* [PATCH v3 01/18] KVM: arm64: Sync HCR_EL2.VSE back to the host vCPU under pKVM
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From: Fuad Tabba @ 2026-09-14 11:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: maz, oupton, kvmarm, linux-arm-kernel, linux-kernel
Cc: catalin.marinas, will, joey.gouly, seiden, suzuki.poulose,
yuzenghui, mark.rutland, steven.price, vdonnefort, qperret,
tabba
flush_hyp_vcpu() copies HCR_EL2.VSE from the host vCPU into the hyp
vCPU on every entry, and nothing copies it back. Once the guest takes
the vSError the hyp vCPU's copy clears with the hardware bit while the
host's stays set, so the next entry pends the same SError again,
KVM_GET_VCPU_EVENTS keeps reporting it, and kvm_arch_vcpu_runnable()
never lets the vCPU block in WFI.
Reflect VSE back on every exit, which the flush-side comment already
states.
Fixes: 734dc8c01c838 ("KVM: arm64: Implement lazy vCPU state sync for non-protected guests")
Signed-off-by: Fuad Tabba <fuad.tabba@linux.dev>
---
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-main.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-main.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-main.c
index 9a3b92e626adb..b6bfe502bcd04 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-main.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-main.c
@@ -276,6 +276,10 @@ static void sync_hyp_vcpu(struct pkvm_hyp_vcpu *hyp_vcpu)
host_vcpu->arch.iflags = hyp_vcpu->vcpu.arch.iflags;
+ /* Cleared by hardware once the guest takes the vSError. */
+ host_vcpu->arch.hcr_el2 &= ~HCR_VSE;
+ host_vcpu->arch.hcr_el2 |= hyp_vcpu->vcpu.arch.hcr_el2 & HCR_VSE;
+
sync_hyp_vgic_state(hyp_vcpu);
}
--
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From: Fuad Tabba @ 2026-09-14 11:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: maz, oupton, kvmarm, linux-arm-kernel, linux-kernel
Cc: catalin.marinas, will, joey.gouly, seiden, suzuki.poulose,
yuzenghui, mark.rutland, steven.price, vdonnefort, qperret,
tabba
On an MTE-capable host under pKVM, enter_exception64() reads the VM's
MTE flag through vcpu->kvm, which for a host vCPU is a host-writable
pointer nothing validates. The host can point it at any address in the
hyp linear map and read back bit 1 of that word through PSR_TCO in the
vCPU's CPSR, or panic the hypervisor with an unmapped one.
Get the VM through a get/put pair around the read: a loaded vCPU's is
the hyp VM, an unloaded host vCPU's is read once and pinned, and a
pointer the host never shared leaves TCO clear.
Fixes: ea7fc1bb1cd1b ("KVM: arm64: Introduce MTE VM feature")
Reported-by: Sashiko <sashiko-bot@kernel.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260914070536.877D91F000FF@smtp.kernel.org/
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Fuad Tabba <fuad.tabba@linux.dev>
---
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/exception.c | 5 ++-
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/hyp/adjust_pc.h | 18 ++++++++++
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/pkvm.c | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 61 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/exception.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/exception.c
index 754e2dc1df54a..6e60d890afa4a 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/exception.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/exception.c
@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ static void enter_exception64(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, unsigned long target_mode,
enum exception_type type)
{
unsigned long sctlr, vbar, old, new, mode;
+ struct kvm *kvm;
u64 exc_offset;
mode = *vcpu_cpsr(vcpu) & (PSR_MODE_MASK | PSR_MODE32_BIT);
@@ -109,8 +110,10 @@ static void enter_exception64(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, unsigned long target_mode,
new |= (old & PSR_C_BIT);
new |= (old & PSR_V_BIT);
- if (kvm_has_mte(kern_hyp_va(vcpu->kvm)))
+ kvm = vcpu_get_kvm(vcpu);
+ if (kvm && kvm_has_mte(kvm))
new |= PSR_TCO_BIT;
+ vcpu_put_kvm(vcpu, kvm);
new |= (old & PSR_DIT_BIT);
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/hyp/adjust_pc.h b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/hyp/adjust_pc.h
index 4fdfeabefeb43..a4fb04faa7d09 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/hyp/adjust_pc.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/hyp/adjust_pc.h
@@ -13,6 +13,24 @@
#include <asm/kvm_emulate.h>
#include <asm/kvm_host.h>
+/*
+ * Under pKVM a host vCPU's ->kvm is host-writable: the nVHE pair
+ * validates it.
+ */
+#ifdef __KVM_NVHE_HYPERVISOR__
+struct kvm *vcpu_get_kvm(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
+void vcpu_put_kvm(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm *kvm);
+#else
+static inline struct kvm *vcpu_get_kvm(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
+{
+ return vcpu->kvm;
+}
+
+static inline void vcpu_put_kvm(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm *kvm)
+{
+}
+#endif
+
static inline void kvm_skip_instr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
{
if (vcpu_mode_is_32bit(vcpu)) {
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/pkvm.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/pkvm.c
index 459bd9eb7e4bc..9bdc7a9b84b8c 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/pkvm.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/pkvm.c
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@
#include <asm/kvm_emulate.h>
+#include <hyp/adjust_pc.h>
+
#include <nvhe/mem_protect.h>
#include <nvhe/memory.h>
#include <nvhe/pkvm.h>
@@ -304,6 +306,43 @@ struct pkvm_hyp_vcpu *pkvm_get_loaded_hyp_vcpu(void)
}
+static struct pkvm_hyp_vm *loaded_hyp_vm_of(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
+{
+ struct pkvm_hyp_vcpu *hyp_vcpu = pkvm_get_loaded_hyp_vcpu();
+
+ if (hyp_vcpu &&
+ (vcpu == &hyp_vcpu->vcpu || vcpu == hyp_vcpu->host_vcpu))
+ return pkvm_hyp_vcpu_to_hyp_vm(hyp_vcpu);
+
+ return NULL;
+}
+
+/* An unloaded host vCPU's VM is mapped at EL2 only while pinned. */
+struct kvm *vcpu_get_kvm(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
+{
+ struct pkvm_hyp_vm *hyp_vm;
+ struct kvm *kvm;
+
+ if (!is_protected_kvm_enabled())
+ return kern_hyp_va(vcpu->kvm);
+
+ hyp_vm = loaded_hyp_vm_of(vcpu);
+ if (hyp_vm)
+ return &hyp_vm->kvm;
+
+ kvm = kern_hyp_va(READ_ONCE(vcpu->kvm));
+ if (hyp_pin_shared_mem(kvm, kvm + 1))
+ return NULL;
+
+ return kvm;
+}
+
+void vcpu_put_kvm(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm *kvm)
+{
+ if (kvm && is_protected_kvm_enabled() && !loaded_hyp_vm_of(vcpu))
+ hyp_unpin_shared_mem(kvm, kvm + 1);
+}
+
struct pkvm_hyp_vm *get_pkvm_hyp_vm(pkvm_handle_t handle)
{
struct pkvm_hyp_vm *hyp_vm;
--
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From: Fuad Tabba @ 2026-09-14 11:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: maz, oupton, kvmarm, linux-arm-kernel, linux-kernel
Cc: catalin.marinas, will, joey.gouly, seiden, suzuki.poulose,
yuzenghui, mark.rutland, steven.price, vdonnefort, qperret,
tabba
Under pKVM, a page the host shares with EL2 is mapped at EL2 only while
it's pinned, and the host vCPU is pinned at its first KVM_RUN.
KVM_SET_VCPU_EVENTS with ext_dabt_pending reaches __kvm_adjust_pc() at
EL2 before that, and dereferencing the unmapped host vCPU panics the
hypervisor. Any process holding /dev/kvm on a pKVM host can trigger it.
Pin the host vCPU around the adjustment when no hyp vCPU is loaded for
it. A loaded hyp vCPU implies it's pinned. A pin fails only for memory
the host never shared, and the request is then dropped like any other
bad host pointer.
Fixes: efa1368ba9f4b ("KVM: arm64: Commit exceptions from KVM_SET_VCPU_EVENTS immediately")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Fuad Tabba <fuad.tabba@linux.dev>
---
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-main.c | 19 ++++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-main.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-main.c
index b6bfe502bcd04..52a65b13b3810 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-main.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-main.c
@@ -546,8 +546,25 @@ static void handle___pkvm_host_mkyoung_guest(struct kvm_cpu_context *host_ctxt)
static void handle___kvm_adjust_pc(struct kvm_cpu_context *host_ctxt)
{
DECLARE_REG(struct kvm_vcpu *, vcpu, host_ctxt, 1);
+ struct pkvm_hyp_vcpu *hyp_vcpu;
+ struct kvm_vcpu *host_vcpu;
- __kvm_adjust_pc(kern_hyp_va(vcpu));
+ host_vcpu = __get_host_hyp_vcpus(vcpu, &hyp_vcpu);
+ if (host_vcpu) {
+ __kvm_adjust_pc(host_vcpu);
+ return;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * With no hyp vCPU loaded for it, the host vCPU may be unpinned,
+ * and so unmapped at EL2: its first run pins it.
+ */
+ host_vcpu = kern_hyp_va(vcpu);
+ if (hyp_pin_shared_mem(host_vcpu, host_vcpu + 1))
+ return;
+
+ __kvm_adjust_pc(host_vcpu);
+ hyp_unpin_shared_mem(host_vcpu, host_vcpu + 1);
}
static void handle___kvm_flush_vm_context(struct kvm_cpu_context *host_ctxt)
--
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From: Fuad Tabba @ 2026-09-14 11:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: maz, oupton, kvmarm, linux-arm-kernel, linux-kernel
Cc: catalin.marinas, will, joey.gouly, seiden, suzuki.poulose,
yuzenghui, mark.rutland, steven.price, vdonnefort, qperret,
tabba
pKVM doesn't support steal time for protected guests, and
KVM_CAP_STEAL_TIME already reads 0 for them on the VM file descriptor,
but kvm_arm_pvtime_supported() doesn't know the VM, so the host still
accepts the KVM_ARM_VCPU_PVTIME_CTRL attribute, whose IPA would point
kvm_update_stolen_time() at the guest's private memory on every vCPU
load. Pass the VM in and return false for a protected one, so the
attribute returns -ENXIO as it does where steal time isn't implemented.
Signed-off-by: Fuad Tabba <fuad.tabba@linux.dev>
---
arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 2 +-
arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c | 2 +-
arch/arm64/kvm/pvtime.c | 10 +++++-----
3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
index 27fe0cd5b2d7a..286489a69dff5 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
@@ -1346,7 +1346,7 @@ long kvm_hypercall_pv_features(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
gpa_t kvm_init_stolen_time(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
void kvm_update_stolen_time(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
-bool kvm_arm_pvtime_supported(void);
+bool kvm_arm_pvtime_supported(struct kvm *kvm);
int kvm_arm_pvtime_set_attr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
struct kvm_device_attr *attr);
int kvm_arm_pvtime_get_attr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c
index 8b080804bc90b..db36815630790 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c
@@ -447,7 +447,7 @@ int kvm_vm_ioctl_check_extension(struct kvm *kvm, long ext)
r = system_supports_mte();
break;
case KVM_CAP_STEAL_TIME:
- r = kvm_arm_pvtime_supported();
+ r = kvm_arm_pvtime_supported(kvm);
break;
case KVM_CAP_ARM_EL1_32BIT:
r = cpus_have_final_cap(ARM64_HAS_32BIT_EL1);
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/pvtime.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/pvtime.c
index 4ceabaa4c30bd..053fe831fa541 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/pvtime.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/pvtime.c
@@ -67,9 +67,9 @@ gpa_t kvm_init_stolen_time(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
return base;
}
-bool kvm_arm_pvtime_supported(void)
+bool kvm_arm_pvtime_supported(struct kvm *kvm)
{
- return !!sched_info_on();
+ return !!sched_info_on() && (!kvm || !kvm_vm_is_protected(kvm));
}
int kvm_arm_pvtime_set_attr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ int kvm_arm_pvtime_set_attr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
int ret = 0;
int idx;
- if (!kvm_arm_pvtime_supported() ||
+ if (!kvm_arm_pvtime_supported(kvm) ||
attr->attr != KVM_ARM_VCPU_PVTIME_IPA)
return -ENXIO;
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ int kvm_arm_pvtime_get_attr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
u64 __user *user = (u64 __user *)attr->addr;
u64 ipa;
- if (!kvm_arm_pvtime_supported() ||
+ if (!kvm_arm_pvtime_supported(vcpu->kvm) ||
attr->attr != KVM_ARM_VCPU_PVTIME_IPA)
return -ENXIO;
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ int kvm_arm_pvtime_has_attr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
{
switch (attr->attr) {
case KVM_ARM_VCPU_PVTIME_IPA:
- if (kvm_arm_pvtime_supported())
+ if (kvm_arm_pvtime_supported(vcpu->kvm))
return 0;
}
return -ENXIO;
--
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From: Fuad Tabba @ 2026-09-14 11:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: maz, oupton, kvmarm, linux-arm-kernel, linux-kernel
Cc: catalin.marinas, will, joey.gouly, seiden, suzuki.poulose,
yuzenghui, mark.rutland, steven.price, vdonnefort, qperret,
tabba
From: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Add an ESR_EL2.EC-indexed handler table, entry_hyp_vm_handlers[],
consulted from flush_hyp_vcpu() on re-entry when the previous exit was
a trap: sync_hyp_vcpu() records the exit reason in the hyp vCPU as
exit_code, and the trap's exception class comes from its ESR_EL2. Its
single generic handler stands in until the per-EC marshalling patch
replaces the table with protected-only ones.
Entry carries the host's requested PC updates to the hyp vCPU: add
vcpu_copy_flag() to copy a masked set of flags between the two vCPU
structures, with PC_UPDATE_REQ covering INCREMENT_PC and the
pending-exception flags. The wholesale iflags copy moves into the
non-protected branch; a protected vCPU takes only PC_UPDATE_REQ.
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Joey Gouly <joey.gouly@arm.com>
Co-developed-by: Fuad Tabba <fuad.tabba@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Fuad Tabba <fuad.tabba@linux.dev>
---
arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 19 +++++++++++++
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/nvhe/pkvm.h | 3 ++
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-main.c | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++---
3 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
index 286489a69dff5..37d0721d39a45 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
@@ -1033,11 +1033,28 @@ struct kvm_vcpu_arch {
set; \
})
+#define __vcpu_copy_flag(vt, vs, flagset, f, m) \
+ do { \
+ typeof(vs->arch.flagset) tmp, val; \
+ \
+ __build_check_flag(vs, flagset, f, m); \
+ \
+ val = READ_ONCE(vs->arch.flagset); \
+ val &= (m); \
+ __vcpu_flags_preempt_disable(); \
+ tmp = READ_ONCE(vt->arch.flagset); \
+ tmp &= ~(m); \
+ tmp |= val; \
+ WRITE_ONCE(vt->arch.flagset, tmp); \
+ __vcpu_flags_preempt_enable(); \
+ } while (0)
+
#define vcpu_get_flag(v, ...) __vcpu_get_flag((v), __VA_ARGS__)
#define vcpu_set_flag(v, ...) __vcpu_set_flag((v), __VA_ARGS__)
#define vcpu_clear_flag(v, ...) __vcpu_clear_flag((v), __VA_ARGS__)
#define vcpu_test_and_clear_flag(v, ...) \
__vcpu_test_and_clear_flag((v), __VA_ARGS__)
+#define vcpu_copy_flag(vt, vs, ...) __vcpu_copy_flag((vt), (vs), __VA_ARGS__)
/* KVM_ARM_VCPU_INIT completed */
#define VCPU_INITIALIZED __vcpu_single_flag(cflags, BIT(0))
@@ -1055,6 +1072,8 @@ struct kvm_vcpu_arch {
#define INCREMENT_PC __vcpu_single_flag(iflags, BIT(1))
/* Target EL/MODE (not a single flag, but let's abuse the macro) */
#define EXCEPT_MASK __vcpu_single_flag(iflags, GENMASK(3, 1))
+/* Cover both PENDING_EXCEPTION and EXCEPT_MASK for global operations */
+#define PC_UPDATE_REQ __vcpu_single_flag(iflags, GENMASK(3, 0))
/* Host-set: the hyp flushes the non-protected vCPU state in on entry */
#define PKVM_HOST_STATE_DIRTY __vcpu_single_flag(iflags, BIT(4))
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/nvhe/pkvm.h b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/nvhe/pkvm.h
index c904647d2f760..49a0a992047ba 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/nvhe/pkvm.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/nvhe/pkvm.h
@@ -26,6 +26,9 @@ struct pkvm_hyp_vcpu {
* per-cpu pointer tracking us. Otherwise, NULL if not loaded.
