[PATCH v2 01/11] KVM: arm64: initialize HCRX_EL2

[Catalin Marinas]

On Tue, May 09, 2023 at 03:22:25PM +0100, Kristina Martsenko wrote:
> ARMv8.7/9.2 adds a new hypervisor configuration register HCRX_EL2.
> Initialize the register to a safe value (all fields 0), to be robust
> against firmware that has not initialized it. This is also needed to
> ensure that the register is reinitialized after a kexec by a future
> kernel.
> 
> In addition, move SMPME setup over to the new flags, as it would
> otherwise get overridden. It is safe to set the bit even if SME is not
> (uniformly) supported, as it will write to a RES0 bit (having no
> effect), and SME will be disabled by the cpufeature framework.
> (Similar to how e.g. the API bit is handled in HCR_HOST_NVHE_FLAGS.)

This looks fine to me but I may have lost track of the VHE/nVHE code
initialisation paths.

Marc/Oliver, are you ok with this patch (or this series in general)? I'd
like to merge it through the arm64 tree.

Thanks.

-- 
Catalin