On Fri, Mar 06, 2026 at 05:00:55PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> Some parts of the SME state are optional, enabled by additional features
> on top of the base FEAT_SME and controlled with enable bits in SMCR_ELx. We
> unconditionally enable these for the host but for KVM we will allow the
> feature set exposed to guests to be restricted by the VMM. These are the
> FFR register (FEAT_SME_FA64) and ZT0 (FEAT_SME2).
> 
> We defer saving of guest floating point state for non-protected guests to
> the host kernel. We also want to avoid having to reconfigure the guest
> floating point state if nothing used the floating point state while running
> the host. If the guest was running with the optional features disabled then
> traps will be enabled for them so the host kernel will need to skip
> accessing that state when saving state for the guest.
> 
> Support this by moving the decision about saving this state to the point
> where we bind floating point state to the CPU, adding a new variable to
> the cpu_fp_state which uses the enable bits in SMCR_ELx to flag which
> features are enabled.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Fuad Tabba <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <[email protected]>

Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]>

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