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Commit 5053c3f0 authored by Will Deacon's avatar Will Deacon Committed by Marc Zyngier
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KVM: arm64: Use hVHE in pKVM by default on CPUs with VHE support

The early command line parsing treats "kvm-arm.mode=protected" as an
alias for "id_aa64mmfr1.vh=0", forcing the use of nVHE so that the host
kernel runs at EL1 with the pKVM hypervisor at EL2.

With the introduction of hVHE support in ad744e8c ("arm64: Allow
arm64_sw.hvhe on command line"), the hypervisor can run using the EL2+0
translation regime. This is interesting for unusual CPUs that have VH
stuck to 1, but also because it opens the possibility of a hypervisor
"userspace" in the distant future which could be used to isolate vCPU
contexts in the hypervisor (see Marc's talk from KVM Forum 2022 [1]).

Repaint the "kvm-arm.mode=protected" alias to map to "arm64_sw.hvhe=1",
which will use hVHE on CPUs that support it and remain with nVHE
otherwise.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1F_Mf2j9eIo



Signed-off-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Acked-by: default avatarOliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240501163400.15838-3-will@kernel.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarMarc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
parent 3c142f9d
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