
> setting the enables one at a time but this should be negligable in the

nit: negligible

> context of the state load or access trap.  In order to avoid compiler
> warnings due to unused variables in !CONFIG_ARM64_SME cases we avoid
> storing the vector length in temporary variables.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <[email protected]>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/fpsimd.h | 14 ++++++++++++
>  arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c  |  2 --
>  arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c      | 47 
> +++++++++++------------------------------
>  3 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/fpsimd.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/fpsimd.h
> index 1d2e33559bd5..ece65061dea0 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/fpsimd.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/fpsimd.h
> @@ -428,6 +428,18 @@ static inline size_t sme_state_size(struct task_struct 
> const *task)
>         return __sme_state_size(task_get_sme_vl(task));
>  }
>
> +#define sme_cond_update_smcr(vl, fa64, zt0, reg)               \
> +       do {                                                    \
> +               u64 __old = read_sysreg_s((reg));               \
> +               u64 __new = vl;                                 \
> +               if (fa64)                       \
> +                       __new |= SMCR_ELx_FA64;                 \
> +               if (zt0)                                        \
> +                       __new |= SMCR_ELx_EZT0;                 \
> +               if (__old != __new)                             \
> +                       write_sysreg_s(__new, (reg));           \
> +       } while (0)
> +

Should we cap the VL based on SMCR_ELx_LEN_MASK (as we do in
sve_cond_update_zcr_vq())?

Should we also preserve the remaining old bits from SMCR_EL1, i.e.,
copy over the bits that aren't
SMCR_ELx_LEN_MASK|SMCR_ELx_FA64|SMCR_ELx_EZT0? For now they are RES0,
but that could change.

Cheers,
/fuad


>  #else
>
>  static inline void sme_user_disable(void) { BUILD_BUG(); }
> @@ -456,6 +468,8 @@ static inline size_t sme_state_size(struct task_struct 
> const *task)
>         return 0;
>  }
>
> +#define sme_cond_update_smcr(val, fa64, zt0, reg) do { } while (0)
> +
>  #endif /* ! CONFIG_ARM64_SME */
>
>  /* For use by EFI runtime services calls only */
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
> index c840a93b9ef9..ca9e66cc62d8 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
> @@ -2965,7 +2965,6 @@ static const struct arm64_cpu_capabilities 
> arm64_features[] = {
>                 .type = ARM64_CPUCAP_SYSTEM_FEATURE,
>                 .capability = ARM64_SME_FA64,
>                 .matches = has_cpuid_feature,
> -               .cpu_enable = cpu_enable_fa64,
>                 ARM64_CPUID_FIELDS(ID_AA64SMFR0_EL1, FA64, IMP)
>         },
>         {
> @@ -2973,7 +2972,6 @@ static const struct arm64_cpu_capabilities 
> arm64_features[] = {
>                 .type = ARM64_CPUCAP_SYSTEM_FEATURE,
>                 .capability = ARM64_SME2,
>                 .matches = has_cpuid_feature,
> -               .cpu_enable = cpu_enable_sme2,
>                 ARM64_CPUID_FIELDS(ID_AA64PFR1_EL1, SME, SME2)
>         },
>  #endif /* CONFIG_ARM64_SME */
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c
> index c154f72634e0..be4499ff6498 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c
> @@ -405,11 +405,15 @@ static void task_fpsimd_load(void)
>
>         /* Restore SME, override SVE register configuration if needed */
>         if (system_supports_sme()) {
> -               unsigned long sme_vl = task_get_sme_vl(current);
> -
> -               /* Ensure VL is set up for restoring data */
> +               /*
> +                * Ensure VL is set up for restoring data.  KVM might
> +                * disable subfeatures so we reset them each time.
> +                */
>                 if (test_thread_flag(TIF_SME))
> -                       sme_set_vq(sve_vq_from_vl(sme_vl) - 1);
> +                       
> sme_cond_update_smcr(sve_vq_from_vl(task_get_sme_vl(current)) - 1,
> +                                            system_supports_fa64(),
> +                                            system_supports_sme2(),
> +                                            SYS_SMCR_EL1);
>
>                 write_sysreg_s(current->thread.svcr, SYS_SVCR);
>
> @@ -1250,26 +1254,6 @@ void cpu_enable_sme(const struct 
> arm64_cpu_capabilities *__always_unused p)
>         isb();
>  }
>
> -void cpu_enable_sme2(const struct arm64_cpu_capabilities *__always_unused p)
> -{
> -       /* This must be enabled after SME */
> -       BUILD_BUG_ON(ARM64_SME2 <= ARM64_SME);
> -
> -       /* Allow use of ZT0 */
> -       write_sysreg_s(read_sysreg_s(SYS_SMCR_EL1) | SMCR_ELx_EZT0_MASK,
> -                      SYS_SMCR_EL1);
> -}
> -
> -void cpu_enable_fa64(const struct arm64_cpu_capabilities *__always_unused p)
> -{
> -       /* This must be enabled after SME */
> -       BUILD_BUG_ON(ARM64_SME_FA64 <= ARM64_SME);
> -
> -       /* Allow use of FA64 */
> -       write_sysreg_s(read_sysreg_s(SYS_SMCR_EL1) | SMCR_ELx_FA64_MASK,
> -                      SYS_SMCR_EL1);
> -}
> -
>  void __init sme_setup(void)
>  {
>         struct vl_info *info = &vl_info[ARM64_VEC_SME];
> @@ -1314,17 +1298,9 @@ void __init sme_setup(void)
>
>  void sme_suspend_exit(void)
>  {
> -       u64 smcr = 0;
> -
>         if (!system_supports_sme())
>                 return;
>
> -       if (system_supports_fa64())
> -               smcr |= SMCR_ELx_FA64;
> -       if (system_supports_sme2())
> -               smcr |= SMCR_ELx_EZT0;
> -
> -       write_sysreg_s(smcr, SYS_SMCR_EL1);
>         write_sysreg_s(0, SYS_SMPRI_EL1);
>  }
>
> @@ -1439,9 +1415,10 @@ void do_sme_acc(unsigned long esr, struct pt_regs 
> *regs)
>                 WARN_ON(1);
>
>         if (!test_thread_flag(TIF_FOREIGN_FPSTATE)) {
> -               unsigned long vq_minus_one =
> -                       sve_vq_from_vl(task_get_sme_vl(current)) - 1;
> -               sme_set_vq(vq_minus_one);
> +               sme_cond_update_smcr(sve_vq_from_vl(task_get_sme_vl(current)) 
> - 1,
> +                                    system_supports_fa64(),
> +                                    system_supports_sme2(),
> +                                    SYS_SMCR_EL1);
>
>                 fpsimd_bind_task_to_cpu();
>         } else {
>
> --
> 2.47.3
>

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