[PATCH v3 0/2] KVM: arm64: make EL2 feature fields writable in ID_AA64MMFR1_EL1

Marc Zyngier maz at kernel.org
Fri Sep 19 06:15:15 PDT 2025


On Thu, 11 Sep 2025 19:46:19 +0800, Jinqian Yang wrote:
> Allow userspace to downgrade EL2 features (TWED, HCX) to ensure VM live
> migration compatibility between hosts with varying feature support.
> 
> Although ID_AA64MMFR1_EL1.VH is an EL2 feature, it is still kept as non-
> writable in userspace. When FEAT_E2H0 is not implemented, HCR_EL2.E2H is
> res1. When E2H=1, EL2 operates in VHE mode. In this case, if userspace
> modifies the VH bit to 0, the Guest's kernel will still run in vEL2, leading
> to inconsistency.
> 
> [...]

Applied to next, thanks!

[1/2] KVM: arm64: Make ID_AA64MMFR1_EL1.{HCX, TWED} writable from userspace
      commit: 1a0b2bf6ff11d2e0438f3a7d1d299339edab96e8
[2/2] KVM: arm64: selftests: Test writes to ID_AA64MMFR1_EL1.{HCX, TWED}
      commit: be8c9192eaeee21fdaacd72ad4ba992b9e42377b

Cheers,

	M.
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