KVM: arm64: Clarify rationale for ZCR_EL1 value restored on guest exit

Expand comment clarifying why the host value representing SVE
vector length being restored for ZCR_EL1 on guest exit isn't the
same as it was on guest entry.

Signed-off-by: Fuad Tabba <tabba@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240423150538.2103045-21-tabba@google.com
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
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Fuad Tabba
2024-04-23 16:05:28 +01:00
committed by Marc Zyngier
parent b6ed4fa941
commit eef4ce6363

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@@ -175,12 +175,34 @@ void kvm_arch_vcpu_put_fp(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
if (vcpu_has_sve(vcpu)) {
__vcpu_sys_reg(vcpu, ZCR_EL1) = read_sysreg_el1(SYS_ZCR);
/* Restore the VL that was saved when bound to the CPU */
/*
* Restore the VL that was saved when bound to the CPU,
* which is the maximum VL for the guest. Because the
* layout of the data when saving the sve state depends
* on the VL, we need to use a consistent (i.e., the
* maximum) VL.
* Note that this means that at guest exit ZCR_EL1 is
* not necessarily the same as on guest entry.
*
* Restoring the VL isn't needed in VHE mode since
* ZCR_EL2 (accessed via ZCR_EL1) would fulfill the same
* role when doing the save from EL2.
*/
if (!has_vhe())
sve_cond_update_zcr_vq(vcpu_sve_max_vq(vcpu) - 1,
SYS_ZCR_EL1);
}
/*
* Flush (save and invalidate) the fpsimd/sve state so that if
* the host tries to use fpsimd/sve, it's not using stale data
* from the guest.
*
* Flushing the state sets the TIF_FOREIGN_FPSTATE bit for the
* context unconditionally, in both nVHE and VHE. This allows
* the kernel to restore the fpsimd/sve state, including ZCR_EL1
* when needed.
*/
fpsimd_save_and_flush_cpu_state();
} else if (has_vhe() && system_supports_sve()) {
/*