On Thu, Feb 06, 2025 at 02:10:58PM +0000, Mark Rutland wrote:
When KVM is in VHE mode, the host kernel tries to save and restore the configuration of CPACR_EL1.SMEN (i.e. CPTR_EL2.SMEN when HCR_EL2.E2H=1) across kvm_arch_vcpu_load_fp() and kvm_arch_vcpu_put_fp(), since the configuration may be clobbered by hyp when running a vCPU. This logic has historically been broken, and is currently redundant.
This logic was originally introduced in commit:
861262ab86270206 ("KVM: arm64: Handle SME host state when running guests")
At the time, the VHE hyp code would reset CPTR_EL2.SMEN to 0b00 when returning to the host, trapping host access to SME state. Unfortunately, this was unsafe as the host could take a softirq before calling kvm_arch_vcpu_put_fp(), and if a softirq handler were to use kernel mode NEON the resulting attempt to save the live FPSIMD/SVE/SME state would result in a fatal trap.
That issue was limited to VHE mode. For nVHE/hVHE modes, KVM always saved/restored the host kernel's CPACR_EL1 value, and configured CPTR_EL2.TSM to 0b0, ensuring that host usage of SME would not be trapped.
The issue above was incidentally fixed by commit:
375110ab51dec5dc ("KVM: arm64: Fix resetting SME trap values on reset for (h)VHE")
That commit changed the VHE hyp code to configure CPTR_EL2.SMEN to 0b01 when returning to the host, permitting host kernel usage of SME, avoiding the issue described above. At the time, this was not identified as a fix for commit 861262ab86270206.
Now that the host eagerly saves and unbinds its own FPSIMD/SVE/SME state, there's no need to save/restore the state of the EL0 SME trap. The kernel can safely save/restore state without trapping, as described above, and will restore userspace state (including trap controls) before returning to userspace.
Remove the redundant logic.
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland mark.rutland@arm.com Reviewed-by: Mark Brown broonie@kernel.org Cc: Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas@arm.com Cc: Fuad Tabba tabba@google.com Cc: Marc Zyngier maz@kernel.org Cc: Mark Brown broonie@kernel.org Cc: Oliver Upton oliver.upton@linux.dev Cc: Will Deacon will@kernel.org
arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 1 - arch/arm64/kvm/fpsimd.c | 21 --------------------- 2 files changed, 22 deletions(-)
Acked-by: Will Deacon will@kernel.org
Will