*/
struct pkvm_hyp_vcpu **loaded_hyp_vcpu;
+
+ /* The previous exit's ARM_EXCEPTION_* code. */
+ u32 exit_code;
};
/*
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-main.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-main.c
index 52a65b13b3810..ef65c3cd6f810 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-main.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-main.c
@@ -31,6 +31,17 @@ unsigned int hyp_gicv3_nr_lr;
void __kvm_hyp_host_forward_smc(struct kvm_cpu_context *host_ctxt);
+typedef void (*hyp_entry_exit_handler_fn)(struct pkvm_hyp_vcpu *);
+
+static void handle_vm_entry_generic(struct pkvm_hyp_vcpu *hyp_vcpu)
+{
+ vcpu_copy_flag(&hyp_vcpu->vcpu, hyp_vcpu->host_vcpu, PC_UPDATE_REQ);
+}
+
+static const hyp_entry_exit_handler_fn entry_hyp_vm_handlers[] = {
+ [0 ... ESR_ELx_EC_MAX] = handle_vm_entry_generic,
+};
+
static void __hyp_sve_save_guest(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
{
__vcpu_assign_sys_reg(vcpu, ZCR_EL1, read_sysreg_el1(SYS_ZCR));
@@ -216,6 +227,8 @@ static void sync_debug_state(struct pkvm_hyp_vcpu *hyp_vcpu)
static void flush_hyp_vcpu(struct pkvm_hyp_vcpu *hyp_vcpu)
{
struct kvm_vcpu *host_vcpu = hyp_vcpu->host_vcpu;
+ hyp_entry_exit_handler_fn ec_handler;
+ u8 esr_ec;
fpsimd_sve_flush();
flush_debug_state(hyp_vcpu);
@@ -228,6 +241,7 @@ static void flush_hyp_vcpu(struct pkvm_hyp_vcpu *hyp_vcpu)
if (!pkvm_hyp_vcpu_is_protected(hyp_vcpu)) {
if (vcpu_get_flag(host_vcpu, PKVM_HOST_STATE_DIRTY))
flush_hyp_vcpu_state(hyp_vcpu);
+ hyp_vcpu->vcpu.arch.iflags = host_vcpu->arch.iflags;
} else {
hyp_vcpu->vcpu.arch.ctxt = host_vcpu->arch.ctxt;
}
@@ -245,16 +259,31 @@ static void flush_hyp_vcpu(struct pkvm_hyp_vcpu *hyp_vcpu)
hyp_vcpu->vcpu.arch.hcr_el2 |= READ_ONCE(host_vcpu->arch.hcr_el2) &
(HCR_TWI | HCR_TWE | HCR_VSE);
- hyp_vcpu->vcpu.arch.iflags = host_vcpu->arch.iflags;
-
hyp_vcpu->vcpu.arch.vsesr_el2 = host_vcpu->arch.vsesr_el2;
flush_hyp_vgic_state(hyp_vcpu);
hyp_vcpu->vcpu.arch.pid = host_vcpu->arch.pid;
+
+ switch (ARM_EXCEPTION_CODE(hyp_vcpu->exit_code)) {
+ case ARM_EXCEPTION_IRQ:
+ case ARM_EXCEPTION_EL1_SERROR:
+ case ARM_EXCEPTION_IL:
+ break;
+ case ARM_EXCEPTION_TRAP:
+ esr_ec = ESR_ELx_EC(kvm_vcpu_get_esr(&hyp_vcpu->vcpu));
+ ec_handler = entry_hyp_vm_handlers[esr_ec];
+ if (ec_handler)
+ ec_handler(hyp_vcpu);
+ break;
+ default:
+ BUG();
+ }
+
+ hyp_vcpu->exit_code = 0;
}
-static void sync_hyp_vcpu(struct pkvm_hyp_vcpu *hyp_vcpu)
+static void sync_hyp_vcpu(struct pkvm_hyp_vcpu *hyp_vcpu, u32 exit_reason)
{
struct kvm_vcpu *host_vcpu = hyp_vcpu->host_vcpu;
@@ -281,6 +310,8 @@ static void sync_hyp_vcpu(struct pkvm_hyp_vcpu *hyp_vcpu)
host_vcpu->arch.hcr_el2 |= hyp_vcpu->vcpu.arch.hcr_el2 & HCR_VSE;
sync_hyp_vgic_state(hyp_vcpu);
+
+ hyp_vcpu->exit_code = exit_reason;
}
static void handle___pkvm_vcpu_load(struct kvm_cpu_context *host_ctxt)
@@ -395,7 +426,7 @@ static void handle___kvm_vcpu_run(struct kvm_cpu_context *host_ctxt)
ret = __kvm_vcpu_run(&hyp_vcpu->vcpu);
- sync_hyp_vcpu(hyp_vcpu);
+ sync_hyp_vcpu(hyp_vcpu, ret);
} else {
/* The host is fully trusted, run its vCPU directly. */
fpsimd_lazy_switch_to_guest(host_vcpu);
--
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From: Fuad Tabba @ 2026-09-14 11:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: maz, oupton, kvmarm, linux-arm-kernel, linux-kernel
Cc: catalin.marinas, will, joey.gouly, seiden, suzuki.poulose,
yuzenghui, mark.rutland, steven.price, vdonnefort, qperret,
tabba
flush_hyp_vcpu() copies the host's mdcr_el2, TWI/TWE and debug state
into the hyp vCPU on every entry, so for a protected vCPU the host's
trap configuration overrides the one pkvm_vcpu_init_traps() computed
at EL2. Move the mdcr_el2 and TWI/TWE copies into the non-protected
branch, and return early from flush_debug_state() and
sync_debug_state() for a protected vCPU: its debug registers are
hypervisor-owned, and it takes the host's TWI/TWE at vCPU load.
MDCR_EL2.TDA traps only the guest's own accesses; it doesn't stop the
world switch from loading host-supplied breakpoints and MDSCR_EL1.
EL2's mdcr_el2 starts from 0, and HPMN == 0 is reserved without
FEAT_HPMN0. Set HPMN at vCPU load to PMCR_EL0.N on a PE whose
ID_AA64DFR0_EL1 implements PMUv3, the value the host's copy carried,
read as kvm_init_host_debug_data() reads it: the PMUv3 cpucap is
system-wide and off without CONFIG_HW_PERF_EVENTS. A protected guest's
PMU accesses trap regardless.
Signed-off-by: Fuad Tabba <fuad.tabba@linux.dev>
---
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-main.c | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++--------
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/pkvm.c | 2 +-
2 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-main.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-main.c
index ef65c3cd6f810..229a4877d14f5 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-main.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-main.c
@@ -200,6 +200,9 @@ static void flush_debug_state(struct pkvm_hyp_vcpu *hyp_vcpu)
{
struct kvm_vcpu *host_vcpu = hyp_vcpu->host_vcpu;
+ if (pkvm_hyp_vcpu_is_protected(hyp_vcpu))
+ return;
+
hyp_vcpu->vcpu.arch.debug_owner = host_vcpu->arch.debug_owner;
if (kvm_guest_owns_debug_regs(&hyp_vcpu->vcpu)) {
@@ -218,6 +221,9 @@ static void sync_debug_state(struct pkvm_hyp_vcpu *hyp_vcpu)
{
struct kvm_vcpu *host_vcpu = hyp_vcpu->host_vcpu;
+ if (pkvm_hyp_vcpu_is_protected(hyp_vcpu))
+ return;
+
if (kvm_guest_owns_debug_regs(&hyp_vcpu->vcpu))
host_vcpu->arch.vcpu_debug_state = hyp_vcpu->vcpu.arch.vcpu_debug_state;
else if (kvm_host_owns_debug_regs(&hyp_vcpu->vcpu))
@@ -241,6 +247,12 @@ static void flush_hyp_vcpu(struct pkvm_hyp_vcpu *hyp_vcpu)
if (!pkvm_hyp_vcpu_is_protected(hyp_vcpu)) {
if (vcpu_get_flag(host_vcpu, PKVM_HOST_STATE_DIRTY))
flush_hyp_vcpu_state(hyp_vcpu);
+
+ hyp_vcpu->vcpu.arch.hcr_el2 &= ~(HCR_TWI | HCR_TWE);
+ hyp_vcpu->vcpu.arch.hcr_el2 |= READ_ONCE(host_vcpu->arch.hcr_el2) &
+ (HCR_TWI | HCR_TWE);
+
+ hyp_vcpu->vcpu.arch.mdcr_el2 = host_vcpu->arch.mdcr_el2;
hyp_vcpu->vcpu.arch.iflags = host_vcpu->arch.iflags;
} else {
hyp_vcpu->vcpu.arch.ctxt = host_vcpu->arch.ctxt;
@@ -249,17 +261,13 @@ static void flush_hyp_vcpu(struct pkvm_hyp_vcpu *hyp_vcpu)
/* __hyp_running_vcpu must be NULL in a guest context. */
hyp_vcpu->vcpu.arch.ctxt.__hyp_running_vcpu = NULL;
- hyp_vcpu->vcpu.arch.mdcr_el2 = host_vcpu->arch.mdcr_el2;
/*
- * HCR_EL2.VSE is host-owned (a pending virtual SError to inject), not a
- * trap-control bit, so it must flow to the hyp vCPU alongside TWI/TWE
- * for the vSError to be delivered. sync_hyp_vcpu() reflects it back.
+ * A host-injected vSError is masked by the guest's own PSTATE.A, so it
+ * applies to protected guests too.
*/
- hyp_vcpu->vcpu.arch.hcr_el2 &= ~(HCR_TWI | HCR_TWE | HCR_VSE);
- hyp_vcpu->vcpu.arch.hcr_el2 |= READ_ONCE(host_vcpu->arch.hcr_el2) &
- (HCR_TWI | HCR_TWE | HCR_VSE);
-
- hyp_vcpu->vcpu.arch.vsesr_el2 = host_vcpu->arch.vsesr_el2;
+ hyp_vcpu->vcpu.arch.hcr_el2 &= ~HCR_VSE;
+ hyp_vcpu->vcpu.arch.hcr_el2 |= READ_ONCE(host_vcpu->arch.hcr_el2) & HCR_VSE;
+ hyp_vcpu->vcpu.arch.vsesr_el2 = host_vcpu->arch.vsesr_el2;
flush_hyp_vgic_state(hyp_vcpu);
@@ -326,9 +334,17 @@ static void handle___pkvm_vcpu_load(struct kvm_cpu_context *host_ctxt)
return;
if (pkvm_hyp_vcpu_is_protected(hyp_vcpu)) {
+ u64 dfr0 = read_sysreg(id_aa64dfr0_el1);
+
/* Propagate WFx trapping flags */
hyp_vcpu->vcpu.arch.hcr_el2 &= ~(HCR_TWE | HCR_TWI);
hyp_vcpu->vcpu.arch.hcr_el2 |= hcr_el2 & (HCR_TWE | HCR_TWI);
+
+ /* HPMN == 0 is reserved without FEAT_HPMN0. */
+ if (pmuv3_implemented(FIELD_GET(ID_AA64DFR0_EL1_PMUVer_MASK, dfr0)))
+ u64p_replace_bits(&hyp_vcpu->vcpu.arch.mdcr_el2,
+ FIELD_GET(ARMV8_PMU_PMCR_N, read_sysreg(pmcr_el0)),
+ MDCR_EL2_HPMN);
} else {
memcpy(&hyp_vcpu->vcpu.arch.fgt, hyp_vcpu->host_vcpu->arch.fgt,
sizeof(hyp_vcpu->vcpu.arch.fgt));
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/pkvm.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/pkvm.c
index 9bdc7a9b84b8c..d52c26c0959a8 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/pkvm.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/pkvm.c
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ static void pvm_init_traps_mdcr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
if (!kvm_has_feat(kvm, ID_AA64DFR0_EL1, PMUVer, IMP)) {
val |= MDCR_EL2_TPM | MDCR_EL2_TPMCR;
- val &= ~(MDCR_EL2_HPME | MDCR_EL2_MTPME | MDCR_EL2_HPMN_MASK);
+ val &= ~(MDCR_EL2_HPME | MDCR_EL2_MTPME);
}
if (!kvm_has_feat(kvm, ID_AA64DFR0_EL1, DebugVer, IMP))
--
2.39.5
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@ 2026-09-14 11:33 ` Fuad Tabba
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From: Fuad Tabba @ 2026-09-14 11:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: maz, oupton, kvmarm, linux-arm-kernel, linux-kernel
Cc: catalin.marinas, will, joey.gouly, seiden, suzuki.poulose,
yuzenghui, mark.rutland, steven.price, vdonnefort, qperret,
tabba
From: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
A protected guest's virtual timer is programmed from EL2's own copy of
the state and read back there, so the host can't change the guest's
deadline. cntvoff_el2 is zeroed, so the guest's virtual time is the
physical time.
The flush also preserves the guest's CNTV and CNTP CVAL/CTL across the
host's full-context copy into the hyp vCPU, until the per-EC
marshalling patch removes that copy.
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Co-developed-by: Fuad Tabba <fuad.tabba@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Fuad Tabba <fuad.tabba@linux.dev>
---
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-main.c | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 39 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-main.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-main.c
index 229a4877d14f5..9cc8ef16897c1 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-main.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-main.c
@@ -154,6 +154,33 @@ static void sync_hyp_vgic_state(struct pkvm_hyp_vcpu *hyp_vcpu)
host_cpu_if->vgic_lr[i] = hyp_cpu_if->vgic_lr[i];
}
+static void flush_hyp_timer_state(struct pkvm_hyp_vcpu *hyp_vcpu)
+{
+ if (!pkvm_hyp_vcpu_is_protected(hyp_vcpu))
+ return;
+
+ /* A hyp vcpu has no offset, and sees vtime == ptime. */
+ write_sysreg(0, cntvoff_el2);
+ write_sysreg_el0(__vcpu_sys_reg(&hyp_vcpu->vcpu, CNTV_CVAL_EL0),
+ SYS_CNTV_CVAL);
+ isb();
+ write_sysreg_el0(__vcpu_sys_reg(&hyp_vcpu->vcpu, CNTV_CTL_EL0),
+ SYS_CNTV_CTL);
+}
+
+static void sync_hyp_timer_state(struct pkvm_hyp_vcpu *hyp_vcpu)
+{
+ if (!pkvm_hyp_vcpu_is_protected(hyp_vcpu))
+ return;
+
+ /*
+ * Preserve the vtimer state so that it is always correct,
+ * even if the host tries to make a mess.
+ */
+ __vcpu_assign_sys_reg(&hyp_vcpu->vcpu, CNTV_CVAL_EL0, read_sysreg_el0(SYS_CNTV_CVAL));
+ __vcpu_assign_sys_reg(&hyp_vcpu->vcpu, CNTV_CTL_EL0, read_sysreg_el0(SYS_CNTV_CTL));
+}
+
static void __copy_vcpu_state(const struct kvm_vcpu *from_vcpu,
struct kvm_vcpu *to_vcpu)
{
@@ -255,7 +282,17 @@ static void flush_hyp_vcpu(struct pkvm_hyp_vcpu *hyp_vcpu)
hyp_vcpu->vcpu.arch.mdcr_el2 = host_vcpu->arch.mdcr_el2;
hyp_vcpu->vcpu.arch.iflags = host_vcpu->arch.iflags;
} else {
+ u64 v_cval = hyp_vcpu->vcpu.arch.ctxt.sys_regs[CNTV_CVAL_EL0];
+ u64 v_ctl = hyp_vcpu->vcpu.arch.ctxt.sys_regs[CNTV_CTL_EL0];
+ u64 p_cval = hyp_vcpu->vcpu.arch.ctxt.sys_regs[CNTP_CVAL_EL0];
+ u64 p_ctl = hyp_vcpu->vcpu.arch.ctxt.sys_regs[CNTP_CTL_EL0];
+
hyp_vcpu->vcpu.arch.ctxt = host_vcpu->arch.ctxt;
+
+ hyp_vcpu->vcpu.arch.ctxt.sys_regs[CNTV_CVAL_EL0] = v_cval;
+ hyp_vcpu->vcpu.arch.ctxt.sys_regs[CNTV_CTL_EL0] = v_ctl;
+ hyp_vcpu->vcpu.arch.ctxt.sys_regs[CNTP_CVAL_EL0] = p_cval;
+ hyp_vcpu->vcpu.arch.ctxt.sys_regs[CNTP_CTL_EL0] = p_ctl;
}
/* __hyp_running_vcpu must be NULL in a guest context. */
@@ -270,6 +307,7 @@ static void flush_hyp_vcpu(struct pkvm_hyp_vcpu *hyp_vcpu)
hyp_vcpu->vcpu.arch.vsesr_el2 = host_vcpu->arch.vsesr_el2;
flush_hyp_vgic_state(hyp_vcpu);
+ flush_hyp_timer_state(hyp_vcpu);
hyp_vcpu->vcpu.arch.pid = host_vcpu->arch.pid;
@@ -318,6 +356,7 @@ static void sync_hyp_vcpu(struct pkvm_hyp_vcpu *hyp_vcpu, u32 exit_reason)
host_vcpu->arch.hcr_el2 |= hyp_vcpu->vcpu.arch.hcr_el2 & HCR_VSE;
sync_hyp_vgic_state(hyp_vcpu);
+ sync_hyp_timer_state(hyp_vcpu);
hyp_vcpu->exit_code = exit_reason;
}
--
2.39.5
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From: Fuad Tabba @ 2026-09-14 11:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: maz, oupton, kvmarm, linux-arm-kernel, linux-kernel
Cc: catalin.marinas, will, joey.gouly, seiden, suzuki.poulose,
yuzenghui, mark.rutland, steven.price, vdonnefort, qperret,
tabba
Add kvm_reset_pvm_sys_regs() and the pvm_sys_reg_reset_vals[] table
that drives it, and call it from init_pkvm_hyp_vcpu() for protected
vCPUs. The table holds the registers KVM resets that EL2 loads for a
protected vCPU: the ones __sysreg_restore_state_nvhe() restores, and
CNTV_CTL_EL0, which flush_hyp_timer_state() loads from a copy the
host's kvm_timer_vcpu_reset() doesn't write. The ptrauth keys, which
entry.S loads, are not in the table: sys_regs.c resets them to
UNKNOWN, and a vCPU that CPU_ON brings back keeps the keys the guest
last set, one UNKNOWN value in place of another.
A register that resets to 0 still needs an entry: a later patch calls
kvm_reset_pvm_sys_regs() again for PSCI CPU_ON at EL2, on a context
that has run.
A poison value stands in where sys_regs.c resets to UNKNOWN, and for
VBAR_EL1 and CONTEXTIDR_EL1 in place of the 0 it uses.
MPIDR_EL1 is derived from vcpu_id, as for any KVM guest.
AMAIR_EL1 resets to 0 where sys_regs.c reads the hardware: the host
writes it freely before the hypercall, and it's loaded on every guest
entry.
Until the per-EC marshalling patch removes the host's full-context
copy from flush_hyp_vcpu(), that copy overwrites these values on every
entry. It preserves CNTV_CTL_EL0, whose entry writes the zero the page
already holds. So this patch has no observable effect on its own.
No functional change intended.
