From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BCE6C433F5 for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2022 15:41:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S233406AbiBWPll (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Feb 2022 10:41:41 -0500 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:51896 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S242267AbiBWPlX (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Feb 2022 10:41:23 -0500 Received: from ams.source.kernel.org (ams.source.kernel.org [145.40.68.75]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BBED5BDE5C for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2022 07:40:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.kernel.org (relay.kernel.org [52.25.139.140]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ams.source.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5C17EB820C4 for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2022 15:40:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1019CC340E7; Wed, 23 Feb 2022 15:40:40 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2022 15:40:37 +0000 From: Catalin Marinas To: Mark Brown Cc: Will Deacon , Marc Zyngier , Shuah Khan , Shuah Khan , Alan Hayward , Luis Machado , Salil Akerkar , Basant Kumar Dwivedi , Szabolcs Nagy , James Morse , Alexandru Elisei , Suzuki K Poulose , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 28/40] KVM: arm64: Handle SME host state when running guests Message-ID: References: <20220207152109.197566-1-broonie@kernel.org> <20220207152109.197566-29-broonie@kernel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20220207152109.197566-29-broonie@kernel.org> Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Feb 07, 2022 at 03:20:57PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote: > While we don't currently support SME in guests we do currently support it > for the host system so we need to take care of SME's impact, including > the floating point register state, when running guests. Simiarly to SVE > we need to manage the traps in CPACR_RL1, what is new is the handling of > streaming mode and ZA. > > Normally we defer any handling of the floating point register state until > the guest first uses it however if the system is in streaming mode FPSIMD > and SVE operations may generate SME traps which we would need to distinguish > from actual attempts by the guest to use SME. Rather than do this for the > time being if we are in streaming mode when entering the guest we force > the floating point state to be saved immediately and exit streaming mode, > meaning that the guest won't generate SME traps for supported operations. > > We could handle ZA in the access trap similarly to the FPSIMD/SVE state > without the disruption caused by streaming mode but for simplicity > handle it the same way as streaming mode for now. > > This will be revisited when we support SME for guests (hopefully before SME > hardware becomes available), for now it will only incur additional cost on > systems with SME and even there only if streaming mode or ZA are enabled. > > Signed-off-by: Mark Brown Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas