[PATCH v9 18/30] KVM: arm64: Support SME priority registers

Mark Brown broonie at kernel.org
Tue Jan 13 11:08:29 PST 2026


On Mon, Jan 12, 2026 at 11:59:22AM +0000, Fuad Tabba wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Dec 2025 at 01:22, Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org> wrote:

> > +       /*
> > +        * We block SME priorities so SMPRIMAP_EL2 is RES0, however we
> > +        * do not have traps to block access so the guest might have
> > +        * updated the state, overwrite anything there.
> 
> nit: overwrite -> overwriting

> > +        */
> > +       __vcpu_assign_sys_reg(vcpu, SMPRIMAP_EL2, 0);
> >  }

My original is correct here - the action we are taking is that we will
overwrite the value.  To use overwriting we'd need something more like
"handle this by overwriting anything there".
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