Reviewed-by: Joey Gouly <joey.gouly@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Fuad Tabba <fuad.tabba@linux.dev>
---
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/nvhe/pkvm.h | 1 +
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/pkvm.c | 5 +++
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/sys_regs.c | 60 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 66 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/nvhe/pkvm.h b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/nvhe/pkvm.h
index 49a0a992047ba..a04b7c04d5135 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/nvhe/pkvm.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/nvhe/pkvm.h
@@ -95,6 +95,7 @@ bool kvm_handle_pvm_hvc64(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 *exit_code);
bool kvm_handle_pvm_sysreg(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 *exit_code);
bool kvm_handle_pvm_restricted(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 *exit_code);
void kvm_init_pvm_id_regs(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
+void kvm_reset_pvm_sys_regs(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
int kvm_check_pvm_sysreg_table(void);
#endif /* __ARM64_KVM_NVHE_PKVM_H__ */
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/pkvm.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/pkvm.c
index d52c26c0959a8..0252f28cca300 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/pkvm.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/pkvm.c
@@ -590,6 +590,11 @@ static int init_pkvm_hyp_vcpu(struct pkvm_hyp_vcpu *hyp_vcpu,
goto done;
ret = pkvm_vcpu_init_sve(hyp_vcpu, host_vcpu);
+ if (ret)
+ goto done;
+
+ if (pkvm_hyp_vcpu_is_protected(hyp_vcpu))
+ kvm_reset_pvm_sys_regs(&hyp_vcpu->vcpu);
done:
if (ret)
unpin_host_vcpu(host_vcpu);
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/sys_regs.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/sys_regs.c
index 8758c68017765..87557d1b3bf07 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/sys_regs.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/sys_regs.c
@@ -525,6 +525,66 @@ static const struct sys_reg_desc pvm_sys_reg_descs[] = {
/* Performance Monitoring Registers are restricted. */
};
+struct sys_reg_desc_reset {
+ int reg;
+ void (*reset)(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, const struct sys_reg_desc_reset *rd);
+ u64 value;
+};
+
+static void reset_mpidr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, const struct sys_reg_desc_reset *r)
+{
+ __vcpu_assign_sys_reg(vcpu, r->reg, kvm_calculate_mpidr(vcpu));
+}
+
+static void reset_value(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, const struct sys_reg_desc_reset *r)
+{
+ __vcpu_assign_sys_reg(vcpu, r->reg, r->value);
+}
+
+#define RESET_VAL(REG, VAL) { REG, reset_value, VAL }
+
+#define RESET_ZERO(REG) RESET_VAL(REG, 0)
+
+#define RESET_UNKNOWN(REG) RESET_VAL(REG, 0x1de7ec7edbadc0deULL)
+
+#define RESET_FUNC(REG, FN) { REG, FN, 0 }
+
+static const struct sys_reg_desc_reset pvm_sys_reg_reset_vals[] = {
+ RESET_FUNC(MPIDR_EL1, reset_mpidr),
+ RESET_UNKNOWN(TPIDR_EL0),
+ RESET_UNKNOWN(TPIDRRO_EL0),
+ RESET_UNKNOWN(TPIDR_EL1),
+ RESET_ZERO(CNTKCTL_EL1),
+ RESET_UNKNOWN(PAR_EL1),
+ RESET_ZERO(DISR_EL1),
+ RESET_ZERO(CPACR_EL1),
+ RESET_VAL(CONTEXTIDR_EL1, 0x00000000dbadc0deULL),
+ RESET_VAL(SCTLR_EL1, 0x00C50078ULL),
+ RESET_ZERO(TCR_EL1),
+ RESET_UNKNOWN(AFSR0_EL1),
+ RESET_UNKNOWN(AFSR1_EL1),
+ RESET_UNKNOWN(ESR_EL1),
+ RESET_UNKNOWN(MAIR_EL1),
+ RESET_ZERO(AMAIR_EL1),
+ RESET_ZERO(MDSCR_EL1),
+ RESET_ZERO(CNTV_CTL_EL0),
+ RESET_UNKNOWN(TTBR0_EL1),
+ RESET_UNKNOWN(TTBR1_EL1),
+ RESET_UNKNOWN(FAR_EL1),
+ RESET_VAL(VBAR_EL1, 0x1de7ec7edbadc000ULL),
+};
+
+void kvm_reset_pvm_sys_regs(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
+{
+ unsigned long i;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(pvm_sys_reg_reset_vals); i++) {
+ const struct sys_reg_desc_reset *r = &pvm_sys_reg_reset_vals[i];
+
+ r->reset(vcpu, r);
+ }
+}
+
/*
* Initializes feature registers for protected vms.
*/
--
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To: maz, oupton, kvmarm, linux-arm-kernel, linux-kernel
Cc: catalin.marinas, will, joey.gouly, seiden, suzuki.poulose,
yuzenghui, mark.rutland, steven.price, vdonnefort, qperret,
tabba
Extend kvm_handle_pvm_hvc64() to handle SMCCC_VERSION,
SMCCC_ARCH_FEATURES and the vendor hypervisor call UID at EL2, so
these queries don't reach the host. ARCH_FEATURES is mandatory from
SMCCC 1.1, the version EL2 implements: it returns SUCCESS for itself and
for SMCCC_VERSION, NOT_SUPPORTED for anything else, and handles the
ARCH_WORKAROUND_1/2/3 queries as the host does, from a copy of the
host's mitigation state taken at init with the sanitised ID registers.
The workaround calls themselves are already handled on hyp entry.
Signed-off-by: Fuad Tabba <fuad.tabba@linux.dev>
---
arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_hyp.h | 4 ++
arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c | 4 ++
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/pkvm.c | 68 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 76 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_hyp.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_hyp.h
index 4974492744cc8..7609c78c68f34 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_hyp.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_hyp.h
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
#include <linux/compiler.h>
#include <linux/kvm_host.h>
#include <asm/alternative.h>
+#include <asm/spectre.h>
#include <asm/sysreg.h>
DECLARE_PER_CPU(struct kvm_cpu_context, kvm_hyp_ctxt);
@@ -150,6 +151,9 @@ extern u64 kvm_nvhe_sym(id_aa64smfr0_el1_sys_val);
extern unsigned long kvm_nvhe_sym(__icache_flags);
extern unsigned int kvm_nvhe_sym(kvm_arm_vmid_bits);
+extern enum mitigation_state kvm_nvhe_sym(spectre_v2_state);
+extern enum mitigation_state kvm_nvhe_sym(spectre_v4_state);
+extern enum mitigation_state kvm_nvhe_sym(spectre_bhb_state);
extern unsigned int kvm_nvhe_sym(kvm_host_sve_max_vl);
extern unsigned long kvm_nvhe_sym(hyp_nr_cpus);
extern unsigned int kvm_nvhe_sym(hyp_gicv3_nr_lr);
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c
index db36815630790..cceeeee266902 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c
@@ -2622,6 +2622,10 @@ static void kvm_hyp_init_symbols(void)
kvm_nvhe_sym(__icache_flags) = __icache_flags;
kvm_nvhe_sym(kvm_arm_vmid_bits) = kvm_arm_vmid_bits;
+ kvm_nvhe_sym(spectre_v2_state) = arm64_get_spectre_v2_state();
+ kvm_nvhe_sym(spectre_v4_state) = arm64_get_spectre_v4_state();
+ kvm_nvhe_sym(spectre_bhb_state) = arm64_get_spectre_bhb_state();
+
/* Propagate the FGT state to the nVHE side */
kvm_nvhe_sym(hfgrtr_masks) = hfgrtr_masks;
kvm_nvhe_sym(hfgwtr_masks) = hfgwtr_masks;
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/pkvm.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/pkvm.c
index 0252f28cca300..855cb77c8bba1 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/pkvm.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/pkvm.c
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
#include <linux/mm.h>
#include <asm/kvm_emulate.h>
+#include <asm/spectre.h>
#include <hyp/adjust_pc.h>
@@ -18,6 +19,11 @@
#include <nvhe/pkvm.h>
#include <nvhe/trap_handler.h>
+/* The host's Spectre mitigation state, for SMCCC_ARCH_FEATURES. */
+enum mitigation_state spectre_v2_state;
+enum mitigation_state spectre_v4_state;
+enum mitigation_state spectre_bhb_state;
+
/* Used by icache_is_aliasing(). */
unsigned long __icache_flags;
@@ -1183,8 +1189,70 @@ bool kvm_handle_pvm_hvc64(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 *exit_code)
{
u64 val[4] = { SMCCC_RET_INVALID_PARAMETER };
bool handled = true;
+ u32 feature;
+ uuid_t uuid;
switch (smccc_get_function(vcpu)) {
+ case ARM_SMCCC_VERSION_FUNC_ID:
+ /* Nothing to be handled by the host. Go back to the guest. */
+ val[0] = ARM_SMCCC_VERSION_1_1;
+ break;
+ case ARM_SMCCC_ARCH_FEATURES_FUNC_ID:
+ /* The workaround calls themselves are handled on hyp entry. */
+ val[0] = SMCCC_RET_NOT_SUPPORTED;
+ feature = smccc_get_arg1(vcpu);
+ switch (feature) {
+ case ARM_SMCCC_VERSION_FUNC_ID:
+ case ARM_SMCCC_ARCH_FEATURES_FUNC_ID:
+ val[0] = SMCCC_RET_SUCCESS;
+ break;
+ case ARM_SMCCC_ARCH_WORKAROUND_1:
+ switch (spectre_v2_state) {
+ case SPECTRE_VULNERABLE:
+ break;
+ case SPECTRE_MITIGATED:
+ val[0] = SMCCC_RET_SUCCESS;
+ break;
+ case SPECTRE_UNAFFECTED:
+ val[0] = SMCCC_ARCH_WORKAROUND_RET_UNAFFECTED;
+ break;
+ }
+ break;
+ case ARM_SMCCC_ARCH_WORKAROUND_2:
+ switch (spectre_v4_state) {
+ case SPECTRE_VULNERABLE:
+ break;
+ case SPECTRE_MITIGATED:
+ /* With SSBS advertised the guest's default is safe. */
+ if (kvm_has_feat(vcpu->kvm, ID_AA64PFR1_EL1, SSBS, IMP))
+ break;
+ fallthrough;
+ case SPECTRE_UNAFFECTED:
+ val[0] = SMCCC_RET_NOT_REQUIRED;
+ break;
+ }
+ break;
+ case ARM_SMCCC_ARCH_WORKAROUND_3:
+ switch (spectre_bhb_state) {
+ case SPECTRE_VULNERABLE:
+ break;
+ case SPECTRE_MITIGATED:
+ val[0] = SMCCC_RET_SUCCESS;
+ break;
+ case SPECTRE_UNAFFECTED:
+ val[0] = SMCCC_ARCH_WORKAROUND_RET_UNAFFECTED;
+ break;
+ }
+ break;
+ }
+ break;
+ case ARM_SMCCC_VENDOR_HYP_CALL_UID_FUNC_ID:
+ uuid = ARM_SMCCC_VENDOR_HYP_UID_KVM;
+ val[0] = smccc_uuid_to_reg(&uuid, 0);
+ val[1] = smccc_uuid_to_reg(&uuid, 1);
+ val[2] = smccc_uuid_to_reg(&uuid, 2);
+ val[3] = smccc_uuid_to_reg(&uuid, 3);
+ break;
case ARM_SMCCC_VENDOR_HYP_KVM_FEATURES_FUNC_ID:
val[0] = BIT(ARM_SMCCC_KVM_FUNC_FEATURES);
val[0] |= BIT(ARM_SMCCC_KVM_FUNC_HYP_MEMINFO);
--
2.39.5
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From: Fuad Tabba @ 2026-09-14 11:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: maz, oupton, kvmarm, linux-arm-kernel, linux-kernel
Cc: catalin.marinas, will, joey.gouly, seiden, suzuki.poulose,
yuzenghui, mark.rutland, steven.price, vdonnefort, qperret,
tabba
EL2 implements PSCI 1.1 for protected VMs: CPU_ON, CPU_OFF,
PSCI_VERSION and PSCI_FEATURES are decided at EL2 (CPU_ON and CPU_OFF
still exit to the host, which only schedules or parks the target),
AFFINITY_INFO, CPU_SUSPEND and the platform power operations are
forwarded to the host, and anything else returns NOT_SUPPORTED,
including the TRNG calls and the functions above 1.1, SYSTEM_OFF2
among them, that the host handled for a protected guest until now.
TRNG for protected guests is a follow-up. AFFINITY_INFO stays
with the host, which returns OFF only once it has parked the target:
the host is what a guest polls to see a CPU_OFF complete before it
issues the next CPU_ON, as Linux does on hotplug.
Three consequences follow:
- A protected VM has one primary vCPU, the first whose hyp vCPU is
created with mp_state RUNNABLE. A second one, or an mp_state other
than RUNNABLE or STOPPED, fails that vCPU's first KVM_RUN with
-EINVAL.
- CPU_ON finds its target among the hyp vCPUs, which exist from the
target's first KVM_RUN; before that the guest gets
INVALID_PARAMETERS.
- A vCPU EL2 holds powered off doesn't run: handle___kvm_vcpu_run()
returns ARM_EXCEPTION_IL, reported as KVM_EXIT_FAIL_ENTRY. Its
existing bail-outs return the same code instead of an -EINVAL that
handle_exit() didn't recognise, for every hyp vCPU.
Non-protected VMs keep power_state ON and accept any mp_state.
Each protected vCPU is OFF, ON_PENDING or ON. CPU_ON moves the target
to ON_PENDING, and the target's next run resets it and moves it to ON.
The racing transitions are cmpxchg, and the reset state is published
with a release/acquire pair, documented at each site. CPU_OFF publishes
OFF with a release, so the target's clear of reset_state.reset is
ordered before it and a CPU_ON that then wins on OFF republishes after
the clear. Rolling a CPU_ON the host failed back to OFF needs the
host's return value, which the per-EC marshalling patch delivers along
with the rollback. Until then such a target stays ON_PENDING, and the
reset has no observable effect: flush_hyp_vcpu() copies the host's
context in on every entry until that patch removes the copy, so the
target enters on the host's values rather than the ones EL2 reset.
Signed-off-by: Fuad Tabba <fuad.tabba@linux.dev>
---
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/nvhe/pkvm.h | 14 ++
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-main.c | 25 ++-
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/pkvm.c | 283 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-
3 files changed, 311 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/nvhe/pkvm.h b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/nvhe/pkvm.h
index a04b7c04d5135..63b368baf0e72 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/nvhe/pkvm.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/nvhe/pkvm.h
@@ -29,6 +29,12 @@ struct pkvm_hyp_vcpu {
/* The previous exit's ARM_EXCEPTION_* code. */
u32 exit_code;
+
+ /*
+ * PSCI_0_2_AFFINITY_LEVEL_{OFF, ON_PENDING, ON}. A non-protected
+ * vCPU is always ON.
+ */
+ int power_state;
};
/*
@@ -46,6 +52,12 @@ struct pkvm_hyp_vm {
struct hyp_pool pool;
hyp_spinlock_t lock;
+ /*
+ * The vCPU initialised RUNNABLE: claimed under vm_table_lock,
+ * released only if its own init fails.
+ */
+ struct pkvm_hyp_vcpu *primary_vcpu;
+
/* Array of the hyp vCPU structures for this VM. */
struct pkvm_hyp_vcpu *vcpus[];
};
@@ -98,4 +110,6 @@ void kvm_init_pvm_id_regs(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
void kvm_reset_pvm_sys_regs(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
int kvm_check_pvm_sysreg_table(void);
+int pkvm_reset_vcpu(struct pkvm_hyp_vcpu *hyp_vcpu);
+struct pkvm_hyp_vcpu *pkvm_mpidr_to_hyp_vcpu(struct pkvm_hyp_vm *vm, u64 mpidr);
#endif /* __ARM64_KVM_NVHE_PKVM_H__ */
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-main.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-main.c
index 9cc8ef16897c1..da8ab636063cf 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-main.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-main.c
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
#include <hyp/switch.h>
#include <linux/irqchip/arm-gic-v3.h>
+#include <uapi/linux/psci.h>
#include <asm/pgtable-types.h>
#include <asm/kvm_asm.h>
@@ -456,14 +457,12 @@ static void handle___kvm_vcpu_run(struct kvm_cpu_context *host_ctxt)
{
struct pkvm_hyp_vcpu *hyp_vcpu;
struct kvm_vcpu *host_vcpu;
- int ret;
+ int ret = ARM_EXCEPTION_IL;
host_vcpu = get_host_hyp_vcpus(host_ctxt, 1, &hyp_vcpu);
- if (!host_vcpu) {
- ret = -EINVAL;
+ if (!host_vcpu)
goto out;
- }
if (unlikely(hyp_vcpu)) {
/*
@@ -472,8 +471,22 @@ static void handle___kvm_vcpu_run(struct kvm_cpu_context *host_ctxt)
* loading a vcpu. Therefore, if SME features enabled the host
* is misbehaving.
*/
- if (unlikely(system_supports_sme() && read_sysreg_s(SYS_SVCR))) {
- ret = -EINVAL;
+ if (unlikely(system_supports_sme() && read_sysreg_s(SYS_SVCR)))
+ goto out;
+
+ /*
+ * ON has a single writer, pkvm_reset_vcpu() on this CPU, so
+ * READ_ONCE suffices. ON_PENDING takes the reset; -ECANCELED
+ * is a rollback that raced it.
+ */
+ switch (READ_ONCE(hyp_vcpu->power_state)) {
+ case PSCI_0_2_AFFINITY_LEVEL_ON:
+ break;
+ case PSCI_0_2_AFFINITY_LEVEL_ON_PENDING:
+ if (pkvm_reset_vcpu(hyp_vcpu))
+ goto out;
+ break;
+ default:
goto out;
}
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/pkvm.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/pkvm.c
index 855cb77c8bba1..d970cba12ca47 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/pkvm.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/pkvm.c
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
*/
#include <kvm/arm_hypercalls.h>
+#include <kvm/arm_psci.h>
#include <linux/kvm_host.h>
#include <linux/mm.h>
@@ -433,6 +434,40 @@ static void pkvm_init_features_from_host(struct pkvm_hyp_vm *hyp_vm, const struc
allowed_features, KVM_VCPU_MAX_FEATURES);
}
+static int pkvm_vcpu_init_psci(struct pkvm_hyp_vcpu *hyp_vcpu, u32 mp_state)
+{
+ struct vcpu_reset_state *reset_state = &hyp_vcpu->vcpu.arch.reset_state;
+ struct pkvm_hyp_vm *hyp_vm = pkvm_hyp_vcpu_to_hyp_vm(hyp_vcpu);
+ struct kvm_vcpu *host_vcpu;
+
+ if (!pkvm_hyp_vcpu_is_protected(hyp_vcpu)) {
+ /* The host manages a non-protected vCPU: always ON at EL2. */
+ hyp_vcpu->power_state = PSCI_0_2_AFFINITY_LEVEL_ON;
+ return 0;
+ }
+
+ if (mp_state != KVM_MP_STATE_RUNNABLE && mp_state != KVM_MP_STATE_STOPPED)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ if (mp_state == KVM_MP_STATE_STOPPED) {
+ reset_state->reset = false;
+ hyp_vcpu->power_state = PSCI_0_2_AFFINITY_LEVEL_OFF;
+ return 0;
+ }
+
+ hyp_assert_lock_held(&vm_table_lock);
+ if (hyp_vm->primary_vcpu)
+ return -EINVAL;
+ hyp_vm->primary_vcpu = hyp_vcpu;
+
+ host_vcpu = hyp_vcpu->host_vcpu;
+ reset_state->pc = READ_ONCE(host_vcpu->arch.ctxt.regs.pc);
+ reset_state->r0 = READ_ONCE(host_vcpu->arch.ctxt.regs.regs[0]);
+ reset_state->reset = true;
+ hyp_vcpu->power_state = PSCI_0_2_AFFINITY_LEVEL_ON_PENDING;
+ return 0;
+}
+
static void unpin_host_vcpu(struct kvm_vcpu *host_vcpu)
{
if (host_vcpu)
@@ -447,6 +482,9 @@ static void unpin_host_sve_state(struct pkvm_hyp_vcpu *hyp_vcpu)
return;
sve_state = hyp_vcpu->vcpu.arch.sve_state;
+ if (!sve_state)
+ return;
+
hyp_unpin_shared_mem(sve_state,
sve_state + vcpu_sve_state_size(&hyp_vcpu->vcpu));
}
@@ -559,10 +597,12 @@ static int init_pkvm_hyp_vcpu(struct pkvm_hyp_vcpu *hyp_vcpu,
struct kvm_vcpu *host_vcpu)
{
int ret = 0;
+ u32 mp_state;
if (hyp_pin_shared_mem(host_vcpu, host_vcpu + 1))
return -EBUSY;
+ mp_state = READ_ONCE(host_vcpu->arch.mp_state.mp_state);
hyp_vcpu->host_vcpu = host_vcpu;
hyp_vcpu->vcpu.kvm = &hyp_vm->kvm;
@@ -571,7 +611,6 @@ static int init_pkvm_hyp_vcpu(struct pkvm_hyp_vcpu *hyp_vcpu,
hyp_vcpu->vcpu.arch.hw_mmu = &hyp_vm->kvm.arch.mmu;
hyp_vcpu->vcpu.arch.cflags = READ_ONCE(host_vcpu->arch.cflags);
- hyp_vcpu->vcpu.arch.mp_state.mp_state = KVM_MP_STATE_STOPPED;
if (!pkvm_hyp_vcpu_is_protected(hyp_vcpu)) {
/*
@@ -601,9 +640,12 @@ static int init_pkvm_hyp_vcpu(struct pkvm_hyp_vcpu *hyp_vcpu,
if (pkvm_hyp_vcpu_is_protected(hyp_vcpu))
kvm_reset_pvm_sys_regs(&hyp_vcpu->vcpu);
+ ret = pkvm_vcpu_init_psci(hyp_vcpu, mp_state);
done:
- if (ret)
+ if (ret) {
unpin_host_vcpu(host_vcpu);
+ unpin_host_sve_state(hyp_vcpu);
+ }
return ret;
}
@@ -980,13 +1022,22 @@ int __pkvm_init_vcpu(pkvm_handle_t handle, struct kvm_vcpu *host_vcpu,
ret = init_pkvm_hyp_vcpu(hyp_vcpu, hyp_vm, host_vcpu);
if (ret)
- goto unlock;
+ goto unclaim;
ret = register_hyp_vcpu(hyp_vm, hyp_vcpu);
if (ret) {
unpin_host_vcpu(host_vcpu);
unpin_host_sve_state(hyp_vcpu);
+ goto unclaim;
}
+ goto unlock;
+unclaim:
+ /*
+ * Under vm_table_lock, so no other claim can have landed: undo
+ * this one.
