[PATCH v4 09/18] KVM: arm64: Introduce __pkvm_vcpu_{load,put}()

Quentin Perret qperret at google.com
Wed Feb 5 01:57:54 PST 2025


On Tuesday 04 Feb 2025 at 14:32:19 (+0000), Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 03, 2025 at 03:19:03PM -0800, Oliver Upton wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 03, 2025 at 07:50:44PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> 
> > > Current mainline crashes when running the arch_timer_edge_cases selftest
> > > in pKVM mode on a LibreTech Le Potato board, with a bisection pointing
> > > at this change.  The system dies like this:
> > > 
> > > # selftests: kvm: arch_timer_edge_cases
> > > [  130.599140] kvm [4518]: nVHE hyp panic at: [<ffff800081102b58>] __kvm_nvhe___vgic_v3_restore_vmcr_aprs+0x8/0x84!
> 
> > Thanks, fix posted here [*], although as a consequence this machine will
> > stop running KVM in protected mode (which was never meant to work in the
> > first place).
> 
> Yeah, I wasn't clear if this was something that was intended to work or
> not - it's all in a constant state of flux.

FWIW a770ee80e662 ("KVM: arm64: pkvm: Disable GICv2 support") did try to
explicitly disable things, but was clearly incomplete...

Thanks guys for the report and the quick fix!
Quentin



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