kernel/linux.git/Documentation/arch/arm64, branch v6.18.22

Merge branch 'for-next/perf' into for-next/core

2025-09-24T15:34:52+00:00

* for-next/perf: (29 commits) perf/dwc_pcie: Fix use of uninitialized variable Documentation: hisi-pmu: Add introduction to HiSilicon V3 PMU Documentation: hisi-pmu: Fix of minor format error drivers/perf: hisi: Add support for L3C PMU v3 drivers/perf: hisi: Refactor the event configuration of L3C PMU drivers/perf: hisi: Extend the field of tt_core drivers/perf: hisi: Extract the event filter check of L3C PMU drivers/perf: hisi: Simplify the probe process of each L3C PMU version drivers/perf: hisi: Export hisi_uncore_pmu_isr() drivers/perf: hisi: Relax the event ID check in the framework perf: Fujitsu: Add the Uncore PMU driver perf/arm-cmn: Fix CMN S3 DTM offset perf: arm_spe: Prevent overflow in PERF_IDX2OFF() coresight: trbe: Prevent overflow in PERF_IDX2OFF() MAINTAINERS: Remove myself from HiSilicon PMU maintainers drivers/perf: hisi: Add support for HiSilicon MN PMU driver drivers/perf: hisi: Add support for HiSilicon NoC PMU perf: arm_pmuv3: Factor out PMCCNTR_EL0 use conditions arm64/boot: Enable EL2 requirements for SPE_FEAT_FDS arm64/boot: Factor out a macro to check SPE version ...

Merge branch 'for-next/docs' into for-next/core

2025-09-24T15:33:58+00:00

* for-next/docs: arm64/sme: Drop inaccurate documentation of streaming mode switches

arm64: errata: Apply workarounds for Neoverse-V3AE

2025-09-22T10:27:14+00:00

Neoverse-V3AE is also affected by erratum #3312417, as described in its Software Developer Errata Notice (SDEN) document: Neoverse V3AE (MP172) SDEN v9.0, erratum 3312417 https://developer.arm.com/documentation/SDEN-2615521/9-0/ Enable the workaround for Neoverse-V3AE, and document this. Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland Cc: James Morse Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Catalin Marinas Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts Signed-off-by: Will Deacon

arm64/boot: Enable EL2 requirements for SPE_FEAT_FDS

2025-09-18T13:17:02+00:00

SPE data source filtering (optional from Armv8.8) requires that traps to the filter register PMSDSFR be disabled. Document the requirements and disable the traps if the feature is present. Tested-by: Leo Yan Reviewed-by: Leo Yan Signed-off-by: James Clark Signed-off-by: Will Deacon

arm64/hwcap: Add hwcap for FEAT_LSFE

2025-09-16T18:55:11+00:00

FEAT_LSFE (Large System Float Extension), providing atomic floating point memory operations, is optional from v9.5. This feature adds no new architectural stare and we have no immediate use for it in the kernel so simply provide a hwcap for it to support discovery by userspace. Signed-off-by: Mark Brown Signed-off-by: Will Deacon

arm64/sme: Drop inaccurate documentation of streaming mode switches

2025-09-08T12:25:38+00:00

The SME ABI documentation contains an inaccurate description of the architectural streaming mode entry/exit behaviour, just remove it since this is better documented by the architecture or with the rest of the documentation for the specific software interfaces concerned. Signed-off-by: Mark Brown Signed-off-by: Will Deacon

Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm

2025-07-31T00:14:01+00:00

Pull kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini: "ARM: - Host driver for GICv5, the next generation interrupt controller for arm64, including support for interrupt routing, MSIs, interrupt translation and wired interrupts - Use FEAT_GCIE_LEGACY on GICv5 systems to virtualize GICv3 VMs on GICv5 hardware, leveraging the legacy VGIC interface - Userspace control of the 'nASSGIcap' GICv3 feature, allowing userspace to disable support for SGIs w/o an active state on hardware that previously advertised it unconditionally - Map supporting endpoints with cacheable memory attributes on systems with FEAT_S2FWB and DIC where KVM no longer needs to perform cache maintenance on the address range - Nested support for FEAT_RAS and FEAT_DoubleFault2, allowing the guest hypervisor to inject external aborts into an L2 VM and take traps of masked external aborts to the hypervisor - Convert more system register sanitization to the config-driven implementation - Fixes to the visibility of EL2 registers, namely making VGICv3 system registers accessible through the VGIC device instead of the ONE_REG vCPU ioctls - Various cleanups and minor fixes LoongArch: - Add stat information for in-kernel irqchip - Add tracepoints for CPUCFG and CSR emulation exits - Enhance in-kernel irqchip emulation - Various cleanups RISC-V: - Enable ring-based dirty memory tracking - Improve perf kvm stat to report interrupt events - Delegate illegal instruction trap to VS-mode - MMU improvements related to upcoming nested virtualization s390x - Fixes x86: - Add CONFIG_KVM_IOAPIC for x86 to allow disabling support for I/O APIC, PIC, and PIT emulation at compile time - Share device posted IRQ code between SVM and VMX and harden it against bugs and runtime errors - Use vcpu_idx, not vcpu_id, for GA log tag/metadata, to make lookups O(1) instead of O(n) - For MMIO stale data mitigation, track whether or not a vCPU has access to (host) MMIO based on whether the page tables have MMIO pfns mapped; using VFIO is prone to false negatives - Rework the MSR interception code so that the SVM and VMX APIs are more or less identical - Recalculate all MSR intercepts from scratch on MSR filter changes, instead of maintaining shadow bitmaps - Advertise support for LKGS (Load Kernel GS base), a new instruction that's loosely related to FRED, but is supported and enumerated independently - Fix a user-triggerable WARN that syzkaller found by setting the vCPU in INIT_RECEIVED state (aka wait-for-SIPI), and then putting the vCPU into VMX Root Mode (post-VMXON). Trying to detect every possible path leading to architecturally forbidden states is hard and even risks breaking userspace (if it goes from valid to valid state but passes through invalid states), so just wait until KVM_RUN to detect that the vCPU state isn't allowed - Add KVM_X86_DISABLE_EXITS_APERFMPERF to allow disabling interception of APERF/MPERF reads, so that a "properly" configured VM can access APERF/MPERF. This has many caveats (APERF/MPERF cannot be zeroed on vCPU creation or saved/restored on suspend and resume, or preserved over thread migration let alone VM migration) but can be useful whenever you're interested in letting Linux guests see the effective physical CPU frequency in /proc/cpuinfo - Reject KVM_SET_TSC_KHZ for vm file descriptors if vCPUs have been created, as there's no known use case for changing the default frequency for other VM types and it goes counter to the very reason why the ioctl was added to the vm file descriptor. And also, there would be no way to make it work for confidential VMs with a "secure" TSC, so kill two birds with one stone - Dynamically allocation the shadow MMU's hashed page list, and defer allocating the hashed list until it's actually needed (the TDP MMU doesn't use the list) - Extract many of KVM's helpers for accessing architectural local APIC state to common x86 so that they can be shared by guest-side code for Secure AVIC - Various cleanups and fixes x86 (Intel): - Preserve the host's DEBUGCTL.FREEZE_IN_SMM when running the guest. Failure to honor FREEZE_IN_SMM can leak host state into guests - Explicitly check vmcs12.GUEST_DEBUGCTL on nested VM-Enter to prevent L1 from running L2 with features that KVM doesn't support, e.g. BTF x86 (AMD): - WARN and reject loading kvm-amd.ko instead of panicking the kernel if the nested SVM MSRPM offsets tracker can't handle an MSR (which is pretty much a static condition and therefore should never happen, but