+ */
+ if (hyp_vm->primary_vcpu == hyp_vcpu)
+ hyp_vm->primary_vcpu = NULL;
unlock:
hyp_spin_unlock(&vm_table_lock);
@@ -1178,6 +1229,228 @@ static void pkvm_memunshare_call(u64 *ret, struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
ret[0] = SMCCC_RET_SUCCESS;
}
+/*
+ * Reset the vCPU to its power-on state and commit ON_PENDING -> ON, on the
+ * target's own CPU. Returns -ECANCELED, with no side effects, if a rollback
+ * raced the reset.
+ */
+int pkvm_reset_vcpu(struct pkvm_hyp_vcpu *hyp_vcpu)
+{
+ struct vcpu_reset_state *reset_state = &hyp_vcpu->vcpu.arch.reset_state;
+ int prev;
+
+ /*
+ * Pairs with smp_store_release(&reset_state->reset, true) in
+ * pvm_psci_vcpu_on(). The acquire must precede the cmpxchg: reversed, a
+ * winning cmpxchg with a false acquire would leave power_state == ON
+ * with the reset skipped.
+ */
+ if (!smp_load_acquire(&reset_state->reset))
+ return -ECANCELED;
+
+ prev = cmpxchg_relaxed(&hyp_vcpu->power_state,
+ PSCI_0_2_AFFINITY_LEVEL_ON_PENDING,
+ PSCI_0_2_AFFINITY_LEVEL_ON);
+ if (prev != PSCI_0_2_AFFINITY_LEVEL_ON_PENDING) {
+ /* The only other writer of ON_PENDING is the rollback. */
+ WARN_ON(prev != PSCI_0_2_AFFINITY_LEVEL_OFF);
+ return -ECANCELED;
+ }
+
+ kvm_reset_vcpu_core(&hyp_vcpu->vcpu);
+ kvm_reset_pvm_sys_regs(&hyp_vcpu->vcpu);
+
+ /* Must be done after resetting sys registers. */
+ kvm_reset_vcpu_psci(&hyp_vcpu->vcpu, reset_state);
+
+ hyp_vcpu->exit_code = 0;
+ /*
+ * A source that raced a rollback can publish after this clear, and
+ * the next cycle then passes the acquire on a stale flag: the pc,
+ * r0 and be it reads are still the guest's own.
+ */
+ reset_state->reset = false;
+ return 0;
+}
+
+struct pkvm_hyp_vcpu *pkvm_mpidr_to_hyp_vcpu(struct pkvm_hyp_vm *hyp_vm,
+ u64 mpidr)
+{
+ struct pkvm_hyp_vcpu *hyp_vcpu;
+ int i;
+
+ mpidr &= MPIDR_HWID_BITMASK;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < hyp_vm->kvm.created_vcpus; i++) {
+ /* Pairs with smp_store_release() in register_hyp_vcpu(). */
+ hyp_vcpu = smp_load_acquire(&hyp_vm->vcpus[i]);
+
+ if (!hyp_vcpu)
+ continue;
+
+ if (mpidr == kvm_vcpu_get_mpidr_aff(&hyp_vcpu->vcpu))
+ return hyp_vcpu;
+ }
+
+ return NULL;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Returns true when handled at EL2, false when the host must wake the target
+ * vCPU.
+ */
+static bool pvm_psci_vcpu_on(struct pkvm_hyp_vcpu *hyp_vcpu)
+{
+ struct pkvm_hyp_vm *hyp_vm = pkvm_hyp_vcpu_to_hyp_vm(hyp_vcpu);
+ struct vcpu_reset_state *reset_state;
+ struct pkvm_hyp_vcpu *target;
+ unsigned long cpu_id, ret;
+ int power_state;
+
+ cpu_id = smccc_get_arg1(&hyp_vcpu->vcpu);
+ if (!kvm_psci_valid_affinity(&hyp_vcpu->vcpu, cpu_id)) {
+ ret = PSCI_RET_INVALID_PARAMS;
+ goto error;
+ }
+
+ target = pkvm_mpidr_to_hyp_vcpu(hyp_vm, cpu_id);
+ if (!target) {
+ ret = PSCI_RET_INVALID_PARAMS;
+ goto error;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * vCPUs race to power on the same target. Relaxed: reset_state
+ * is published by the release on reset_state.reset below.
+ */
+ power_state = cmpxchg_relaxed(&target->power_state,
+ PSCI_0_2_AFFINITY_LEVEL_OFF,
+ PSCI_0_2_AFFINITY_LEVEL_ON_PENDING);
+ switch (power_state) {
+ case PSCI_0_2_AFFINITY_LEVEL_ON_PENDING:
+ ret = PSCI_RET_ON_PENDING;
+ goto error;
+ case PSCI_0_2_AFFINITY_LEVEL_ON:
+ ret = PSCI_RET_ALREADY_ON;
+ goto error;
+ case PSCI_0_2_AFFINITY_LEVEL_OFF:
+ break;
+ default:
+ ret = PSCI_RET_INTERNAL_FAILURE;
+ goto error;
+ }
+
+ reset_state = &target->vcpu.arch.reset_state;
+ reset_state->pc = smccc_get_arg2(&hyp_vcpu->vcpu);
+ reset_state->r0 = smccc_get_arg3(&hyp_vcpu->vcpu);
+ reset_state->be = kvm_vcpu_is_be(&hyp_vcpu->vcpu);
+ /*
+ * Publish reset_state.{pc, r0, be} to the target vCPU. Pairs with
+ * smp_load_acquire(&reset_state->reset) in pkvm_reset_vcpu().
+ */
+ smp_store_release(&reset_state->reset, true);
+
+ /* The host requests KVM_REQ_VCPU_RESET and wakes the target. */
+ return false;
+
+error:
+ smccc_set_retval(&hyp_vcpu->vcpu, ret, 0, 0, 0);
+ return true;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Returns true when handled at EL2, false when the host must stop scheduling
+ * the vCPU.
+ */
+static bool pvm_psci_vcpu_off(struct pkvm_hyp_vcpu *hyp_vcpu)
+{
+ /* No other writer runs while this vCPU is ON and executing. */
+ WARN_ON(READ_ONCE(hyp_vcpu->power_state) != PSCI_0_2_AFFINITY_LEVEL_ON);
+
+ /*
+ * Orders pkvm_reset_vcpu()'s clear of reset_state.reset before OFF, so
+ * a CPU_ON that wins on OFF republishes after it. Pairs with the
+ * cmpxchg in pvm_psci_vcpu_on().
+ */
+ smp_store_release(&hyp_vcpu->power_state, PSCI_0_2_AFFINITY_LEVEL_OFF);
+
+ /* Return to the host so that it can finish powering off the vcpu. */
+ return false;
+}
+
+static bool pvm_psci_version(struct pkvm_hyp_vcpu *hyp_vcpu)
+{
+ /* Nothing to be handled by the host. Go back to the guest. */
+ smccc_set_retval(&hyp_vcpu->vcpu, KVM_ARM_PSCI_1_1, 0, 0, 0);
+ return true;
+}
+
+static bool pvm_psci_features(struct pkvm_hyp_vcpu *hyp_vcpu)
+{
+ struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu = &hyp_vcpu->vcpu;
+ u32 feature = smccc_get_arg1(vcpu);
+ unsigned long val;
+
+ switch (feature) {
+ case PSCI_0_2_FN_PSCI_VERSION:
+ case PSCI_0_2_FN_CPU_SUSPEND:
+ case PSCI_0_2_FN64_CPU_SUSPEND:
+ case PSCI_0_2_FN_CPU_OFF:
+ case PSCI_0_2_FN_CPU_ON:
+ case PSCI_0_2_FN64_CPU_ON:
+ case PSCI_0_2_FN_AFFINITY_INFO:
+ case PSCI_0_2_FN64_AFFINITY_INFO:
+ case PSCI_0_2_FN_SYSTEM_OFF:
+ case PSCI_0_2_FN_SYSTEM_RESET:
+ case PSCI_1_0_FN_PSCI_FEATURES:
+ case PSCI_1_1_FN_SYSTEM_RESET2:
+ case PSCI_1_1_FN64_SYSTEM_RESET2:
+ case ARM_SMCCC_VERSION_FUNC_ID:
+ val = PSCI_RET_SUCCESS;
+ break;
+ default:
+ val = PSCI_RET_NOT_SUPPORTED;
+ break;
+ }
+
+ /* Nothing to be handled by the host. Go back to the guest. */
+ smccc_set_retval(vcpu, val, 0, 0, 0);
+ return true;
+}
+
+static bool pkvm_handle_psci(struct pkvm_hyp_vcpu *hyp_vcpu)
+{
+ struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu = &hyp_vcpu->vcpu;
+ u32 psci_fn = smccc_get_function(vcpu);
+
+ switch (psci_fn) {
+ case PSCI_0_2_FN_CPU_ON:
+ kvm_psci_narrow_to_32bit(vcpu);
+ fallthrough;
+ case PSCI_0_2_FN64_CPU_ON:
+ return pvm_psci_vcpu_on(hyp_vcpu);
+ case PSCI_0_2_FN_CPU_OFF:
+ return pvm_psci_vcpu_off(hyp_vcpu);
+ case PSCI_0_2_FN_PSCI_VERSION:
+ return pvm_psci_version(hyp_vcpu);
+ case PSCI_1_0_FN_PSCI_FEATURES:
+ return pvm_psci_features(hyp_vcpu);
+ case PSCI_0_2_FN_AFFINITY_INFO:
+ case PSCI_0_2_FN64_AFFINITY_INFO:
+ case PSCI_0_2_FN_SYSTEM_RESET:
+ case PSCI_0_2_FN_CPU_SUSPEND:
+ case PSCI_0_2_FN64_CPU_SUSPEND:
+ case PSCI_0_2_FN_SYSTEM_OFF:
+ case PSCI_1_1_FN_SYSTEM_RESET2:
+ case PSCI_1_1_FN64_SYSTEM_RESET2:
+ return false; /* Handled by the host. */
+ default:
+ /* Unknown PSCI calls are answered here, not forwarded. */
+ smccc_set_retval(vcpu, PSCI_RET_NOT_SUPPORTED, 0, 0, 0);
+ return true;
+ }
+}
+
/*
* Handler for protected VM HVC calls.
*
@@ -1187,6 +1460,7 @@ static void pkvm_memunshare_call(u64 *ret, struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
*/
bool kvm_handle_pvm_hvc64(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 *exit_code)
{
+ struct pkvm_hyp_vcpu *hyp_vcpu = container_of(vcpu, struct pkvm_hyp_vcpu, vcpu);
u64 val[4] = { SMCCC_RET_INVALID_PARAMETER };
bool handled = true;
u32 feature;
@@ -1285,8 +1559,7 @@ bool kvm_handle_pvm_hvc64(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 *exit_code)
pkvm_memunshare_call(val, vcpu);
break;
default:
- /* Punt everything else back to the host, for now. */
- handled = false;
+ return pkvm_handle_psci(hyp_vcpu);
}
if (handled)
--
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@ 2026-09-14 11:33 ` Fuad Tabba
2026-09-14 11:33 ` [PATCH v3 12/18] KVM: arm64: Prevent host PC adjustments for protected vCPUs Fuad Tabba
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17 siblings, 0 replies; 21+ messages in thread
From: Fuad Tabba @ 2026-09-14 11:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: maz, oupton, kvmarm, linux-arm-kernel, linux-kernel
Cc: catalin.marinas, will, joey.gouly, seiden, suzuki.poulose,
yuzenghui, mark.rutland, steven.price, vdonnefort, qperret,
tabba
EL2 masks a protected VM's vCPU features down to the set pKVM allows,
so a KVM_ARM_VCPU_INIT that requests more succeeds and produces a
guest without them. Reject such an init with -EINVAL. The host and
EL2 both take the allowed set from kvm_pkvm_vcpu_allowed_features().
EL2 returns 1.1 for a protected guest's PSCI_VERSION whatever the
host is configured for, and forwards the platform calls to the host.
Require KVM_ARM_VCPU_PSCI_0_2: without it the host dispatches the
forwarded calls as PSCI 0.1. Reject a KVM_REG_ARM_PSCI_VERSION write
below 1.1: below it the host rejects the SYSTEM_RESET2 that EL2
advertises.
Signed-off-by: Fuad Tabba <fuad.tabba@linux.dev>
---
arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pkvm.h | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c | 13 +++++++++++++
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/pkvm.c | 17 ++---------------
arch/arm64/kvm/hypercalls.c | 7 +++++++
4 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pkvm.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pkvm.h
index beea00e693a0a..fbea052fa3e16 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pkvm.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pkvm.h
@@ -53,6 +53,30 @@ static inline bool kvm_pkvm_ext_allowed(struct kvm *kvm, long ext)
}
}
+/*
+ * The vCPU features a protected VM may use: checked by the host at
+ * KVM_ARM_VCPU_INIT, applied by EL2 when the hyp VM is created.
+ */
+static inline void kvm_pkvm_vcpu_allowed_features(struct kvm *kvm,
+ unsigned long *allowed)
+{
+ bitmap_zero(allowed, KVM_VCPU_MAX_FEATURES);
+
+ set_bit(KVM_ARM_VCPU_PSCI_0_2, allowed);
+
+ if (kvm_pkvm_ext_allowed(kvm, KVM_CAP_ARM_PMU_V3))
+ set_bit(KVM_ARM_VCPU_PMU_V3, allowed);
+
+ if (kvm_pkvm_ext_allowed(kvm, KVM_CAP_ARM_PTRAUTH_ADDRESS))
+ set_bit(KVM_ARM_VCPU_PTRAUTH_ADDRESS, allowed);
+
+ if (kvm_pkvm_ext_allowed(kvm, KVM_CAP_ARM_PTRAUTH_GENERIC))
+ set_bit(KVM_ARM_VCPU_PTRAUTH_GENERIC, allowed);
+
+ if (kvm_pkvm_ext_allowed(kvm, KVM_CAP_ARM_SVE))
+ set_bit(KVM_ARM_VCPU_SVE, allowed);
+}
+
/*
* Check whether the KVM VM IOCTL is allowed in pKVM.
*
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c
index cceeeee266902..ca6e109b3e5d6 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c
@@ -1620,6 +1620,19 @@ static int kvm_vcpu_init_check_features(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
if (features & ~system_supported_vcpu_features())
return -EINVAL;
+ /* Reject features EL2 would drop when it creates the hyp VM. */
+ if (vcpu_is_protected(vcpu)) {
+ DECLARE_BITMAP(allowed, KVM_VCPU_MAX_FEATURES);
+
+ kvm_pkvm_vcpu_allowed_features(vcpu->kvm, allowed);
+ if (!bitmap_subset(&features, allowed, KVM_VCPU_MAX_FEATURES))
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ /* EL2 implements PSCI 1.1; the host must not dispatch as 0.1. */
+ if (!test_bit(KVM_ARM_VCPU_PSCI_0_2, &features))
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+
/*
* For now make sure that both address/generic pointer authentication
* features are requested by the userspace together.
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/pkvm.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/pkvm.c
index d970cba12ca47..8e6c2e70913c5 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/pkvm.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/pkvm.c
@@ -412,23 +412,10 @@ static void pkvm_init_features_from_host(struct pkvm_hyp_vm *hyp_vm, const struc
if (kvm_pkvm_ext_allowed(kvm, KVM_CAP_ARM_MTE))
kvm->arch.flags |= host_arch_flags & BIT(KVM_ARCH_FLAG_MTE_ENABLED);
- bitmap_zero(allowed_features, KVM_VCPU_MAX_FEATURES);
+ kvm_pkvm_vcpu_allowed_features(kvm, allowed_features);
- set_bit(KVM_ARM_VCPU_PSCI_0_2, allowed_features);
-
- if (kvm_pkvm_ext_allowed(kvm, KVM_CAP_ARM_PMU_V3))
- set_bit(KVM_ARM_VCPU_PMU_V3, allowed_features);
-
- if (kvm_pkvm_ext_allowed(kvm, KVM_CAP_ARM_PTRAUTH_ADDRESS))
- set_bit(KVM_ARM_VCPU_PTRAUTH_ADDRESS, allowed_features);
-
- if (kvm_pkvm_ext_allowed(kvm, KVM_CAP_ARM_PTRAUTH_GENERIC))
- set_bit(KVM_ARM_VCPU_PTRAUTH_GENERIC, allowed_features);
-
- if (kvm_pkvm_ext_allowed(kvm, KVM_CAP_ARM_SVE)) {
- set_bit(KVM_ARM_VCPU_SVE, allowed_features);
+ if (kvm_pkvm_ext_allowed(kvm, KVM_CAP_ARM_SVE))
kvm->arch.flags |= host_arch_flags & BIT(KVM_ARCH_FLAG_GUEST_HAS_SVE);
- }
bitmap_and(kvm->arch.vcpu_features, host_kvm->arch.vcpu_features,
allowed_features, KVM_VCPU_MAX_FEATURES);
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hypercalls.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hypercalls.c
index b11b8821c9fbc..e43ed13c82bec 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hypercalls.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hypercalls.c
@@ -580,6 +580,13 @@ int kvm_arm_set_fw_reg(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, const struct kvm_one_reg *reg)
wants_02 = vcpu_has_feature(vcpu, KVM_ARM_VCPU_PSCI_0_2);
+ /*
+ * EL2 advertises PSCI 1.1; the host handles the forwarded calls
+ * by this version.
