[PATCH v4 0/4] KVM: arm64: Fix underallocation of storage for SVE state

[Fuad Tabba]

On Fri, 6 Sept 2024 at 17:10, Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org> wrote:
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> On Fri, Sep 06, 2024 at 04:35:29PM +0100, Fuad Tabba wrote:
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> > > > Can't pKVM just hide the non symmetrically supported VLs using ZCR_EL2,
> > > > just as regular KVM does for the guest?
>
> > > > (I may be making bad assumptions about pKVM's relationship with the host
> > > > kernel.)
>
> > > That's one for the pKVM people.
>
> > Yes, but that's not really the issue here, unless I'm missing
> > something else. The issue is that pKVM needs to store the host's SVE
> > state too, to be able to restore it. So hiding non-symmetrically
> > supported VLs for the guests shouldn't be relevant.
>
> If the host kernel is also running at EL1 and it's only the hypervisor
> running at EL2 then the hypervisor can control the VLs that the host
> kernel is able to access?

Yes it can. But do we want to impose limits on host VLs when running
pKVM that might not exist without pKVM?

Although AFAIK, such hardware doesn't exist in practice, the reason we
went down this rabbit hole from the beginning was to ensure that we
wouldn't run into problems if it were to happen.

Thanks,
/fuad