still) - Fix a variety of flaws and bugs in the AVIC device posted IRQ code - Inhibit AVIC if a vCPU's ID is too big (relative to what hardware supports) instead of rejecting vCPU creation - Extend enable_ipiv module param support to SVM, by simply leaving IsRunning clear in the vCPU's physical ID table entry - Disable IPI virtualization, via enable_ipiv, if the CPU is affected by erratum #1235, to allow (safely) enabling AVIC on such CPUs - Request GA Log interrupts if and only if the target vCPU is blocking, i.e. only if KVM needs a notification in order to wake the vCPU - Intercept SPEC_CTRL on AMD if the MSR shouldn't exist according to the vCPU's CPUID model - Accept any SNP policy that is accepted by the firmware with respect to SMT and single-socket restrictions. An incompatible policy doesn't put the kernel at risk in any way, so there's no reason for KVM to care - Drop a superfluous WBINVD (on all CPUs!) when destroying a VM and use WBNOINVD instead of WBINVD when possible for SEV cache maintenance - When reclaiming memory from an SEV guest, only do cache flushes on CPUs that have ever run a vCPU for the guest, i.e. don't flush the caches for CPUs that can't possibly have cache lines with dirty, encrypted data Generic: - Rework irqbypass to track/match producers and consumers via an xarray instead of a linked list. Using a linked list leads to O(n^2) insertion times, which is hugely problematic for use cases that create large numbers of VMs. Such use cases typically don't actually use irqbypass, but eliminating the pointless registration is a future problem to solve as it likely requires new uAPI - Track irqbypass's "token" as "struct eventfd_ctx *" instead of a "void *", to avoid making a simple concept unnecessarily difficult to understand - Decouple device posted IRQs from VFIO device assignment, as binding a VM to a VFIO group is not a requirement for enabling device posted IRQs - Clean up and document/comment the irqfd assignment code - Disallow binding multiple irqfds to an eventfd with a priority waiter, i.e. ensure an eventfd is bound to at most one irqfd through the entire host, and add a selftest to verify eventfd:irqfd bindings are globally unique - Add a tracepoint for KVM_SET_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES to help debug issues related to private <=> shared memory conversions - Drop guest_memfd's .getattr() implementation as the VFS layer will call generic_fillattr() if inode_operations.getattr is NULL - Fix issues with dirty ring harvesting where KVM doesn't bound the processing of entries in any way, which allows userspace to keep KVM in a tight loop indefinitely - Kill off kvm_arch_{start,end}_assignment() and x86's associated tracking, now that KVM no longer uses assigned_device_count as a heuristic for either irqbypass usage or MDS mitigation Selftests: - Fix a comment typo - Verify KVM is loaded when getting any KVM module param so that attempting to run a selftest without kvm.ko loaded results in a SKIP message about KVM not being loaded/enabled (versus some random parameter not existing) - Skip tests that hit EACCES when attempting to access a file, and print a "Root required?" help message. In most cases, the test just needs to be run with elevated permissions" * tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (340 commits) Documentation: KVM: Use unordered list for pre-init VGIC registers RISC-V: KVM: Avoid re-acquiring memslot in kvm_riscv_gstage_map() RISC-V: KVM: Use find_vma_intersection() to search for intersecting VMAs RISC-V: perf/kvm: Add reporting of interrupt events RISC-V: KVM: Enable ring-based dirty memory tracking RISC-V: KVM: Fix inclusion of Smnpm in the guest ISA bitmap RISC-V: KVM: Delegate illegal instruction fault to VS mode RISC-V: KVM: Pass VMID as parameter to kvm_riscv_hfence_xyz() APIs RISC-V: KVM: Factor-out g-stage page table management RISC-V: KVM: Add vmid field to struct kvm_riscv_hfence RISC-V: KVM: Introduce struct kvm_gstage_mapping RISC-V: KVM: Factor-out MMU related declarations into separate headers RISC-V: KVM: Use ncsr_xyz() in kvm_riscv_vcpu_trap_redirect() RISC-V: KVM: Implement kvm_arch_flush_remote_tlbs_range() RISC-V: KVM: Don't flush TLB when PTE is unchanged RISC-V: KVM: Replace KVM_REQ_HFENCE_GVMA_VMID_ALL with KVM_REQ_TLB_FLUSH RISC-V: KVM: Rename and move kvm_riscv_local_tlb_sanitize() RISC-V: KVM: Drop the return value of kvm_riscv_vcpu_aia_init() RISC-V: KVM: Check kvm_riscv_vcpu_alloc_vector_context() return value KVM: arm64: selftests: Add FEAT_RAS EL2 registers to get-reg-list ...

