[PATCH v1 2/6] KVM: arm64: Set FnV for VCPU when FAR_EL2 is invalid
Jiaqi Yan
jiaqiyan at google.com
Mon May 5 09:14:08 PDT 2025
Certain microarchitectures (e.g. Neoverse V2) do not keep track of
the faulting address for a memory load that consumes poisoned data
and results in a synchronous external abort (SEA). This means the
faulting guest physical address is unavailable when KVM handles such
SEA in EL2, and FAR_EL2 just holds a garbage value.
In case VMM later asks KVM to synchronously inject a SEA into the
guest, KVM should set FnV bit
- in VCPU's ESR_EL1 to let guest kernel know that FAR_EL1 is invalid
and holds garbage value
- in VCPU's ESR_EL2 to let nested virtualization know that FAR_EL2
is invalid and holds garbage value
Signed-off-by: Jiaqi Yan <jiaqiyan at google.com>
---
arch/arm64/kvm/inject_fault.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/inject_fault.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/inject_fault.c
index a640e839848e6..b4f9a09952ead 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/inject_fault.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/inject_fault.c
@@ -81,6 +81,9 @@ static void inject_abt64(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, bool is_iabt, unsigned long addr
if (!is_iabt)
esr |= ESR_ELx_EC_DABT_LOW << ESR_ELx_EC_SHIFT;
+ if (!kvm_vcpu_sea_far_valid(vcpu))
+ esr |= ESR_ELx_FnV;
+
esr |= ESR_ELx_FSC_EXTABT;
if (match_target_el(vcpu, unpack_vcpu_flag(EXCEPT_AA64_EL1_SYNC))) {
--
2.49.0.967.g6a0df3ecc3-goog
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