+ */
+ if (vcpu_is_protected(vcpu) && val < KVM_ARM_PSCI_1_1)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
switch (val) {
case KVM_ARM_PSCI_0_1:
if (wants_02)
--
2.39.5
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@ 2026-09-14 11:33 ` Fuad Tabba
2026-09-14 13:42 ` Marc Zyngier
2026-09-14 11:33 ` [PATCH v3 13/18] KVM: arm64: Inject an UNDEF at EL2 for unhandled protected guest exits Fuad Tabba
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17 siblings, 1 reply; 21+ messages in thread
From: Fuad Tabba @ 2026-09-14 11:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: maz, oupton, kvmarm, linux-arm-kernel, linux-kernel
Cc: catalin.marinas, will, joey.gouly, seiden, suzuki.poulose,
yuzenghui, mark.rutland, steven.price, vdonnefort, qperret,
tabba
__kvm_adjust_pc() lets the host advance a vCPU's PC or inject an
exception, which for a protected vCPU would let the host redirect
guest execution. Drop the request there: the entry handlers apply the
host's PC_UPDATE_REQ on re-entry, where EL2 allows it.
__kvm_adjust_pc() adjusts the vCPU a get/put pair returns, the one it
was given outside pKVM. Both host callers hold the vCPU mutex, so a
hyp vCPU loaded for the vCPU is loaded on the calling CPU. The request
for a loaded protected vCPU is dropped. For a loaded non-protected
vCPU, PKVM_HOST_STATE_DIRTY selects the copy, since adjusting the hyp
vCPU while the host copy is authoritative loses the update at the next
flush. Adjusting the hyp vCPU copies PC_UPDATE_REQ in and back out
again: without the copy back, INCREMENT_PC outlives the adjustment and
the next KVM_SET_VCPU_EVENTS trips WARN_ON(INCREMENT_PC) in
kvm_pend_exception(). With no hyp vCPU loaded, as under
KVM_SET_VCPU_EVENTS, the host copy is adjusted as before.
Until the marshalling patch clears PC_UPDATE_REQ on the host copy at
exit, a KVM_RUN that returns to userspace with INCREMENT_PC set leaves
it on the host copy of a loaded protected vCPU, and a
KVM_SET_VCPU_EVENTS before the next run then trips that WARN_ON.
Suggested-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Fuad Tabba <fuad.tabba@linux.dev>
---
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/exception.c | 21 +++++++++-----
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/hyp/adjust_pc.h | 19 +++++++++++++
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-main.c | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 65 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/exception.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/exception.c
index 6e60d890afa4a..7ea62e5304ae9 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/exception.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/exception.c
@@ -353,12 +353,19 @@ static void kvm_inject_exception(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
*/
void __kvm_adjust_pc(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
{
- if (vcpu_get_flag(vcpu, PENDING_EXCEPTION)) {
- kvm_inject_exception(vcpu);
- vcpu_clear_flag(vcpu, PENDING_EXCEPTION);
- vcpu_clear_flag(vcpu, EXCEPT_MASK);
- } else if (vcpu_get_flag(vcpu, INCREMENT_PC)) {
- kvm_skip_instr(vcpu);
- vcpu_clear_flag(vcpu, INCREMENT_PC);
+ struct kvm_vcpu *target = pkvm_adjust_pc_get(vcpu);
+
+ if (!target)
+ return;
+
+ if (vcpu_get_flag(target, PENDING_EXCEPTION)) {
+ kvm_inject_exception(target);
+ vcpu_clear_flag(target, PENDING_EXCEPTION);
+ vcpu_clear_flag(target, EXCEPT_MASK);
+ } else if (vcpu_get_flag(target, INCREMENT_PC)) {
+ kvm_skip_instr(target);
+ vcpu_clear_flag(target, INCREMENT_PC);
}
+
+ pkvm_adjust_pc_put(vcpu, target);
}
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/hyp/adjust_pc.h b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/hyp/adjust_pc.h
index a4fb04faa7d09..94ba768996032 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/hyp/adjust_pc.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/hyp/adjust_pc.h
@@ -68,4 +68,23 @@ static inline void kvm_skip_host_instr(void)
write_sysreg_el2(read_sysreg_el2(SYS_ELR) + 4, SYS_ELR);
}
+/*
+ * Under pKVM, the vCPU __kvm_adjust_pc() adjusts for @vcpu (NULL drops the
+ * request), and the copy of the consumed PC_UPDATE_REQ back to @vcpu.
+ */
+#ifdef __KVM_NVHE_HYPERVISOR__
+struct kvm_vcpu *pkvm_adjust_pc_get(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu);
+void pkvm_adjust_pc_put(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_vcpu *target);
+#else
+static inline struct kvm_vcpu *pkvm_adjust_pc_get(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
+{
+ return vcpu;
+}
+
+static inline void pkvm_adjust_pc_put(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
+ struct kvm_vcpu *target)
+{
+}
+#endif
+
#endif
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-main.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-main.c
index da8ab636063cf..1dcc75261dc08 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-main.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-main.c
@@ -642,6 +642,38 @@ static void handle___pkvm_host_mkyoung_guest(struct kvm_cpu_context *host_ctxt)
cpu_reg(host_ctxt, 1) = ret;
}
+/*
+ * PKVM_HOST_STATE_DIRTY names the authoritative copy, the host's when set.
+ * A loaded protected vCPU takes the request at its next entry instead.
+ */
+struct kvm_vcpu *pkvm_adjust_pc_get(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
+{
+ struct pkvm_hyp_vcpu *hyp_vcpu;
+
+ if (!is_protected_kvm_enabled())
+ return vcpu;
+
+ hyp_vcpu = pkvm_get_loaded_hyp_vcpu();
+ if (!hyp_vcpu || hyp_vcpu->host_vcpu != vcpu)
+ return vcpu;
+
+ if (pkvm_hyp_vcpu_is_protected(hyp_vcpu))
+ return NULL;
+
+ if (vcpu_get_flag(vcpu, PKVM_HOST_STATE_DIRTY))
+ return vcpu;
+
+ vcpu_copy_flag(&hyp_vcpu->vcpu, vcpu, PC_UPDATE_REQ);
+ return &hyp_vcpu->vcpu;
+}
+
+/* Reflect the consumed request back, otherwise it stays pending. */
+void pkvm_adjust_pc_put(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_vcpu *target)
+{
+ if (target != vcpu)
+ vcpu_copy_flag(vcpu, target, PC_UPDATE_REQ);
+}
+
static void handle___kvm_adjust_pc(struct kvm_cpu_context *host_ctxt)
{
DECLARE_REG(struct kvm_vcpu *, vcpu, host_ctxt, 1);
--
2.39.5
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2026-09-14 11:33 ` [PATCH v3 12/18] KVM: arm64: Prevent host PC adjustments for protected vCPUs Fuad Tabba
@ 2026-09-14 13:42 ` Marc Zyngier
2026-09-14 14:43 ` Fuad Tabba
0 siblings, 1 reply; 21+ messages in thread
From: Marc Zyngier @ 2026-09-14 13:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fuad Tabba
Cc: oupton, kvmarm, linux-arm-kernel, linux-kernel, catalin.marinas,
will, joey.gouly, seiden, suzuki.poulose, yuzenghui,
mark.rutland, steven.price, vdonnefort, qperret, tabba
On Mon, 14 Sep 2026 12:33:32 +0100,
Fuad Tabba <fuad.tabba@linux.dev> wrote:
>
> __kvm_adjust_pc() lets the host advance a vCPU's PC or inject an
> exception, which for a protected vCPU would let the host redirect
> guest execution. Drop the request there: the entry handlers apply the
> host's PC_UPDATE_REQ on re-entry, where EL2 allows it.
>
> __kvm_adjust_pc() adjusts the vCPU a get/put pair returns, the one it
> was given outside pKVM. Both host callers hold the vCPU mutex, so a
> hyp vCPU loaded for the vCPU is loaded on the calling CPU. The request
> for a loaded protected vCPU is dropped. For a loaded non-protected
> vCPU, PKVM_HOST_STATE_DIRTY selects the copy, since adjusting the hyp
> vCPU while the host copy is authoritative loses the update at the next
> flush. Adjusting the hyp vCPU copies PC_UPDATE_REQ in and back out
> again: without the copy back, INCREMENT_PC outlives the adjustment and
> the next KVM_SET_VCPU_EVENTS trips WARN_ON(INCREMENT_PC) in
> kvm_pend_exception(). With no hyp vCPU loaded, as under
> KVM_SET_VCPU_EVENTS, the host copy is adjusted as before.
>
> Until the marshalling patch clears PC_UPDATE_REQ on the host copy at
> exit, a KVM_RUN that returns to userspace with INCREMENT_PC set leaves
> it on the host copy of a loaded protected vCPU, and a
> KVM_SET_VCPU_EVENTS before the next run then trips that WARN_ON.
>
> Suggested-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Fuad Tabba <fuad.tabba@linux.dev>
> ---
> arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/exception.c | 21 +++++++++-----
> arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/include/hyp/adjust_pc.h | 19 +++++++++++++
> arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-main.c | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> 3 files changed, 65 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/exception.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/exception.c
> index 6e60d890afa4a..7ea62e5304ae9 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/exception.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/exception.c
> @@ -353,12 +353,19 @@ static void kvm_inject_exception(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> */
> void __kvm_adjust_pc(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> {
> - if (vcpu_get_flag(vcpu, PENDING_EXCEPTION)) {
> - kvm_inject_exception(vcpu);
> - vcpu_clear_flag(vcpu, PENDING_EXCEPTION);
> - vcpu_clear_flag(vcpu, EXCEPT_MASK);
> - } else if (vcpu_get_flag(vcpu, INCREMENT_PC)) {
> - kvm_skip_instr(vcpu);
> - vcpu_clear_flag(vcpu, INCREMENT_PC);
> + struct kvm_vcpu *target = pkvm_adjust_pc_get(vcpu);
nit: it is really odd to see this 'pkvm' prefix in generic code. The
point of it is not only to abstract the pvkm complexity away, but also
to have a wrapper that may be of use in other situations.
Don't respin the series just for this though, I may end-up changing
this when applying it.
> + if (!target)
> + return;
> +
I find this one scary, see below.
[...]
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-main.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-main.c
> index da8ab636063cf..1dcc75261dc08 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-main.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-main.c
> @@ -642,6 +642,38 @@ static void handle___pkvm_host_mkyoung_guest(struct kvm_cpu_context *host_ctxt)
> cpu_reg(host_ctxt, 1) = ret;
> }
>
> +/*
> + * PKVM_HOST_STATE_DIRTY names the authoritative copy, the host's when set.
> + * A loaded protected vCPU takes the request at its next entry instead.
> + */
> +struct kvm_vcpu *pkvm_adjust_pc_get(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> +{
> + struct pkvm_hyp_vcpu *hyp_vcpu;
> +
> + if (!is_protected_kvm_enabled())
> + return vcpu;
> +
> + hyp_vcpu = pkvm_get_loaded_hyp_vcpu();
> + if (!hyp_vcpu || hyp_vcpu->host_vcpu != vcpu)
Under which circumstances do we get hyp_vcpu->host_vcpu != vcpu?
> + return vcpu;
> +
> + if (pkvm_hyp_vcpu_is_protected(hyp_vcpu))
> + return NULL;
Is it always the case that a protected vcpu cannot see its PC adjusted
at all? How is PC updated after an exit for MMIO? I feel there is an
interaction with the above, but I'm not 100% certain...
> +
> + if (vcpu_get_flag(vcpu, PKVM_HOST_STATE_DIRTY))
> + return vcpu;
> +
> + vcpu_copy_flag(&hyp_vcpu->vcpu, vcpu, PC_UPDATE_REQ);
> + return &hyp_vcpu->vcpu;
> +}
> +
> +/* Reflect the consumed request back, otherwise it stays pending. */
> +void pkvm_adjust_pc_put(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_vcpu *target)
> +{
> + if (target != vcpu)
> + vcpu_copy_flag(vcpu, target, PC_UPDATE_REQ);
> +}
> +
> static void handle___kvm_adjust_pc(struct kvm_cpu_context *host_ctxt)
> {
> DECLARE_REG(struct kvm_vcpu *, vcpu, host_ctxt, 1);
Thanks,
M.
--
Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
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2026-09-14 13:42 ` Marc Zyngier
@ 2026-09-14 14:43 ` Fuad Tabba
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From: Fuad Tabba @ 2026-09-14 14:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Marc Zyngier
Cc: oupton, kvmarm, linux-arm-kernel, linux-kernel, catalin.marinas,
will, joey.gouly, seiden, suzuki.poulose, yuzenghui,
mark.rutland, steven.price, vdonnefort, qperret
Hi Marc,
On Mon, 14 Sept 2026 at 14:42, Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> wrote:
[...]
> nit: it is really odd to see this 'pkvm' prefix in generic code. The
> point of it is not only to abstract the pvkm complexity away, but also
> to have a wrapper that may be of use in other situations.
>
> Don't respin the series just for this though, I may end-up changing
> this when applying it.
Agree, if I respin I'll rename it.
[...]
> > + hyp_vcpu = pkvm_get_loaded_hyp_vcpu();
> > + if (!hyp_vcpu || hyp_vcpu->host_vcpu != vcpu)
>
> Under which circumstances do we get hyp_vcpu->host_vcpu != vcpu?
When EL2 calls __kvm_adjust_pc() on the hyp vCPU itself:
__kvm_vcpu_run() at guest entry and inject_sync64() in nvhe/sys_regs.c
both pass &hyp_vcpu->vcpu. There the vCPU passed is the one to adjust,
so it's returned as is.
> > + if (pkvm_hyp_vcpu_is_protected(hyp_vcpu))
> > + return NULL;
>
> Is it always the case that a protected vcpu cannot see its PC adjusted
> at all? How is PC updated after an exit for MMIO? I feel there is an
> interaction with the above, but I'm not 100% certain...
The host can't adjust it directly, EL2 applies the host's request at
the next entry. For MMIO, handle_pvm_exit_dabt() sets mmio_needed on
the hyp vCPU from EL2's own syndrome, the host completes the access
and kvm_handle_mmio_return() sets INCREMENT_PC on the host copy, and
handle_pvm_entry_dabt() increments the hyp vCPU's PC at the next entry
if EL2 had an MMIO pending, through the &hyp_vcpu->vcpu case above.
The NULL return clears nothing, so the request stays on the host copy
for that entry. It's reached from the epilogue of
kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run(), e.g. an MMIO completed on an immediate_exit
run, and consuming it on the host copy there would clear INCREMENT_PC
before EL2 sees it, so the guest would re-execute the access.
"Drop" in the commit message and the adjust_pc.h comment reads as
losing the request. I'll reword if I respin.
Cheers,
/fuad
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From: Fuad Tabba @ 2026-09-14 11:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: maz, oupton, kvmarm, linux-arm-kernel, linux-kernel
Cc: catalin.marinas, will, joey.gouly, seiden, suzuki.poulose,
yuzenghui, mark.rutland, steven.price, vdonnefort, qperret,
tabba
Make pvm_exit_handlers[] an allow-list: a protected guest's exit class
is handled at EL2, forwarded where the host emulates it, or results in
an UNDEF at EL2. Any other class, once forwarded, would re-execute
forever. The host resolves such an exit by injecting an exception or
incrementing the PC. The marshalling that follows allows neither: a
protected vCPU takes only the UNDEF on a SYS64 trap and the external
abort on a forwarded IABT or DABT that EL2 builds for it.
WFxT takes the UNDEF, as it isn't advertised to protected guests.
FP/SIMD keeps the lazy switch, and the watchpoint entry is dropped: a
protected vCPU runs with TDE clear.
Signed-off-by: Fuad Tabba <fuad.tabba@linux.dev>
---
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/switch.c | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/switch.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/switch.c
index 7318e3e6a5f36..afddcf14f366e 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/switch.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/switch.c
@@ -203,15 +203,36 @@ static const exit_handler_fn hyp_exit_handlers[] = {
[ESR_ELx_EC_MOPS] = kvm_hyp_handle_mops,
};
+/* WFI/WFE exit to the host, which emulates them. WFxT is not offered. */
+static bool kvm_handle_pvm_wfx(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 *exit_code)
+{
+ if (kvm_vcpu_get_esr(vcpu) & ESR_ELx_WFx_ISS_WFxT)
+ return kvm_handle_pvm_restricted(vcpu, exit_code);
+
+ return false;
+}
+
+/* Lazy FP/SIMD switch, or the UNDEF the host would otherwise be asked for. */
+static bool kvm_handle_pvm_fpsimd(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 *exit_code)
+{
+ if (kvm_hyp_handle_fpsimd(vcpu, exit_code))
+ return true;
+
+ return kvm_handle_pvm_restricted(vcpu, exit_code);
+}
+
+/*
+ * A class not listed takes an UNDEF at EL2: the host has no way to
+ * inject one into a protected vCPU.
+ */
static const exit_handler_fn pvm_exit_handlers[] = {
- [0 ... ESR_ELx_EC_MAX] = NULL,
+ [0 ... ESR_ELx_EC_MAX] = kvm_handle_pvm_restricted,
+ [ESR_ELx_EC_WFx] = kvm_handle_pvm_wfx,
[ESR_ELx_EC_HVC64] = kvm_handle_pvm_hvc64,
[ESR_ELx_EC_SYS64] = kvm_handle_pvm_sys64,
- [ESR_ELx_EC_SVE] = kvm_handle_pvm_restricted,
- [ESR_ELx_EC_FP_ASIMD] = kvm_hyp_handle_fpsimd,
+ [ESR_ELx_EC_FP_ASIMD] = kvm_handle_pvm_fpsimd,
[ESR_ELx_EC_IABT_LOW] = kvm_hyp_handle_iabt_low,
[ESR_ELx_EC_DABT_LOW] = kvm_hyp_handle_dabt_low,
- [ESR_ELx_EC_WATCHPT_LOW] = kvm_hyp_handle_watchpt_low,
[ESR_ELx_EC_MOPS] = kvm_hyp_handle_mops,
};
--
2.39.5
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From: Fuad Tabba @ 2026-09-14 11:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: maz, oupton, kvmarm, linux-arm-kernel, linux-kernel
Cc: catalin.marinas, will, joey.gouly, seiden, suzuki.poulose,
yuzenghui, mark.rutland, steven.price, vdonnefort, qperret,
tabba
Move a protected guest's state between the hyp vCPU and the host per
exception class instead of copying the whole context. Add
entry_hyp_pvm_handlers[] and exit_hyp_pvm_handlers[] for WFx, SYS64,
IABT, DABT and HVC64, and route protected guests through them: on exit
each handler copies out only what its class needs, and on re-entry
only what the host may have changed: the PC update or exception it
requested (PC_UPDATE_REQ), the value of a read it emulated, and a
forwarded PSCI call's return value. entry_hyp_vm_handlers[] is
removed: a non-protected vCPU's iflags are copied wholesale.
