[PATCH 4/7] KVM: arm64: Remove ad-hoc CPTR manipulation from fpsimd_sve_sync()

Mark Rutland mark.rutland at arm.com
Tue Jun 17 06:37:15 PDT 2025


There's no need for fpsimd_sve_sync() to write to CPTR/CPACR. All
relevant traps are always disabled earlier within __kvm_vcpu_run(), when
__deactivate_cptr_traps() configures CPTR/CPACR.

With irrelevant details elided, the flow is:

handle___kvm_vcpu_run(...)
{
	flush_hyp_vcpu(...) {
		fpsimd_sve_flush(...);
	}

	__kvm_vcpu_run(...) {
		__activate_traps(...) {
			__activate_cptr_traps(...);
		}

		do {
			__guest_enter(...);
		} while (...);

		__deactivate_traps(....) {
			__deactivate_cptr_traps(...);
		}
	}

	sync_hyp_vcpu(...) {
		fpsimd_sve_sync(...);
	}
}

Remove the unnecessary write to CPTR/CPACR. An ISB is still necessary,
so a comment is added to describe this requirement.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
Cc: Fuad Tabba <tabba at google.com>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz at kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org>
Cc: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton at linux.dev>
Cc: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
---
 arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-main.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-main.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-main.c
index e9198e56e784b..3206b2c07f82a 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-main.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp-main.c
@@ -69,7 +69,10 @@ static void fpsimd_sve_sync(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 	if (!guest_owns_fp_regs())
 		return;
 
-	cpacr_clear_set(0, CPACR_EL1_FPEN | CPACR_EL1_ZEN);
+	/*
+	 * Traps have been disabled by __deactivate_cptr_traps(), but there
+	 * hasn't necessarily been a context synchronization event yet.
+	 */
 	isb();
 
 	if (vcpu_has_sve(vcpu))
-- 
2.30.2




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