[PATCH v14 12/44] arm64: RMI: Check for LPA2 support

Steven Price steven.price at arm.com
Wed May 13 06:17:20 PDT 2026


If KVM has enabled LPA2 support then check that the RMM also supports
it. If there is a mismatch then disable support for realm guests as the
VMM may attempt to create a guest which is incompatible with the RMM.

Signed-off-by: Steven Price <steven.price at arm.com>
---
New patch for v13
---
 arch/arm64/kvm/rmi.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/rmi.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/rmi.c
index 1acc972a4b92..6e28b669ded2 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/rmi.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/rmi.c
@@ -5,9 +5,25 @@
 
 #include <linux/kvm_host.h>
 
+#include <asm/kvm_pgtable.h>
 #include <asm/rmi_cmds.h>
 #include <asm/virt.h>
 
+static bool rmi_has_feature(unsigned long feature)
+{
+	return !!u64_get_bits(rmm_feat_reg0, feature);
+}
+
+static int rmm_check_features(void)
+{
+	if (kvm_lpa2_is_enabled() && !rmi_has_feature(RMI_FEATURE_REGISTER_0_LPA2)) {
+		kvm_err("RMM doesn't support LPA2");
+		return -ENXIO;
+	}
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
 void kvm_init_rmi(void)
 {
 	/*
@@ -20,5 +36,8 @@ void kvm_init_rmi(void)
 	if (!rmi_is_available())
 		return;
 
+	if (rmm_check_features())
+		return;
+
 	/* Future patch will enable static branch kvm_rmi_is_available */
 }
-- 
2.43.0




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