The host's fault view is EL2's own syndrome with the guest register
index withheld, the deferred SError syndrome (DISR_EL1), and the
addresses each class needs. The value of a written register is passed
in r0. MMIO data is clamped to the access width and, for a load,
sign-extended at EL2 from EL2's syndrome. Endianness stays with the
host. A data abort's PC update is taken for a completed MMIO access,
and for a cache maintenance operation the host skips on unbacked
memory, as it does for any guest.
The host's copy of a protected vCPU's PSTATE is a view the guest never
runs from: its reset value has PSTATE.A set, and EL2 sets PSTATE.A in
the mode it copies out regardless of the guest's, so, unless the VMM
wrote the host copy's PSTATE or SCTLR2_EL1 before the first run,
serror_is_masked() is true and kvm_inject_serror_esr() pends a
host-injected SError through HCR_EL2.VSE, masked by the guest's own
PSTATE.A, instead of emulating the entry on that copy.
Neither dispatch runs for a trap taken with an SError pending: EL2
doesn't handle it, and the guest replays it once the host has
injected the SError. The exit handlers would otherwise marshal a trap
EL2 never handled, and handle_pvm_exit_hvc64() would panic on an
unfiltered function id.
For HVC64, only the PSCI calls EL2 forwards reach the host: the exit
handler passes the function id and the arguments each call needs, and
the entry handler returns the host's result. A CPU_ON the host failed
is rolled back to OFF and returned as INTERNAL_FAILURE, or as
ALREADY_ON when that's what the host returned: PSCI defines it as the
retry signal for a CPU_ON that reaches the implementation before the
target's CPU_OFF has been processed (DEN0022 section 6.6), which a
guest that doesn't poll AFFINITY_INFO first can do. A target that
already ran returns SUCCESS. The rollback leaves the published reset
state in place: clearing it races a fresh CPU_ON's publication and
wedges the target at ON_PENDING, and the entry point left behind is one
the guest supplied. The rollback's cmpxchg carries no generation, so
one that lands after a later CPU_ON has republished ON_PENDING cancels
that cycle too. The target is then OFF at EL2 while the host has it
runnable, and its CPU_ONs return ALREADY_ON until the VMM stops it
again.
Signed-off-by: Fuad Tabba <fuad.tabba@linux.dev>
---
arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-main.c | 430 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 407 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-main.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-main.c
index 1dcc75261dc08..3d59c4827c42a 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-main.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-main.c
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
* Author: Andrew Scull <ascull@google.com>
*/
+#include <kvm/arm_hypercalls.h>
+
#include <hyp/adjust_pc.h>
#include <hyp/switch.h>
@@ -34,13 +36,366 @@ void __kvm_hyp_host_forward_smc(struct kvm_cpu_context *host_ctxt);
typedef void (*hyp_entry_exit_handler_fn)(struct pkvm_hyp_vcpu *);
-static void handle_vm_entry_generic(struct pkvm_hyp_vcpu *hyp_vcpu)
+static bool pvm_sys64_is_write(u64 esr)
{
- vcpu_copy_flag(&hyp_vcpu->vcpu, hyp_vcpu->host_vcpu, PC_UPDATE_REQ);
+ return (esr & ESR_ELx_SYS64_ISS_DIR_MASK) == ESR_ELx_SYS64_ISS_DIR_WRITE;
}
-static const hyp_entry_exit_handler_fn entry_hyp_vm_handlers[] = {
- [0 ... ESR_ELx_EC_MAX] = handle_vm_entry_generic,
+static void handle_pvm_entry_wfx(struct pkvm_hyp_vcpu *hyp_vcpu)
+{
+ struct kvm_vcpu *host_vcpu = hyp_vcpu->host_vcpu;
+
+ /* Exceptions have priority; the host injects none on WFx. */
+ if (vcpu_get_flag(host_vcpu, PENDING_EXCEPTION))
+ return;
+
+ if (vcpu_get_flag(host_vcpu, INCREMENT_PC)) {
+ vcpu_clear_flag(&hyp_vcpu->vcpu, PC_UPDATE_REQ);
+ kvm_incr_pc(&hyp_vcpu->vcpu);
+ }
+}
+
+static void handle_pvm_entry_sys64(struct pkvm_hyp_vcpu *hyp_vcpu)
+{
+ struct kvm_vcpu *host_vcpu = hyp_vcpu->host_vcpu;
+ bool pc_update;
+
+ /* Exceptions have priority over anything else */
+ if (vcpu_get_flag(host_vcpu, PENDING_EXCEPTION)) {
+ /* A host-requested exception on SYS64 is always an UNDEF. */
+ u32 esr = (ESR_ELx_EC_UNKNOWN << ESR_ELx_EC_SHIFT) | ESR_ELx_IL;
+
+ __vcpu_assign_sys_reg(&hyp_vcpu->vcpu, ESR_EL1, esr);
+ kvm_pend_exception(&hyp_vcpu->vcpu, EXCEPT_AA64_EL1_SYNC);
+ return;
+ }
+
+ /* Handle PC increment on a host-emulated access */
+ pc_update = vcpu_get_flag(host_vcpu, INCREMENT_PC);
+ if (pc_update) {
+ vcpu_clear_flag(&hyp_vcpu->vcpu, PC_UPDATE_REQ);
+ kvm_incr_pc(&hyp_vcpu->vcpu);
+ }
+
+ /* If the host emulated a read access, update the register */
+ if (pc_update &&
+ !pvm_sys64_is_write(hyp_vcpu->vcpu.arch.fault.esr_el2)) {
+ /* r0 as transfer register between the guest and the host. */
+ u64 rt_val = READ_ONCE(host_vcpu->arch.ctxt.regs.regs[0]);
+ int rt = kvm_vcpu_sys_get_rt(&hyp_vcpu->vcpu);
+
+ vcpu_set_reg(&hyp_vcpu->vcpu, rt, rt_val);
+ }
+}
+
+static void handle_pvm_entry_iabt(struct pkvm_hyp_vcpu *hyp_vcpu)
+{
+ unsigned long cpsr = *vcpu_cpsr(&hyp_vcpu->vcpu);
+ u32 esr = ESR_ELx_IL;
+
+ if (!vcpu_get_flag(hyp_vcpu->host_vcpu, PENDING_EXCEPTION))
+ return;
+
+ /* The host's only IABT injection: an external abort. */
+ if ((cpsr & PSR_MODE_MASK) == PSR_MODE_EL0t)
+ esr |= (ESR_ELx_EC_IABT_LOW << ESR_ELx_EC_SHIFT);
+ else
+ esr |= (ESR_ELx_EC_IABT_CUR << ESR_ELx_EC_SHIFT);
+
+ esr |= ESR_ELx_FSC_EXTABT;
+
+ __vcpu_assign_sys_reg(&hyp_vcpu->vcpu, ESR_EL1, esr);
+ __vcpu_assign_sys_reg(&hyp_vcpu->vcpu, FAR_EL1,
+ kvm_vcpu_get_hfar(&hyp_vcpu->vcpu));
+
+ /* Injected by __kvm_adjust_pc() on entry. */
+ kvm_pend_exception(&hyp_vcpu->vcpu, EXCEPT_AA64_EL1_SYNC);
+}
+
+/*
+ * Clamp MMIO data to the access width, so a write does not leak the
+ * register's upper bits and a read takes no bits beyond the load. The
+ * host applies endianness.
+ */
+static inline u64 kvm_mmio_clamp_data(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 val)
+{
+ unsigned int len = kvm_vcpu_dabt_get_as(vcpu);
+
+ return val & GENMASK_U64(len * 8 - 1, 0);
+}
+
+/*
+ * Complete an MMIO load: sign-extend from EL2's own syndrome, as the
+ * architecture does.
+ */
+static inline u64 kvm_mmio_read_data(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 val)
+{
+ val = kvm_mmio_clamp_data(vcpu, val);
+
+ if (kvm_vcpu_dabt_issext(vcpu))
+ val = sign_extend64(val, kvm_vcpu_dabt_get_as(vcpu) * 8 - 1);
+
+ if (!kvm_vcpu_dabt_issf(vcpu))
+ val &= GENMASK_U64(31, 0);
+
+ return val;
+}
+
+static void handle_pvm_entry_dabt(struct pkvm_hyp_vcpu *hyp_vcpu)
+{
+ struct kvm_vcpu *host_vcpu = hyp_vcpu->host_vcpu;
+ bool pc_update;
+
+ /* Exceptions have priority over anything else */
+ if (vcpu_get_flag(host_vcpu, PENDING_EXCEPTION)) {
+ unsigned long cpsr = *vcpu_cpsr(&hyp_vcpu->vcpu);
+ u32 esr = ESR_ELx_IL;
+
+ if ((cpsr & PSR_MODE_MASK) == PSR_MODE_EL0t)
+ esr |= (ESR_ELx_EC_DABT_LOW << ESR_ELx_EC_SHIFT);
+ else
+ esr |= (ESR_ELx_EC_DABT_CUR << ESR_ELx_EC_SHIFT);
+
+ esr |= ESR_ELx_FSC_EXTABT;
+
+ __vcpu_assign_sys_reg(&hyp_vcpu->vcpu, ESR_EL1, esr);
+ __vcpu_assign_sys_reg(&hyp_vcpu->vcpu, FAR_EL1,
+ kvm_vcpu_get_hfar(&hyp_vcpu->vcpu));
+
+ /* Injected by __kvm_adjust_pc() on entry. */
+ kvm_pend_exception(&hyp_vcpu->vcpu, EXCEPT_AA64_EL1_SYNC);
+
+ /* Cancel any in-flight MMIO */
+ hyp_vcpu->vcpu.mmio_needed = false;
+ return;
+ }
+
+ /* Handle PC increment on MMIO, or on a CMO the host skipped */
+ pc_update = vcpu_get_flag(host_vcpu, INCREMENT_PC) &&
+ (hyp_vcpu->vcpu.mmio_needed ||
+ kvm_vcpu_dabt_is_cm(&hyp_vcpu->vcpu));
+ if (pc_update) {
+ vcpu_clear_flag(&hyp_vcpu->vcpu, PC_UPDATE_REQ);
+ kvm_incr_pc(&hyp_vcpu->vcpu);
+ }
+
+ /* If the host emulated an MMIO read, update the register */
+ if (pc_update && hyp_vcpu->vcpu.mmio_needed &&
+ !kvm_vcpu_dabt_iswrite(&hyp_vcpu->vcpu)) {
+ /* r0 as transfer register between the guest and the host. */
+ u64 rd_val = READ_ONCE(host_vcpu->arch.ctxt.regs.regs[0]);
+ int rd = kvm_vcpu_dabt_get_rd(&hyp_vcpu->vcpu);
+
+ rd_val = kvm_mmio_read_data(&hyp_vcpu->vcpu, rd_val);
+ vcpu_set_reg(&hyp_vcpu->vcpu, rd, rd_val);
+ }
+
+ hyp_vcpu->vcpu.mmio_needed = false;
+}
+
+static void handle_pvm_entry_hvc64(struct pkvm_hyp_vcpu *hyp_vcpu)
+{
+ u64 ret = READ_ONCE(hyp_vcpu->host_vcpu->arch.ctxt.regs.regs[0]);
+ u32 psci_fn = smccc_get_function(&hyp_vcpu->vcpu);
+
+ switch (psci_fn) {
+ case PSCI_0_2_FN_CPU_ON:
+ case PSCI_0_2_FN64_CPU_ON:
+ /*
+ * Roll back a CPU_ON the host failed, unless the target
+ * already reached ON: it is running, and the guest sees
+ * SUCCESS.
+ */
+ if (ret != PSCI_RET_SUCCESS) {
+ unsigned long cpu_id = smccc_get_arg1(&hyp_vcpu->vcpu);
+ struct pkvm_hyp_vcpu *target_vcpu;
+ struct pkvm_hyp_vm *hyp_vm;
+ int prev;
+
+ hyp_vm = pkvm_hyp_vcpu_to_hyp_vm(hyp_vcpu);
+ target_vcpu = pkvm_mpidr_to_hyp_vcpu(hyp_vm, cpu_id);
+
+ /*
+ * pvm_psci_vcpu_on() resolved this MPIDR and vcpus[]
+ * entries are never removed, so the lookup cannot miss.
+ */
+ prev = cmpxchg_relaxed(&target_vcpu->power_state,
+ PSCI_0_2_AFFINITY_LEVEL_ON_PENDING,
+ PSCI_0_2_AFFINITY_LEVEL_OFF);
+ switch (prev) {
+ case PSCI_0_2_AFFINITY_LEVEL_ON_PENDING:
+ /*
+ * Leave reset_state.reset set: a clear races a
+ * fresh CPU_ON's publish. The stale pc/r0/be are
+ * the guest's own. ALREADY_ON is PSCI's retry
+ * signal for a CPU_ON that raced the CPU_OFF.
+ */
+ if (ret != PSCI_RET_ALREADY_ON)
+ ret = PSCI_RET_INTERNAL_FAILURE;
+ break;
+ case PSCI_0_2_AFFINITY_LEVEL_ON:
+ case PSCI_0_2_AFFINITY_LEVEL_OFF:
+ /* Target already ran (and may have stopped). */
+ ret = PSCI_RET_SUCCESS;
+ break;
+ default:
+ ret = PSCI_RET_INTERNAL_FAILURE;
+ break;
+ }
+ }
+
+ break;
+ default:
+ break;
+ }
+
+ vcpu_set_reg(&hyp_vcpu->vcpu, 0, ret);
+}
+
+/* The host's view of a syndrome: the guest register index is withheld. */
+static u64 pvm_host_esr(u64 esr)
+{
+ switch (ESR_ELx_EC(esr)) {
+ case ESR_ELx_EC_WFx:
+ return esr & ~ESR_ELx_WFx_ISS_RN;
+ case ESR_ELx_EC_SYS64:
+ return esr & ~ESR_ELx_SYS64_ISS_RT_MASK;
+ case ESR_ELx_EC_DABT_LOW:
+ return esr & ~ESR_ELx_SRT_MASK;
+ default:
+ return esr;
+ }
+}
+
+/*
+ * The host's view of PSTATE: the mode, with SErrors masked so that the host
+ * pends an SError through HCR_EL2.VSE rather than emulating the entry.
+ */
+static u64 pvm_host_pstate(u64 pstate)
+{
+ return (pstate & PSR_MODE_MASK) | PSR_A_BIT;
+}
+
+static void handle_pvm_exit_wfx(struct pkvm_hyp_vcpu *hyp_vcpu)
+{
+ hyp_vcpu->host_vcpu->arch.ctxt.regs.pstate =
+ pvm_host_pstate(hyp_vcpu->vcpu.arch.ctxt.regs.pstate);
+}
+
+static void handle_pvm_exit_sys64(struct pkvm_hyp_vcpu *hyp_vcpu)
+{
+ struct kvm_vcpu *host_vcpu = hyp_vcpu->host_vcpu;
+ u32 esr_el2 = hyp_vcpu->vcpu.arch.fault.esr_el2;
+
+ /* The mode is required for the host to emulate some sysregs */
+ host_vcpu->arch.ctxt.regs.pstate =
+ pvm_host_pstate(hyp_vcpu->vcpu.arch.ctxt.regs.pstate);
+
+ /* r0 as transfer register between the guest and the host. */
+ if (pvm_sys64_is_write(esr_el2)) {
+ int rt = kvm_vcpu_sys_get_rt(&hyp_vcpu->vcpu);
+ u64 rt_val = vcpu_get_reg(&hyp_vcpu->vcpu, rt);
+
+ host_vcpu->arch.ctxt.regs.regs[0] = rt_val;
+ }
+}
+
+static void handle_pvm_exit_iabt(struct pkvm_hyp_vcpu *hyp_vcpu)
+{
+ hyp_vcpu->host_vcpu->arch.fault.hpfar_el2 =
+ hyp_vcpu->vcpu.arch.fault.hpfar_el2;
+}
+
+static void handle_pvm_exit_dabt(struct pkvm_hyp_vcpu *hyp_vcpu)
+{
+ struct kvm_vcpu *host_vcpu = hyp_vcpu->host_vcpu;
+
+ /*
+ * EL2 has no memslot view: a decodable data abort is prepared as MMIO
+ * for the host to resolve. On unbacked memory the host injects an SEA
+ * for one with ISV clear (LDP/STP, atomics), which EL2 does not
+ * decode, and skips a cache maintenance operation, as for any guest.
+ */
+ hyp_vcpu->vcpu.mmio_needed = kvm_vcpu_dabt_isvalid(&hyp_vcpu->vcpu);
+
+ /* r0 as transfer register between the guest and the host. */
+ if (hyp_vcpu->vcpu.mmio_needed &&
+ kvm_vcpu_dabt_iswrite(&hyp_vcpu->vcpu)) {
+ int rt = kvm_vcpu_dabt_get_rd(&hyp_vcpu->vcpu);
+ u64 rt_val = vcpu_get_reg(&hyp_vcpu->vcpu, rt);
+
+ rt_val = kvm_mmio_clamp_data(&hyp_vcpu->vcpu, rt_val);
+ host_vcpu->arch.ctxt.regs.regs[0] = rt_val;
+ }
+
+ host_vcpu->arch.ctxt.regs.pstate =
+ pvm_host_pstate(hyp_vcpu->vcpu.arch.ctxt.regs.pstate);
+ host_vcpu->arch.fault.far_el2 =
+ hyp_vcpu->vcpu.arch.fault.far_el2 & GENMASK(11, 0);
+ host_vcpu->arch.fault.hpfar_el2 = hyp_vcpu->vcpu.arch.fault.hpfar_el2;
+ __vcpu_assign_sys_reg(host_vcpu, SCTLR_EL1,
+ __vcpu_sys_reg(&hyp_vcpu->vcpu, SCTLR_EL1) &
+ (SCTLR_ELx_EE | SCTLR_EL1_E0E));
+}
+
+static void handle_pvm_exit_hvc64(struct pkvm_hyp_vcpu *hyp_vcpu)
+{
+ struct kvm_vcpu *host_vcpu = hyp_vcpu->host_vcpu;
+ int n, i;
+
+ switch (smccc_get_function(&hyp_vcpu->vcpu)) {
+ /*
+ * CPU_ON: the host needs only the target MPIDR (x1). EL2 resets the
+ * target from its own copy of the entry point and context id.
