[PATCH v11 26/40] KVM: arm64: Hide SME system registers from guests

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Wed Feb 23 07:32:56 PST 2022


On Mon, Feb 07, 2022 at 03:20:55PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> For the time being we do not support use of SME by KVM guests, support for
> this will be enabled in future. In order to prevent any side effects or
> side channels via the new system registers, including the EL0 read/write
> register TPIDR2, explicitly undefine all the system registers added by
> SME and mask out the SME bitfield in SYS_ID_AA64PFR1.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org>

Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>



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