[RFC PATCH v6 08/35] HACK! KVM: arm64: Enable SPE virtualization only in VHE mode

Alexandru Elisei alexandru.elisei at arm.com
Fri Nov 14 08:06:49 PST 2025


For RFC only.

Signed-off-by: Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei at arm.com>
---
 arch/arm64/kvm/spe.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/spe.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/spe.c
index 7e38f7d9075b..101258b55053 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/spe.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/spe.c
@@ -24,8 +24,8 @@ void kvm_host_spe_init(struct arm_spe_pmu *arm_spu)
 {
 	struct arm_spu_entry *entry;
 
-	/* TODO: pKVM support */
-	if (is_protected_kvm_enabled())
+	/* TODO: pKVM and nVHE support */
+	if (is_protected_kvm_enabled() || !has_vhe())
 		return;
 
 	guard(mutex)(&arm_spus_lock);
-- 
2.51.2




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