+ */
+ case PSCI_0_2_FN_CPU_ON:
+ case PSCI_0_2_FN64_CPU_ON:
+ n = 2;
+ break;
+
+ case PSCI_0_2_FN_CPU_OFF:
+ case PSCI_0_2_FN_SYSTEM_OFF:
+ case PSCI_0_2_FN_SYSTEM_RESET:
+ case PSCI_0_2_FN_CPU_SUSPEND:
+ case PSCI_0_2_FN64_CPU_SUSPEND:
+ n = 1;
+ break;
+
+ case PSCI_0_2_FN_AFFINITY_INFO:
+ case PSCI_0_2_FN64_AFFINITY_INFO:
+ case PSCI_1_1_FN_SYSTEM_RESET2:
+ case PSCI_1_1_FN64_SYSTEM_RESET2:
+ n = 3;
+ break;
+
+ /* Unreachable: kvm_handle_pvm_hvc64() forwards only the calls above. */
+ default:
+ hyp_panic();
+ }
+
+ /* Pass the HVC function id (r0) and its arguments. */
+ for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+ host_vcpu->arch.ctxt.regs.regs[i] =
+ vcpu_get_reg(&hyp_vcpu->vcpu, i);
+ }
+}
+
+static const hyp_entry_exit_handler_fn entry_hyp_pvm_handlers[] = {
+ [0 ... ESR_ELx_EC_MAX] = NULL,
+ [ESR_ELx_EC_WFx] = handle_pvm_entry_wfx,
+ [ESR_ELx_EC_SYS64] = handle_pvm_entry_sys64,
+ [ESR_ELx_EC_IABT_LOW] = handle_pvm_entry_iabt,
+ [ESR_ELx_EC_DABT_LOW] = handle_pvm_entry_dabt,
+ [ESR_ELx_EC_HVC64] = handle_pvm_entry_hvc64,
+};
+
+static const hyp_entry_exit_handler_fn exit_hyp_pvm_handlers[] = {
+ [0 ... ESR_ELx_EC_MAX] = NULL,
+ [ESR_ELx_EC_WFx] = handle_pvm_exit_wfx,
+ [ESR_ELx_EC_SYS64] = handle_pvm_exit_sys64,
+ [ESR_ELx_EC_IABT_LOW] = handle_pvm_exit_iabt,
+ [ESR_ELx_EC_DABT_LOW] = handle_pvm_exit_dabt,
+ [ESR_ELx_EC_HVC64] = handle_pvm_exit_hvc64,
};
static void __hyp_sve_save_guest(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
@@ -282,18 +637,6 @@ static void flush_hyp_vcpu(struct pkvm_hyp_vcpu *hyp_vcpu)
hyp_vcpu->vcpu.arch.mdcr_el2 = host_vcpu->arch.mdcr_el2;
hyp_vcpu->vcpu.arch.iflags = host_vcpu->arch.iflags;
- } else {
- u64 v_cval = hyp_vcpu->vcpu.arch.ctxt.sys_regs[CNTV_CVAL_EL0];
- u64 v_ctl = hyp_vcpu->vcpu.arch.ctxt.sys_regs[CNTV_CTL_EL0];
- u64 p_cval = hyp_vcpu->vcpu.arch.ctxt.sys_regs[CNTP_CVAL_EL0];
- u64 p_ctl = hyp_vcpu->vcpu.arch.ctxt.sys_regs[CNTP_CTL_EL0];
-
- hyp_vcpu->vcpu.arch.ctxt = host_vcpu->arch.ctxt;
-
- hyp_vcpu->vcpu.arch.ctxt.sys_regs[CNTV_CVAL_EL0] = v_cval;
- hyp_vcpu->vcpu.arch.ctxt.sys_regs[CNTV_CTL_EL0] = v_ctl;
- hyp_vcpu->vcpu.arch.ctxt.sys_regs[CNTP_CVAL_EL0] = p_cval;
- hyp_vcpu->vcpu.arch.ctxt.sys_regs[CNTP_CTL_EL0] = p_ctl;
}
/* __hyp_running_vcpu must be NULL in a guest context. */
@@ -318,10 +661,16 @@ static void flush_hyp_vcpu(struct pkvm_hyp_vcpu *hyp_vcpu)
case ARM_EXCEPTION_IL:
break;
case ARM_EXCEPTION_TRAP:
- esr_ec = ESR_ELx_EC(kvm_vcpu_get_esr(&hyp_vcpu->vcpu));
- ec_handler = entry_hyp_vm_handlers[esr_ec];
- if (ec_handler)
- ec_handler(hyp_vcpu);
+ /* Nothing was marshalled for this trap, see sync_hyp_vcpu(). */
+ if (ARM_SERROR_PENDING(hyp_vcpu->exit_code))
+ break;
+
+ if (pkvm_hyp_vcpu_is_protected(hyp_vcpu)) {
+ esr_ec = ESR_ELx_EC(kvm_vcpu_get_esr(&hyp_vcpu->vcpu));
+ ec_handler = entry_hyp_pvm_handlers[esr_ec];
+ if (ec_handler)
+ ec_handler(hyp_vcpu);
+ }
break;
default:
BUG();
@@ -333,13 +682,26 @@ static void flush_hyp_vcpu(struct pkvm_hyp_vcpu *hyp_vcpu)
static void sync_hyp_vcpu(struct pkvm_hyp_vcpu *hyp_vcpu, u32 exit_reason)
{
struct kvm_vcpu *host_vcpu = hyp_vcpu->host_vcpu;
+ hyp_entry_exit_handler_fn ec_handler;
+ u8 esr_ec;
fpsimd_sve_sync(&hyp_vcpu->vcpu);
sync_debug_state(hyp_vcpu);
if (pkvm_hyp_vcpu_is_protected(hyp_vcpu)) {
- host_vcpu->arch.ctxt = hyp_vcpu->vcpu.arch.ctxt;
+ /*
+ * Protected: the host sees ESR_EL2 as EL2 took it, register
+ * index withheld; the fault addresses stay withheld unless the
+ * EC handler below adds them.
+ */
+ host_vcpu->arch.fault = (struct kvm_vcpu_fault_info) {
+ .esr_el2 = pvm_host_esr(hyp_vcpu->vcpu.arch.fault.esr_el2),
+ .disr_el1 = hyp_vcpu->vcpu.arch.fault.disr_el1,
+ };
} else {
+ /* Non-protected: the host gets the full fault. */
+ host_vcpu->arch.fault = hyp_vcpu->vcpu.arch.fault;
+ host_vcpu->arch.iflags = hyp_vcpu->vcpu.arch.iflags;
/*
* PC feeds trace_kvm_exit(), PSTATE.SS the host software-step
* machine, and both run before the next on-demand ctxt sync.
@@ -348,9 +710,28 @@ static void sync_hyp_vcpu(struct pkvm_hyp_vcpu *hyp_vcpu, u32 exit_reason)
host_vcpu->arch.ctxt.regs.pstate = hyp_vcpu->vcpu.arch.ctxt.regs.pstate;
}
- host_vcpu->arch.fault = hyp_vcpu->vcpu.arch.fault;
+ switch (ARM_EXCEPTION_CODE(exit_reason)) {
+ case ARM_EXCEPTION_IRQ:
+ break;
+ case ARM_EXCEPTION_TRAP:
+ /* SError pending: not handled at EL2, the guest replays it. */
+ if (ARM_SERROR_PENDING(exit_reason))
+ break;
- host_vcpu->arch.iflags = hyp_vcpu->vcpu.arch.iflags;
+ /* Per-EC marshalling is for protected guests only. */
+ if (pkvm_hyp_vcpu_is_protected(hyp_vcpu)) {
+ esr_ec = ESR_ELx_EC(kvm_vcpu_get_esr(&hyp_vcpu->vcpu));
+ ec_handler = exit_hyp_pvm_handlers[esr_ec];
+ if (ec_handler)
+ ec_handler(hyp_vcpu);
+ }
+ break;
+ case ARM_EXCEPTION_EL1_SERROR:
+ case ARM_EXCEPTION_IL:
+ break;
+ default:
+ BUG();
+ }
/* Cleared by hardware once the guest takes the vSError. */
host_vcpu->arch.hcr_el2 &= ~HCR_VSE;
@@ -359,6 +740,9 @@ static void sync_hyp_vcpu(struct pkvm_hyp_vcpu *hyp_vcpu, u32 exit_reason)
sync_hyp_vgic_state(hyp_vcpu);
sync_hyp_timer_state(hyp_vcpu);
+ if (pkvm_hyp_vcpu_is_protected(hyp_vcpu))
+ vcpu_clear_flag(host_vcpu, PC_UPDATE_REQ);
+
hyp_vcpu->exit_code = exit_reason;
}
--
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From: Fuad Tabba @ 2026-09-14 11:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: maz, oupton, kvmarm, linux-arm-kernel, linux-kernel
Cc: catalin.marinas, will, joey.gouly, seiden, suzuki.poulose,
yuzenghui, mark.rutland, steven.price, vdonnefort, qperret,
tabba
A protected vCPU's register and debug state is no longer exposed to
the host. Host ioctls that would reach that state now fail rather
than operate on a copy that isn't the guest's:
- KVM_GET_ONE_REG and KVM_SET_ONE_REG return -EPERM once the vCPU has
run: the copy then holds reset values plus what the exit handlers
marshal out. Pre-run access still builds the guest's boot state.
- KVM_ARM_VCPU_INIT returns -EPERM once the vCPU has run: it would
reset the host copy alone and rewrite mp_state, which EL2 reads
only at hyp vCPU creation, so a vCPU the guest powered off would
come back RUNNABLE.
- KVM_SET_VCPU_EVENTS rejects external-abort injection with -EPERM;
SError injection is forwarded and stays permitted.
- KVM_SET_GUEST_DEBUG returns -EPERM: a protected guest's debug state
is hypervisor-owned.
The KVM_{GET,SET}_ONE_REG and KVM_ARM_VCPU_INIT checks are one filter
on the ioctl number in kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl(), the only caller of the
three functions they were in. Its -EPERM now precedes the cases'
-EFAULT and the ONE_REG case's pending-reset handling, which the next
KVM_RUN performs. The external-abort check reads the payload, and
KVM_SET_GUEST_DEBUG has its own case in kvm_vcpu_ioctl(), so it never
reaches kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl(): those two stay in their handlers.
KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION returns 0 for KVM_CAP_ARM_INJECT_EXT_DABT and
KVM_CAP_SET_GUEST_DEBUG on a protected VM: kvm_pkvm_ext_allowed()
returns false on every capability it doesn't list, and the patch that
advertises the capabilities protected VMs support leaves these two
out. The two ioctl checks stay for a VMM that doesn't query
KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION.
Signed-off-by: Fuad Tabba <fuad.tabba@linux.dev>
---
arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
arch/arm64/kvm/guest.c | 11 +++++++++++
2 files changed, 32 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c
index ca6e109b3e5d6..0362f5f235e02 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c
@@ -1865,6 +1865,23 @@ static int kvm_arm_vcpu_set_events(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
return __kvm_arm_vcpu_set_events(vcpu, events);
}
+/*
+ * Once a protected vCPU has run, the host copy is not the guest's state,
+ * and EL2 has read mp_state, which it does only at hyp vCPU creation.
+ */
+static long pkvm_filter_vcpu_ioctl(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, unsigned int ioctl)
+{
+ switch (ioctl) {
+ case KVM_ARM_VCPU_INIT:
+ case KVM_SET_ONE_REG:
+ case KVM_GET_ONE_REG:
+ if (vcpu_is_protected(vcpu) && vcpu_has_run_once(vcpu))
+ return -EPERM;
+ }
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
long kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl(struct file *filp,
unsigned int ioctl, unsigned long arg)
{
@@ -1873,6 +1890,10 @@ long kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl(struct file *filp,
struct kvm_device_attr attr;
long r;
+ r = pkvm_filter_vcpu_ioctl(vcpu, ioctl);
+ if (r)
+ return r;
+
switch (ioctl) {
case KVM_ARM_VCPU_INIT: {
struct kvm_vcpu_init init;
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/guest.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/guest.c
index b01d6622b8720..d5e2e08f05461 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/guest.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/guest.c
@@ -786,6 +786,13 @@ int __kvm_arm_vcpu_set_events(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
u64 esr = events->exception.serror_esr;
int ret = 0;
+ /*
+ * EL2 injects an external abort only to complete a forwarded abort.
+ * SError injection is forwarded.
+ */
+ if (vcpu_is_protected(vcpu) && ext_dabt_pending)
+ return -EPERM;
+
/*
* Immediately commit the pending SEA to the vCPU's architectural
* state which is necessary since we do not return a pending SEA
@@ -883,6 +890,10 @@ int kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_set_guest_debug(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
{
trace_kvm_set_guest_debug(vcpu, dbg->control);
+ /* A protected guest's debug state is not exposed to the host. */
+ if (vcpu_is_protected(vcpu))
+ return -EPERM;
+
if (dbg->control & ~KVM_GUESTDBG_VALID_MASK)
return -EINVAL;
--
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@ 2026-09-14 11:33 ` Fuad Tabba
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From: Fuad Tabba @ 2026-09-14 11:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: maz, oupton, kvmarm, linux-arm-kernel, linux-kernel
Cc: catalin.marinas, will, joey.gouly, seiden, suzuki.poulose,
yuzenghui, mark.rutland, steven.price, vdonnefort, qperret,
tabba
A protected vCPU's power state belongs to EL2, which changes it only
on the guest's own PSCI calls. KVM_SET_MP_STATE(RUNNABLE) on a vCPU
EL2 holds powered off changes the host's copy alone, and the guest's
next CPU_ON of that vCPU then fails: mp_state is no longer STOPPED, so
the host returns ALREADY_ON, and the guest's retry fails the same way
until the VMM stops the vCPU again. SUSPENDED has the same effect.
Track at the host whether EL2 holds a protected vCPU powered off and
return -EPERM for both writes in that state. STOPPED stays permitted,
so a VMM can pause a vCPU, and RUNNABLE on a vCPU EL2 has powered on,
so it can resume one.
The guest's CPU_ON is gated on the same record rather than on STOPPED.
A VMM that sets STOPPED between the target's CPU_OFF exit and the
host's power-off of it would otherwise let the CPU_ON through, and the
power-off would then record the target powered off while EL2 holds it
ON_PENDING, with no way back before VM teardown. Gated on the record,
that CPU_ON returns ALREADY_ON and the retry succeeds once the
power-off has run.
Signed-off-by: Fuad Tabba <fuad.tabba@linux.dev>
---
arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 2 ++
arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
arch/arm64/kvm/pkvm.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++----
arch/arm64/kvm/psci.c | 10 +++++++++-
4 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
index 37d0721d39a45..2e2c051dd8e62 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
@@ -922,6 +922,8 @@ struct kvm_vcpu_arch {
/* vcpu power state */
struct kvm_mp_state mp_state;
spinlock_t mp_state_lock;
+ /* EL2 holds the protected vCPU powered off. Under mp_state_lock. */
+ bool pkvm_powered_off;
/* Cache some mmu pages needed inside spinlock regions */
struct kvm_mmu_memory_cache mmu_page_cache;
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c
index 0362f5f235e02..3892223252643 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c
@@ -777,9 +777,12 @@ static void __kvm_arm_vcpu_power_off(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
kvm_vcpu_kick(vcpu);
}
+/* The guest's own CPU_OFF: EL2 has already powered the vCPU off. */
void kvm_arm_vcpu_power_off(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
{
spin_lock(&vcpu->arch.mp_state_lock);
+ if (vcpu_is_protected(vcpu))
+ vcpu->arch.pkvm_powered_off = true;
__kvm_arm_vcpu_power_off(vcpu);
spin_unlock(&vcpu->arch.mp_state_lock);
}
@@ -801,6 +804,12 @@ static bool kvm_arm_vcpu_suspended(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
return READ_ONCE(vcpu->arch.mp_state.mp_state) == KVM_MP_STATE_SUSPENDED;
}
+/* Only the guest's CPU_ON may start a vCPU EL2 holds powered off. */
+static bool kvm_pkvm_vcpu_is_powered_off(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
+{
+ return vcpu_is_protected(vcpu) && vcpu->arch.pkvm_powered_off;
+}
+
int kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_get_mpstate(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
struct kvm_mp_state *mp_state)
{
@@ -818,12 +827,22 @@ int kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_set_mpstate(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
switch (mp_state->mp_state) {
case KVM_MP_STATE_RUNNABLE:
+ if (kvm_pkvm_vcpu_is_powered_off(vcpu)) {
+ ret = -EPERM;
+ break;
+ }
+
WRITE_ONCE(vcpu->arch.mp_state, *mp_state);
break;
case KVM_MP_STATE_STOPPED:
__kvm_arm_vcpu_power_off(vcpu);
break;
case KVM_MP_STATE_SUSPENDED:
+ if (kvm_pkvm_vcpu_is_powered_off(vcpu)) {
+ ret = -EPERM;
+ break;
+ }
+
kvm_arm_vcpu_suspend(vcpu);
break;
default:
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/pkvm.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/pkvm.c
index 8e4c6e4bec123..388c89f637b85 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/pkvm.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/pkvm.c
@@ -118,12 +118,25 @@ static int __pkvm_create_hyp_vcpu(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
return -ENOMEM;
ret = kvm_call_hyp_nvhe(__pkvm_init_vcpu, handle, vcpu, hyp_vcpu);
- if (!ret)
- vcpu_set_flag(vcpu, VCPU_PKVM_FINALIZED);
- else
+ if (ret) {
free_pages_exact(hyp_vcpu, hyp_vcpu_sz);
+ return ret;
+ }
- return ret;
+ /*
+ * Mirror EL2's seeding of power_state from mp_state. The hyp vCPU is
+ * published, so take mp_state_lock against kvm_psci_vcpu_on().
+ */
+ if (vcpu_is_protected(vcpu)) {
+ spin_lock(&vcpu->arch.mp_state_lock);
+ if (kvm_arm_vcpu_stopped(vcpu))
+ vcpu->arch.pkvm_powered_off = true;
+ spin_unlock(&vcpu->arch.mp_state_lock);
+ }
+
+ vcpu_set_flag(vcpu, VCPU_PKVM_FINALIZED);
+
+ return 0;
}
/*
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/psci.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/psci.c
index e3db84400d1f8..3796fcfd701e9 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/psci.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/psci.c
@@ -63,7 +63,12 @@ static unsigned long kvm_psci_vcpu_on(struct kvm_vcpu *source_vcpu)
return PSCI_RET_INVALID_PARAMS;
spin_lock(&vcpu->arch.mp_state_lock);
- if (!kvm_arm_vcpu_stopped(vcpu)) {
+ /*
+ * A protected vCPU is off once the host has acted on EL2's CPU_OFF.
+ * STOPPED before that is the VMM's pause.
+ */
+ if (!kvm_arm_vcpu_stopped(vcpu) ||
+ (vcpu_is_protected(vcpu) && !vcpu->arch.pkvm_powered_off)) {
if (kvm_psci_version(source_vcpu) != KVM_ARM_PSCI_0_1)
ret = PSCI_RET_ALREADY_ON;
else
@@ -94,6 +99,9 @@ static unsigned long kvm_psci_vcpu_on(struct kvm_vcpu *source_vcpu)
*/
smp_wmb();
+ /* EL2 has committed the protected vCPU to ON_PENDING to get here. */
+ vcpu->arch.pkvm_powered_off = false;
+
WRITE_ONCE(vcpu->arch.mp_state.mp_state, KVM_MP_STATE_RUNNABLE);
kvm_vcpu_wake_up(vcpu);
--
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@ 2026-09-14 11:33 ` Fuad Tabba
2026-09-14 11:33 ` [PATCH v3 18/18] KVM: arm64: Document the protected VM userspace API Fuad Tabba
17 siblings, 0 replies; 21+ messages in thread
From: Fuad Tabba @ 2026-09-14 11:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: maz, oupton, kvmarm, linux-arm-kernel, linux-kernel
Cc: catalin.marinas, will, joey.gouly, seiden, suzuki.poulose,
yuzenghui, mark.rutland, steven.price, vdonnefort, qperret,
tabba
For a protected VM, kvm_pkvm_ext_allowed() returns false on every
capability it doesn't name, so KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION returns 0 for
interfaces the VM implements: it denies KVM_CAP_ONE_REG while
KVM_{GET,SET}_ONE_REG stage the guest's boot state.
