From: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
To: kvmarm@lists.linux.dev, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Joey Gouly <joey.gouly@arm.com>,
Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>,
Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>,
Zenghui Yu <yuzenghui@huawei.com>,
Eric Auger <eric.auger@redhat.com>,
Ganapatrao Kulkarni <gankulkarni@os.amperecomputing.com>
Subject: [PATCH v4 17/17] KVM: arm64: Document NV caps and vcpu flags
Date: Wed, 14 May 2025 11:35:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250514103501.2225951-18-maz@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250514103501.2225951-1-maz@kernel.org>
Describe the two new vcpu flags that control NV, together with
the capabilities that advertise them.
Reviewed-by: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Joey Gouly <joey.gouly@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
---
Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst | 14 +++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst
index 47c7c3f92314e..fe3d6b5d2acca 100644
--- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst
+++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst
@@ -3460,7 +3460,8 @@ The initial values are defined as:
- FPSIMD/NEON registers: set to 0
- SVE registers: set to 0
- System registers: Reset to their architecturally defined
- values as for a warm reset to EL1 (resp. SVC)
+ values as for a warm reset to EL1 (resp. SVC) or EL2 (in the
+ case of EL2 being enabled).
Note that because some registers reflect machine topology, all vcpus
should be created before this ioctl is invoked.
@@ -3527,6 +3528,17 @@ Possible features:
- the KVM_REG_ARM64_SVE_VLS pseudo-register is immutable, and can
no longer be written using KVM_SET_ONE_REG.
+ - KVM_ARM_VCPU_HAS_EL2: Enable Nested Virtualisation support,
+ booting the guest from EL2 instead of EL1.
+ Depends on KVM_CAP_ARM_EL2.
+ The VM is running with HCR_EL2.E2H being RES1 (VHE) unless
+ KVM_ARM_VCPU_HAS_EL2_E2H0 is also set.
+
+ - KVM_ARM_VCPU_HAS_EL2_E2H0: Restrict Nested Virtualisation
+ support to HCR_EL2.E2H being RES0 (non-VHE).
+ Depends on KVM_CAP_ARM_EL2_E2H0.
+ KVM_ARM_VCPU_HAS_EL2 must also be set.
+
4.83 KVM_ARM_PREFERRED_TARGET
-----------------------------
--
2.39.2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-05-14 10:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-05-14 10:34 [PATCH v4 00/17] KVM: arm64: Recursive NV support Marc Zyngier
2025-05-14 10:34 ` [PATCH v4 01/17] arm64: sysreg: Add layout for VNCR_EL2 Marc Zyngier
2025-05-14 10:34 ` [PATCH v4 02/17] KVM: arm64: nv: Allocate VNCR page when required Marc Zyngier
2025-05-14 10:34 ` [PATCH v4 03/17] KVM: arm64: nv: Extract translation helper from the AT code Marc Zyngier
2025-05-14 10:34 ` [PATCH v4 04/17] KVM: arm64: nv: Snapshot S1 ASID tagging information during walk Marc Zyngier
2025-05-14 10:34 ` [PATCH v4 05/17] KVM: arm64: nv: Move TLBI range decoding to a helper Marc Zyngier
2025-05-14 10:34 ` [PATCH v4 06/17] KVM: arm64: nv: Don't adjust PSTATE.M when L2 is nesting Marc Zyngier
2025-05-14 10:34 ` [PATCH v4 07/17] KVM: arm64: nv: Add pseudo-TLB backing VNCR_EL2 Marc Zyngier
2025-05-14 10:34 ` [PATCH v4 08/17] KVM: arm64: nv: Add userspace and guest handling of VNCR_EL2 Marc Zyngier
2025-05-14 10:34 ` [PATCH v4 09/17] KVM: arm64: nv: Handle VNCR_EL2-triggered faults Marc Zyngier
2025-05-14 10:34 ` [PATCH v4 10/17] KVM: arm64: nv: Handle mapping of VNCR_EL2 at EL2 Marc Zyngier
2025-05-14 10:34 ` [PATCH v4 11/17] KVM: arm64: nv: Handle VNCR_EL2 invalidation from MMU notifiers Marc Zyngier
2025-05-14 10:34 ` [PATCH v4 12/17] KVM: arm64: nv: Program host's VNCR_EL2 to the fixmap address Marc Zyngier
2025-05-14 10:34 ` [PATCH v4 13/17] KVM: arm64: nv: Add S1 TLB invalidation primitive for VNCR_EL2 Marc Zyngier
2025-05-14 10:34 ` [PATCH v4 14/17] KVM: arm64: nv: Plumb TLBI S1E2 into system instruction dispatch Marc Zyngier
2025-05-14 10:34 ` [PATCH v4 15/17] KVM: arm64: nv: Remove dead code from ERET handling Marc Zyngier
2025-05-14 10:34 ` [PATCH v4 16/17] KVM: arm64: Allow userspace to request KVM_ARM_VCPU_EL2* Marc Zyngier
2025-05-14 10:35 ` Marc Zyngier [this message]
2025-05-19 1:40 ` [PATCH v4 00/17] KVM: arm64: Recursive NV support Oliver Upton
2025-05-19 7:04 ` Marc Zyngier
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