[PATCH v2] KVM: arm64: Guard PMSCR_EL1 initialization with SPE presence check

Marc Zyngier maz at kernel.org
Mon Oct 13 09:56:03 PDT 2025


On Fri, 10 Oct 2025 23:17:07 +0530, Mukesh Ojha wrote:
> Commit efad60e46057 ("KVM: arm64: Initialize PMSCR_EL1 when in VHE")
> does not perform sufficient check before initializing PMSCR_EL1 to 0
> when running in VHE mode. On some platforms, this causes the system to
> hang during boot, as EL3 has not delegated access to the Profiling
> Buffer to the Non-secure world, nor does it reinject an UNDEF on sysreg
> trap.
> 
> [...]

Applied to fixes, thanks!

[1/1] KVM: arm64: Guard PMSCR_EL1 initialization with SPE presence check
      commit: c35dd838666d47de2848639234ec32e3ba22b49f

Cheers,

	M.
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