[RFC PATCH v6 35/35] KVM: arm64: Allow the creation of a SPE enabled VM

Alexandru Elisei alexandru.elisei at arm.com
Fri Nov 14 08:07:16 PST 2025


Everything is in place, allow userspace to enable SPE for a virtual
machine.

Signed-off-by: Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei at arm.com>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 2 +-
 arch/arm64/kvm/Kconfig            | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
index b730401717b5..1c987274556e 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
 
 #define KVM_MAX_VCPUS VGIC_V3_MAX_CPUS
 
-#define KVM_VCPU_MAX_FEATURES 9
+#define KVM_VCPU_MAX_FEATURES 10
 #define KVM_VCPU_VALID_FEATURES	(BIT(KVM_VCPU_MAX_FEATURES) - 1)
 
 #define KVM_REQ_SLEEP \
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/kvm/Kconfig
index 31388b5b2655..f746df3c2c28 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/Kconfig
@@ -84,9 +84,9 @@ config PTDUMP_STAGE2_DEBUGFS
 	  If in doubt, say N.
 
 config KVM_ARM_SPE
-	bool
+	bool "Support SPE in guest"
 	depends on KVM && ARM_SPE_PMU=y
-	default n
+	default y
 	help
 	  Adds support for Statistical Profiling Extension (SPE) in virtual
 	  machines.
-- 
2.51.2




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