[PATCH 0/5] KVM: arm64: GICv5 legacy (GCIE_LEGACY) NV enablement and cleanup
Marc Zyngier
maz at kernel.org
Wed Sep 17 09:42:21 PDT 2025
On Thu, 28 Aug 2025 10:59:41 +0000, Sascha Bischoff wrote:
> This series enables nested virtualization for GICv3-based VMs on GICv5
> hosts (w/ FEAT_GCIE_LEGACY) in KVM/arm64. In addition, it adds a CPU
> capability to track support for FEAT_GCIE_LEGACY across all CPUs.
>
> The series fixes ICC_SRE_EL2 access handling for GICv5 hosts (to match
> the updated bet1+ specification [1]), and extends nested
> virtualization support to vGICv3 guests running on compatible GICv5
> systems. With these changes, it becomes possible to run with
> kvm-arm.mode=nested, and these changes have been tested with three
> levels of nesting on simulated hardware (Arm FVP).
>
> [...]
Applied to next, thanks!
[1/5] KVM: arm64: Allow ICC_SRE_EL2 accesses on a GICv5 host
(no commit info)
[2/5] KVM: arm64: Enable nested for GICv5 host with FEAT_GCIE_LEGACY
commit: d5a012af348d4d84287267547eb8637b937545af
[3/5] arm64: cpucaps: Add GICv5 Legacy vCPU interface (GCIE_LEGACY) capability
commit: 7847f51189343b29a24ca7edafb60a9032d5acf8
[4/5] KVM: arm64: Use ARM64_HAS_GICV5_LEGACY for GICv5 probing
commit: 754e43b09561f59dd04e0b8aafe4f5c9a71a4d1f
[5/5] irqchip/gic-v5: Drop has_gcie_v3_compat from gic_kvm_info
commit: 5c5db9efe323dd0b0d7917dbe5b9c0999c95e79e
Cheers,
M.
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