[PATCH v3 0/8] KVM: arm64: FPSIMD/SVE/SME fixes

[Oliver Upton]

On Mon, Feb 10, 2025 at 07:52:18PM +0000, Mark Rutland wrote:
> These patches fix some issues with the way KVM manages FPSIMD/SVE/SME
> state. The series supersedes my earlier attempt at fixing the host SVE
> state corruption issue:
> 
>   https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20250121100026.3974971-1-mark.rutland@arm.com/
> 
> Patch 1 addresses the host SVE state corruption issue by always saving
> and unbinding the host state when loading a vCPU, as discussed on the
> earlier patch:
> 
>   https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/Z4--YuG5SWrP_pW7@J2N7QTR9R3/
>   https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/86plkful48.wl-maz@kernel.org/
> 
> Patches 2 to 4 remove code made redundant by patch 1. These probably
> warrant backporting along with patch 1 as there is some historical
> brokenness in the code they remove.
> 
> Patches 5 to 7 are preparatory refactoring for patch 8, and are not
> intended to have any functional impact.
> 
> Patch 8 addresses some mismanagement of ZCR_EL{1,2} which can result in
> the host VMM unexpectedly receiving a SIGKILL. To fix this, we eagerly
> switch ZCR_EL{1,2} at guest<->host transitions, as discussed on another
> series:
> 
>   https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/Z4pAMaEYvdLpmbg2@J2N7QTR9R3/
>   https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/86o6zzukwr.wl-maz@kernel.org/
>   https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/Z5Dc-WMu2azhTuMn@J2N7QTR9R3/
> 
> The end result is that KVM loses ~100 lines of code, and becomes a bit
> simpler to reason about.

LGTM, although a minor nitpick would be to repack the host data flags at
the end of purging SVE/SME.

Reviewed-by: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton at linux.dev>

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Thanks,
Oliver