Allow the capabilities that work for a protected guest under the
restrictions the preceding patches add, the vGIC and the I/O bus being
host-managed.
Signed-off-by: Fuad Tabba <fuad.tabba@linux.dev>
---
arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pkvm.h | 9 +++++++++
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pkvm.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pkvm.h
index fbea052fa3e16..a165af0d75689 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pkvm.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pkvm.h
@@ -42,6 +42,15 @@ static inline bool kvm_pkvm_ext_allowed(struct kvm *kvm, long ext)
case KVM_CAP_ARM_VM_IPA_SIZE:
case KVM_CAP_ARM_PTRAUTH_ADDRESS:
case KVM_CAP_ARM_PTRAUTH_GENERIC:
+ case KVM_CAP_ONE_REG:
+ case KVM_CAP_MP_STATE:
+ case KVM_CAP_VCPU_EVENTS:
+ case KVM_CAP_VCPU_ATTRIBUTES:
+ case KVM_CAP_IMMEDIATE_EXIT:
+ case KVM_CAP_IOEVENTFD:
+ case KVM_CAP_IRQFD_RESAMPLE:
+ case KVM_CAP_ARM_IRQ_LINE_LAYOUT_2:
+ case KVM_CAP_ARM_INJECT_SERROR_ESR:
return true;
case KVM_CAP_ARM_MTE:
return false;
--
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@ 2026-09-14 11:33 ` Fuad Tabba
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From: Fuad Tabba @ 2026-09-14 11:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: maz, oupton, kvmarm, linux-arm-kernel, linux-kernel
Cc: catalin.marinas, will, joey.gouly, seiden, suzuki.poulose,
yuzenghui, mark.rutland, steven.price, vdonnefort, qperret,
tabba
EL2 owns a protected vCPU's state once it has run, and the ioctls that
would access it fail rather than silently operate on a copy that isn't
the guest's. Describe the resulting API in pkvm.rst, point api.rst at
it from each ioctl that behaves differently, and say beside the PVTIME
attribute in devices/vcpu.rst and the PSCI version register in
fw-pseudo-registers.rst how protected VMs differ. The overview also
states the GIC support pKVM enforces: GICv2 is not supported in
protected mode (vgic-v2.c) and GICv5-based guests aren't registered
under pKVM (vgic-v5.c).
Signed-off-by: Fuad Tabba <fuad.tabba@linux.dev>
---
Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst | 22 ++-
.../virt/kvm/arm/fw-pseudo-registers.rst | 2 +
Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/pkvm.rst | 161 +++++++++++++++++-
Documentation/virt/kvm/devices/vcpu.rst | 3 +-
4 files changed, 178 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst
index e0430cc750c9e..212ac2aa5c6bd 100644
--- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst
+++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst
@@ -1322,6 +1322,9 @@ guests, across different userspace implementations. Nevertheless, userspace
can still emulate all Arm exceptions by manipulating individual registers
using the KVM_SET_ONE_REG API.
+For a protected VM, setting ext_dabt_pending returns -EPERM; see
+Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/pkvm.rst. Injecting an SError is unaffected.
+
See KVM_GET_VCPU_EVENTS for the data structure.
Calling this ioctl on a vCPU that hasn't been initialized will return
@@ -1624,6 +1627,11 @@ For arm64/riscv:
The only states that are valid are KVM_MP_STATE_STOPPED and
KVM_MP_STATE_RUNNABLE which reflect if the vcpu should be paused or not.
+On arm64, once a protected VM's vcpu has run, KVM_MP_STATE_RUNNABLE and
+KVM_MP_STATE_SUSPENDED return -EPERM if the guest has powered it off with
+CPU_OFF or has not yet brought it online with CPU_ON: only the guest can
+power it on. See Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/pkvm.rst.
+
On LoongArch, only the KVM_MP_STATE_RUNNABLE state is used to reflect
whether the vcpu is runnable.
@@ -2324,7 +2332,8 @@ Errors:
ENOENT no such register
EINVAL invalid register ID, or no such register or used with VMs in
protected virtualization mode on s390
- EPERM (arm64) register access not allowed before vcpu finalization
+ EPERM (arm64) register access not allowed before vcpu
+ finalization, or after a protected VM's vcpu has run
EBUSY (riscv) changing register value not allowed after the vcpu
has run at least once
====== ============================================================
@@ -2949,7 +2958,8 @@ Errors include:
ENOENT no such register
EINVAL invalid register ID, or no such register or used with VMs in
protected virtualization mode on s390
- EPERM (arm64) register access not allowed before vcpu finalization
+ EPERM (arm64) register access not allowed before vcpu
+ finalization, or after a protected VM's vcpu has run
======== ============================================================
(These error codes are indicative only: do not rely on a specific error
@@ -3484,6 +3494,7 @@ Errors:
====== =================================================================
EINVAL the target is unknown, or the combination of features is invalid.
ENOENT a features bit specified is unknown.
+ EPERM the vcpu belongs to a protected VM and has already run.
====== =================================================================
This tells KVM what type of CPU to present to the guest, and what
@@ -3512,6 +3523,10 @@ after the vcpu has been run. This will reset the vcpu to its initial
state. All calls to this function after the initial call must use the same
target and same set of feature flags, otherwise EINVAL will be returned.
+For a protected VM this ioctl returns EPERM once the vcpu has run, and the
+features it accepts are restricted: KVM_ARM_VCPU_PSCI_0_2 is required. See
+Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/pkvm.rst.
+
Possible features:
- KVM_ARM_VCPU_POWER_OFF: Starts the CPU in a power-off state.
@@ -3790,6 +3805,9 @@ can be determined by querying the KVM_CAP_GUEST_DEBUG_HW_BPS and
KVM_CAP_GUEST_DEBUG_HW_WPS capabilities which return a positive number
indicating the number of supported registers.
+On arm64, this ioctl returns -EPERM for a protected VM: debugging a
+protected guest is not supported. See Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/pkvm.rst.
+
For ppc, the KVM_CAP_PPC_GUEST_DEBUG_SSTEP capability indicates whether
the single-step debug event (KVM_GUESTDBG_SINGLESTEP) is supported.
diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/fw-pseudo-registers.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/fw-pseudo-registers.rst
index d78b53b05dfcf..c07471e258ea2 100644
--- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/fw-pseudo-registers.rst
+++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/fw-pseudo-registers.rst
@@ -33,6 +33,8 @@ The following registers are defined:
highest PSCI version implemented by KVM and compatible with v0.2)
- Allows any PSCI version implemented by KVM and compatible with
v0.2 to be set with SET_ONE_REG
+ - Returns -EINVAL for a version below v1.1 on a protected VM (see
+ Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/pkvm.rst)
- Affects the whole VM (even if the register view is per-vcpu)
* KVM_REG_ARM_SMCCC_ARCH_WORKAROUND_1:
diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/pkvm.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/pkvm.rst
index 514992a79a833..44f7c2126b787 100644
--- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/pkvm.rst
+++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/pkvm.rst
@@ -15,7 +15,9 @@ Overview
Booting a host kernel with '``kvm-arm.mode=protected``' enables
"Protected KVM" (pKVM). During boot, pKVM installs a stage-2 identity
map page-table for the host and uses it to isolate the hypervisor
-running at EL2 from the rest of the host running at EL1/0.
+running at EL2 from the rest of the host running at EL1/0. pKVM supports
+GICv3 only: GICv2 is not supported in protected mode, and neither are
+GICv5-based guests.
pKVM permits creation of protected virtual machines (pVMs) by passing
the ``KVM_VM_TYPE_ARM_PROTECTED`` machine type identifier to the
@@ -31,7 +33,7 @@ See hypercalls.rst for more details.
Isolation mechanisms
====================
-pKVM relies on a number of mechanisms to isolate PVMs from the host:
+pKVM relies on a number of mechanisms to isolate pVMs from the host:
CPU memory isolation
--------------------
@@ -50,8 +52,9 @@ stage-2 identity map as part of the donation procedure. This gives rise
to some user-visible differences when compared to non-protected VMs,
largely due to the lack of MMU notifiers:
-* Memslots cannot be moved or deleted once the pVM has started running.
-* Read-only memslots and dirty logging are not supported.
+* Memslots cannot be moved or deleted once the pVM has started running
+ (``-EPERM``).
+* Read-only memslots and dirty logging are not supported (``-EPERM``).
* With the exception of swap, file-backed pages cannot be mapped into a
pVM.
* Donated pages are accounted against ``RLIMIT_MLOCK`` and so the VMM
@@ -67,12 +70,19 @@ largely due to the lack of MMU notifiers:
then it will either return ``-EFAULT`` or forcefully reclaim the
memory pages. Reclaimed memory is zeroed by the hypervisor and a
subsequent attempt to access it in the pVM will return ``-EFAULT``
- from the ``VCPU_RUN`` ioctl().
+ from the ``KVM_RUN`` ioctl().
CPU state isolation
-------------------
-Status: **Unimplemented.**
+Status: CPU register state of protected vCPUs is managed entirely at EL2.
+
+pKVM performs the complete context switch for protected vCPUs within the
+hypervisor. The hypervisor sets a protected vCPU's initial state, not the
+host, and only what each exit needs is synchronised back.
+
+The user-visible consequences are described under `API behaviour for
+protected VMs`_.
DMA isolation using an IOMMU
----------------------------
@@ -89,13 +99,150 @@ The FF-A proxy ensures that the host cannot share pVM or hypervisor
memory with Trustzone as part of a "confused deputy" attack.
The PSCI proxy ensures that CPUs always have the stage-2 identity map
-installed when they are executing in the host.
+installed when they are executing in the host. This proxy is distinct
+from the PSCI handling provided to protected guests, which is described
+under `API behaviour for protected VMs`_.
Protected VM firmware (pvmfw)
-----------------------------
Status: **Unimplemented.**
+API behaviour for protected VMs
+===============================
+
+Protected vCPU state is owned by EL2 (see `CPU state isolation`_). The VMM
+configures a vCPU before its first ``KVM_RUN``; afterwards the state is
+private to the guest and the ioctls that access it return ``-EPERM``. The
+vCPU ioctls' errors follow one rule: ``-EPERM`` means the host asked for
+state that the guest owns, ``-EINVAL`` means the request is not valid for a
+protected VM, and a feature pKVM doesn't support for protected VMs is
+rejected the way KVM rejects one that isn't implemented (``-ENXIO`` from
+``KVM_ARM_VCPU_PVTIME_CTRL``, for example). The ioctls themselves are
+described in Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst.
+
+Boot
+----
+
+A protected VM boots from a single primary vCPU. Before the first
+``KVM_RUN``, the VMM prepares the boot state:
+
+* Set ``KVM_MP_STATE_RUNNABLE`` on the primary vCPU and
+ ``KVM_MP_STATE_STOPPED`` on every other vCPU. EL2 allows only one
+ RUNNABLE primary per protected VM. A second RUNNABLE vCPU fails at its
+ first ``KVM_RUN``.
+* Set the primary vCPU's boot state with ``KVM_SET_ONE_REG``: the kernel
+ entry address in ``PC`` and the DTB pointer in ``x0``.
+
+``PC`` and ``x0`` are the only registers EL2 takes from the host. Other
+pre-run writes are accepted, but the guest starts from the state the
+hypervisor resets it to.
+
+Secondary vCPUs are started by the guest itself through PSCI ``CPU_ON``
+(see `Power state`_), which supplies their entry point and context ID.
+The VMM cannot choose where they boot.
+
+vCPU state
+----------
+
+* ``KVM_GET_ONE_REG`` and ``KVM_SET_ONE_REG`` return ``-EPERM`` once the
+ vCPU has run. Before that, they access the host-side copy from which
+ EL2 builds the guest's boot state (see `Boot`_).
+* ``KVM_ARM_VCPU_INIT`` accepts only the vCPU features that a protected
+ guest supports and returns ``-EINVAL`` otherwise.
+ ``KVM_ARM_VCPU_PSCI_0_2`` is required, as EL2 implements PSCI 1.1 for
+ the guest (see `Power state`_). ``KVM_ARM_VCPU_EL1_32BIT`` is not
+ supported: protected guests run in AArch64 only and see no AArch32
+ support in ``ID_AA64PFR0_EL1``. Once the vCPU has run,
+ ``KVM_ARM_VCPU_INIT`` returns ``-EPERM``, as re-initialising it would
+ reset the host-side copy alone.
+* ``KVM_SET_VCPU_EVENTS`` returns ``-EPERM`` for external-abort injection
+ (``ext_dabt_pending``), and ``KVM_CAP_ARM_INJECT_EXT_DABT`` is not
+ advertised to a protected VM. SError injection is unaffected.
+* ``KVM_SET_GUEST_DEBUG`` returns ``-EPERM``, and ``KVM_CAP_SET_GUEST_DEBUG``
+ is not advertised to a protected VM (see `Debug`_).
+
+Power state
+-----------
+
+EL2 implements PSCI 1.1 for a protected guest. The calls that move a
+vCPU's power state, ``CPU_ON`` and ``CPU_OFF``, are handled at EL2, and
+the host cannot change the outcome: for ``CPU_ON`` the host only
+schedules the target, which EL2 has already reset to the entry point
+the guest chose, and for ``CPU_OFF`` it only stops scheduling it.
+``AFFINITY_INFO`` is handled by the host, which returns ``OFF`` once
+it has stopped scheduling every vCPU the query covers, as for a
+non-protected VM. A vCPU becomes a valid ``CPU_ON`` target at its first
+``KVM_RUN``, and before that EL2 returns ``INVALID_PARAMETERS``. The
+platform calls, ``CPU_SUSPEND``, ``SYSTEM_OFF``, ``SYSTEM_RESET`` and
+``SYSTEM_RESET2``, are forwarded to the host and behave as for a
+non-protected VM, with the ``SYSTEM_*`` calls exiting to the VMM as
+``KVM_EXIT_SYSTEM_EVENT``; the ``SYSTEM_RESET2`` reset type and cookie
+are in the guest's registers, which ``KVM_GET_ONE_REG`` rejects once
+the vCPU has run. Any other function returns ``NOT_SUPPORTED``, and
+``PSCI_FEATURES`` reports the same set. Because the host handles those
+forwarded calls, ``KVM_SET_ONE_REG`` on ``KVM_REG_ARM_PSCI_VERSION``
+returns ``-EINVAL`` for a version below 1.1.
+
+Once a vCPU has run, its power state follows the guest's PSCI calls, not
+the VMM's. ``KVM_SET_MP_STATE`` with ``KVM_MP_STATE_STOPPED`` still stops
+the vCPU, so the VMM can pause it. ``KVM_MP_STATE_RUNNABLE`` and
+``KVM_MP_STATE_SUSPENDED`` return ``-EPERM`` for a vCPU that the guest has
+powered off with ``CPU_OFF``, or has not yet brought online with ``CPU_ON``:
+only an in-guest ``CPU_ON`` can power it on.
+
+Other interface differences
+---------------------------
+
+* ``KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION`` reports only the arm64 capabilities that pKVM
+ supports for protected guests, and ``KVM_ENABLE_CAP`` accepts only
+ those. Query them on the VM file descriptor: the system file descriptor
+ has no VM to filter against. The capabilities the generic KVM code
+ answers itself (``KVM_CAP_SYNC_MMU`` or ``KVM_CAP_DEVICE_CTRL``, for
+ example) are reported as for any VM, and don't mean the feature works
+ for a protected one. The filter does not cover every interface either:
+ device-fd configuration (for example the VGIC after
+ ``KVM_CREATE_DEVICE``) and vCPU attributes are unfiltered, so a feature
+ the filter excludes is rejected by the attribute itself.
+ ``KVM_ARM_VCPU_PVTIME_CTRL`` returns ``-ENXIO``, for example, as it does
+ where steal time isn't implemented.
+* The vGIC of a protected VM remains host-managed: device creation,
+ configuration and interrupt injection all work as they do for a
+ non-protected VM.
+* ``KVM_ARM_SET_COUNTER_OFFSET`` and ``KVM_ARM_GET_REG_WRITABLE_MASKS``
+ return ``-EINVAL``: their capabilities are not advertised to a protected
+ VM, whose counter offset and ID registers are set by EL2. A protected
+ guest sees the physical timebase.
+* A protected guest's first access to each page of memory exits to the
+ host, since the hypervisor cannot tell memory from a device before the
+ page is mapped. For a store, the host sees the value of the register
+ the syndrome names, clamped to the access width, and nothing else from
+ the register file. For a load, the register the syndrome names takes
+ the value the host returns, as for any emulated access.
+* A protected guest that uses a feature it was not given, or executes an
+ ``SMC``, takes an undefined instruction exception from the hypervisor;
+ the host is not involved.
+* Apart from PSCI, the hypervisor handles a protected guest's SMCCC
+ calls itself and does not involve the host. A function it does not
+ implement returns ``NOT_SUPPORTED``, and the host's SMCCC filter does
+ not apply: the VM device attribute ioctls (``KVM_ARM_VM_SMCCC_CTRL``)
+ return ``-EINVAL`` for a protected VM.
+* The hypervisor can decode a trapped guest access only from the CPU's
+ instruction syndrome, which is provided only for a load or store of a
+ single general-purpose register. An access without one (for example a
+ load/store pair or a SIMD/FP access) cannot be decoded. For a
+ non-protected VM it can exit to the VMM as ``KVM_EXIT_ARM_NISV``. For a
+ protected VM it cannot be emulated by the VMM, so the guest takes a
+ synchronous external abort instead.
+
+Debug
+-----
+
+Hardware-assisted debugging is not available to protected guests.
+``MDSCR_EL1``, ``OSLAR_EL1``, ``OSLSR_EL1``, ``OSDLR_EL1``, and breakpoint
+and watchpoint 0 are RAZ/WI; any other debug register access takes an
+undefined instruction exception.
+
Resources
=========
diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/devices/vcpu.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/devices/vcpu.rst
index deb5c51bc00c8..916407835acdf 100644
--- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/devices/vcpu.rst
+++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/devices/vcpu.rst
@@ -231,7 +231,8 @@ Returns:
Specifies the base address of the stolen time structure for this VCPU. The
base address must be 64 byte aligned and exist within a valid guest memory
region. See Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/pvtime.rst for more information
-including the layout of the stolen time structure.
+including the layout of the stolen time structure. Stolen time is not
+supported for protected VMs (see Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/pkvm.rst).
4. GROUP: KVM_VCPU_TSC_CTRL
===========================
--
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