[PATCH v4] RISC-V: KVM: Delegate illegal instruction fault to VS mode

Xu Lu luxu.kernel at bytedance.com
Mon Jul 14 02:45:54 PDT 2025


Delegate illegal instruction fault to VS mode by default to avoid such
exceptions being trapped to HS and redirected back to VS.

The delegation of illegal instruction fault is particularly important
to guest applications that use vector instructions frequently. In such
cases, an illegal instruction fault will be raised when guest user thread
uses vector instruction the first time and then guest kernel will enable
user thread to execute following vector instructions.

The fw pmu event counter remains undeleted so that guest can still query
illegal instruction events via sbi call. Guest will only see zero count
on illegal instruction faults and know 'firmware' has delegated it.

Signed-off-by: Xu Lu <luxu.kernel at bytedance.com>
---
 arch/riscv/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/kvm_host.h
index 85cfebc32e4cf..3f6b9270f366a 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/kvm_host.h
+++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/kvm_host.h
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@
 #define KVM_REQ_STEAL_UPDATE		KVM_ARCH_REQ(6)
 
 #define KVM_HEDELEG_DEFAULT		(BIT(EXC_INST_MISALIGNED) | \
+					 BIT(EXC_INST_ILLEGAL)     | \
 					 BIT(EXC_BREAKPOINT)      | \
 					 BIT(EXC_SYSCALL)         | \
 					 BIT(EXC_INST_PAGE_FAULT) | \
-- 
2.20.1




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