[RFC PATCH v6 07/35] HACK! KVM: arm64: Disable SPE virtualization if protected KVM is enabled

Alexandru Elisei alexandru.elisei at arm.com
Fri Nov 14 08:06:48 PST 2025


For RFC only.

Signed-off-by: Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei at arm.com>
---
 arch/arm64/kvm/spe.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/spe.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/spe.c
index cf902853750f..7e38f7d9075b 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/spe.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/spe.c
@@ -24,6 +24,10 @@ void kvm_host_spe_init(struct arm_spe_pmu *arm_spu)
 {
 	struct arm_spu_entry *entry;
 
+	/* TODO: pKVM support */
+	if (is_protected_kvm_enabled())
+		return;
+
 	guard(mutex)(&arm_spus_lock);
 
 	entry = kmalloc(sizeof(*entry), GFP_KERNEL);
-- 
2.51.2




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