[PATCH 1/6] arm64: cpufeature: add FEAT_LSUI
Marc Zyngier
maz at kernel.org
Wed Jun 11 08:16:10 PDT 2025
On Wed, 11 Jun 2025 11:49:11 +0100,
Yeoreum Yun <yeoreum.yun at arm.com> wrote:
>
> Since Armv9.6, FEAT_LSUI supplies load/store instructions
> for privileged level to access user memory without clearing PSTATE.PAN bit.
>
> Add LSUI feature so that the unprevilieged load/store instrcutions
nit: instructions
> could be used when kernel accesses user memory without clearing PSTATE.PAN bit.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yeoreum Yun <yeoreum.yun at arm.com>
> ---
> arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c | 8 ++++++++
> arch/arm64/tools/cpucaps | 1 +
> 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
> index b34044e20128..d914982c7cee 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
> @@ -278,6 +278,7 @@ static const struct arm64_ftr_bits ftr_id_aa64isar2[] = {
>
> static const struct arm64_ftr_bits ftr_id_aa64isar3[] = {
> ARM64_FTR_BITS(FTR_VISIBLE, FTR_NONSTRICT, FTR_LOWER_SAFE, ID_AA64ISAR3_EL1_FPRCVT_SHIFT, 4, 0),
> + ARM64_FTR_BITS(FTR_HIDDEN, FTR_NONSTRICT, FTR_LOWER_SAFE, ID_AA64ISAR3_EL1_LSUI_SHIFT, 4, ID_AA64ISAR3_EL1_LSUI_NI),
> ARM64_FTR_BITS(FTR_VISIBLE, FTR_NONSTRICT, FTR_LOWER_SAFE, ID_AA64ISAR3_EL1_FAMINMAX_SHIFT, 4, 0),
> ARM64_FTR_END,
> };
Please enable the equivalent bits in KVM so that the feature can be
exposed to a guest.
Thanks,
M.
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