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| author | Jintack Lim <jintack.lim@linaro.org> | 2023-02-09 17:58:03 +0000 |
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| committer | Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev> | 2023-02-11 09:16:11 +0000 |
| commit | 675cabc89900732a8a90f19a3c6ed314327a96e0 (patch) | |
| tree | af0c74c5ab86ada3c06b033718a13e653e35a16d /Documentation/admin-guide | |
| parent | 5dc4c995db9eb45f6373a956eb1f69460e69e6d4 (diff) | |
arm64: Add ARM64_HAS_NESTED_VIRT cpufeature
Add a new ARM64_HAS_NESTED_VIRT feature to indicate that the
CPU has the ARMv8.3 nested virtualization capability, together
with the 'kvm-arm.mode=nested' command line option.
This will be used to support nested virtualization in KVM.
Reviewed-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jintack Lim <jintack.lim@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@arm.com>
[maz: moved the command-line option to kvm-arm.mode]
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230209175820.1939006-2-maz@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/admin-guide')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index 6cfa6e3996cf..b7b0704e360e 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -2553,9 +2553,14 @@ protected: nVHE-based mode with support for guests whose state is kept private from the host. + nested: VHE-based mode with support for nested + virtualization. Requires at least ARMv8.3 + hardware. + Defaults to VHE/nVHE based on hardware support. Setting mode to "protected" will disable kexec and hibernation - for the host. + for the host. "nested" is experimental and should be + used with extreme caution. kvm-arm.vgic_v3_group0_trap= [KVM,ARM] Trap guest accesses to GICv3 group-0 |