• Marc Zyngier's avatar
    KVM: arm64: Advertise ID_AA64PFR0_EL1.CSV3=1 if the CPUs are Meltdown-safe · 4f1df628
    Marc Zyngier authored
    Cores that predate the introduction of ID_AA64PFR0_EL1.CSV3 to
    the ARMv8 architecture have this field set to 0, even of some of
    them are not affected by the vulnerability.
    
    The kernel maintains a list of unaffected cores (A53, A55 and a few
    others) so that it doesn't impose an expensive mitigation uncessarily.
    
    As we do for CSV2, let's expose the CSV3 property to guests that run
    on HW that is effectively not vulnerable. This can be reset to zero
    by writing to the ID register from userspace, ensuring that VMs can
    be migrated despite the new property being set.
    Reported-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will@kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMarc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
    4f1df628
kvm_host.h 20.1 KB