Merge branch 'for-next/feat_mte_store_only' into for-next/core

2025-07-24T15:03:34+00:00

* for-next/feat_mte_store_only: : MTE feature to restrict tag checking to store only operations kselftest/arm64/mte: Add MTE_STORE_ONLY testcases kselftest/arm64/mte: Preparation for mte store only test kselftest/arm64/abi: Add MTE_STORE_ONLY feature hwcap test KVM: arm64: Expose MTE_STORE_ONLY feature to guest arm64/hwcaps: Add MTE_STORE_ONLY hwcaps arm64/kernel: Support store-only mte tag check prctl: Introduce PR_MTE_STORE_ONLY arm64/cpufeature: Add MTE_STORE_ONLY feature

Merge branches 'for-next/livepatch', 'for-next/user-contig-bbml2', 'for-next/misc', 'for-next/acpi', 'for-next/debug-entry', 'for-next/feat_mte_tagged_far', 'for-next/kselftest', 'for-next/mdscr-cleanup' and 'for-next/vmap-stack', remote-tracking branch 'arm64/for-next/perf' into for-next/core

2025-07-24T15:01:22+00:00

* arm64/for-next/perf: (23 commits) drivers/perf: hisi: Support PMUs with no interrupt drivers/perf: hisi: Relax the event number check of v2 PMUs drivers/perf: hisi: Add support for HiSilicon SLLC v3 PMU driver drivers/perf: hisi: Use ACPI driver_data to retrieve SLLC PMU information drivers/perf: hisi: Add support for HiSilicon DDRC v3 PMU driver drivers/perf: hisi: Simplify the probe process for each DDRC version perf/arm-ni: Support sharing IRQs within an NI instance perf/arm-ni: Consolidate CPU affinity handling perf/cxlpmu: Fix typos in cxl_pmu.c comments and documentation perf/cxlpmu: Remove unintended newline from IRQ name format string perf/cxlpmu: Fix devm_kcalloc() argument order in cxl_pmu_probe() perf: arm_spe: Relax period restriction perf: arm_pmuv3: Add support for the Branch Record Buffer Extension (BRBE) KVM: arm64: nvhe: Disable branch generation in nVHE guests arm64: Handle BRBE booting requirements arm64/sysreg: Add BRBE registers and fields perf/arm: Add missing .suppress_bind_attrs perf/arm-cmn: Reduce stack usage during discovery perf: imx9_perf: make the read-only array mask static const perf/arm-cmn: Broaden module description for wider interconnect support ... * for-next/livepatch: : Support for HAVE_LIVEPATCH on arm64 arm64: Kconfig: Keep selects somewhat alphabetically ordered arm64: Implement HAVE_LIVEPATCH arm64: stacktrace: Implement arch_stack_walk_reliable() arm64: stacktrace: Check kretprobe_find_ret_addr() return value arm64/module: Use text-poke API for late relocations. * for-next/user-contig-bbml2: : Optimise the TLBI when folding/unfolding contigous PTEs on hardware with BBML2 and no TLB conflict aborts arm64/mm: Elide tlbi in contpte_convert() under BBML2 iommu/arm: Add BBM Level 2 smmu feature arm64: Add BBM Level 2 cpu feature arm64: cpufeature: Introduce MATCH_ALL_EARLY_CPUS capability type * for-next/misc: : Miscellaneous arm64 patches arm64/gcs: task_gcs_el0_enable() should use passed task arm64: signal: Remove ISB when resetting POR_EL0 arm64/mm: Drop redundant addr increment in set_huge_pte_at() arm64: Mark kernel as tainted on SAE and SError panic arm64/gcs: Don't call gcs_free() when releasing task_struct arm64: fix unnecessary rebuilding when CONFIG_DEBUG_EFI=y arm64/mm: Optimize loop to reduce redundant operations of contpte_ptep_get arm64: pi: use 'targets' instead of extra-y in Makefile * for-next/acpi: : Various ACPI arm64 changes ACPI: Suppress misleading SPCR console message when SPCR table is absent ACPI: Return -ENODEV from acpi_parse_spcr() when SPCR support is disabled * for-next/debug-entry: : Simplify the debug exception entry path arm64: debug: remove debug exception registration infrastructure arm64: debug: split bkpt32 exception entry arm64: debug: split brk64 exception entry arm64: debug: split hardware watchpoint exception entry arm64: debug: split single stepping exception entry arm64: debug: refactor reinstall_suspended_bps() arm64: debug: split hardware breakpoint exception entry arm64: entry: Add entry and exit functions for debug exceptions arm64: debug: remove break/step handler registration infrastructure arm64: debug: call step handlers statically arm64: debug: call software breakpoint handlers statically arm64: refactor aarch32_break_handler() arm64: debug: clean up single_step_handler logic * for-next/feat_mte_tagged_far: : Support for reporting the non-address bits during a synchronous MTE tag check fault kselftest/arm64/mte: Add mtefar tests on check_mmap_options kselftest/arm64/mte: Refactor check_mmap_option test kselftest/arm64/mte: Add verification for address tag in signal handler kselftest/arm64/mte: Add address tag related macro and function kselftest/arm64/mte: Check MTE_FAR feature is supported kselftest/arm64/mte: Register mte signal handler with SA_EXPOSE_TAGBITS kselftest/arm64: Add MTE_FAR hwcap test KVM: arm64: Expose FEAT_MTE_TAGGED_FAR feature to guest arm64: Report address tag when FEAT_MTE_TAGGED_FAR is supported arm64/cpufeature: Add FEAT_MTE_TAGGED_FAR feature * for-next/kselftest: : Kselftest updates for arm64 kselftest/arm64: Handle attempts to disable SM on SME only systems kselftest/arm64: Fix SVE write data generation for SME only systems kselftest/arm64: Test SME on SME only systems in fp-ptrace kselftest/arm64: Test FPSIMD format data writes via NT_ARM_SVE in fp-ptrace kselftest/arm64: Allow sve-ptrace to run on SME only systems kselftest/arm4: Provide local defines for AT_HWCAP3 kselftest/arm64: Specify SVE data when testing VL set in sve-ptrace kselftest/arm64: Fix test for streaming FPSIMD write in sve-ptrace kselftest/arm64: Fix check for setting new VLs in sve-ptrace kselftest/arm64: Convert tpidr2 test to use kselftest.h * for-next/mdscr-cleanup: : Drop redundant DBG_MDSCR_* macros KVM: selftests: Change MDSCR_EL1 register holding variables as uint64_t arm64/debug: Drop redundant DBG_MDSCR_* macros * for-next/vmap-stack: : Force VMAP_STACK on arm64 arm64: remove CONFIG_VMAP_STACK checks from entry code arm64: remove CONFIG_VMAP_STACK checks from SDEI stack handling arm64: remove CONFIG_VMAP_STACK checks from stacktrace overflow logic arm64: remove CONFIG_VMAP_STACK conditionals from traps overflow stack arm64: remove CONFIG_VMAP_STACK conditionals from irq stack setup arm64: Remove CONFIG_VMAP_STACK conditionals from THREAD_SHIFT and THREAD_ALIGN arm64: efi: Remove CONFIG_VMAP_STACK check arm64: Mandate VMAP_STACK arm64: efi: Fix KASAN false positive for EFI runtime stack arm64/ptrace: Fix stack-out-of-bounds read in regs_get_kernel_stack_nth() arm64/gcs: Don't call gcs_free() during flush_gcs() arm64: Restrict pagetable teardown to avoid false warning docs: arm64: Fix ICC_SRE_EL2 register typo in booting.rst

docs: arm64: gic-v5: Document booting requirements for GICv5

2025-07-08T17:35:52+00:00

Document the requirements for booting a kernel on a system implementing a GICv5 interrupt controller. Specifically, other than DT/ACPI providing the required firmware representation, define what traps must be disabled if the kernel is booted at EL1 on a system where EL2 is implemented. Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Marc Zyngier Acked-by: Catalin Marinas Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250703-gicv5-host-v7-30-12e71f1b3528@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier