[PATCH] KVM: arm64: Fix kvm_vcpu_{set,is}_be() to deal with EL2 state

Marc Zyngier maz at kernel.org
Tue Sep 16 09:11:03 PDT 2025


Nobody really cares about BE, but KVM currently only deals with
SCTLR_EL1 when evaluating or setting the endianness in PSCI,
meaning that we evaluate whatever the L2 state has been at some point.

Teach these primitives about SCTLR_EL2, and forget about BE...

Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz at kernel.org>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_emulate.h | 20 ++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_emulate.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_emulate.h
index fa8a08a1ccd5c..85f998dffea5d 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_emulate.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_emulate.h
@@ -511,21 +511,29 @@ static inline void kvm_vcpu_set_be(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 	if (vcpu_mode_is_32bit(vcpu)) {
 		*vcpu_cpsr(vcpu) |= PSR_AA32_E_BIT;
 	} else {
-		u64 sctlr = vcpu_read_sys_reg(vcpu, SCTLR_EL1);
+		enum vcpu_sysreg r;
+		u64 sctlr;
+
+		r = vcpu_has_nv(vcpu) ? SCTLR_EL2 : SCTLR_EL1;
+
+		sctlr = vcpu_read_sys_reg(vcpu, r);
 		sctlr |= SCTLR_ELx_EE;
-		vcpu_write_sys_reg(vcpu, sctlr, SCTLR_EL1);
+		vcpu_write_sys_reg(vcpu, sctlr, r);
 	}
 }
 
 static inline bool kvm_vcpu_is_be(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 {
+	enum vcpu_sysreg r;
+	u64 bit;
+
 	if (vcpu_mode_is_32bit(vcpu))
 		return !!(*vcpu_cpsr(vcpu) & PSR_AA32_E_BIT);
 
-	if (vcpu_mode_priv(vcpu))
-		return !!(vcpu_read_sys_reg(vcpu, SCTLR_EL1) & SCTLR_ELx_EE);
-	else
-		return !!(vcpu_read_sys_reg(vcpu, SCTLR_EL1) & SCTLR_EL1_E0E);
+	r = is_hyp_ctxt(vcpu) ? SCTLR_EL2 : SCTLR_EL1;
+	bit = vcpu_mode_priv(vcpu) ? SCTLR_ELx_EE : SCTLR_EL1_E0E;
+
+	return vcpu_read_sys_reg(vcpu, r) & bit;
 }
 
 static inline unsigned long vcpu_data_guest_to_host(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
-- 
2.39.2




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