[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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