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| author | Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> | 2021-04-08 14:10:10 +0100 |
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| committer | Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> | 2021-04-08 18:45:16 +0100 |
| commit | 2d726d0db6ac479d91bf74490455badd34af6b1d (patch) | |
| tree | c53214d84b012914407694d5f2379a6f059c5285 /arch/arm64/Kconfig | |
| parent | 31a32b49b80f79cbb84a9c948c5609c6fc044443 (diff) | |
arm64: Get rid of CONFIG_ARM64_VHE
CONFIG_ARM64_VHE was introduced with ARMv8.1 (some 7 years ago),
and has been enabled by default for almost all that time.
Given that newer systems that are VHE capable are finally becoming
available, and that some systems are even incapable of not running VHE,
drop the configuration altogether.
Anyone willing to stick to non-VHE on VHE hardware for obscure
reasons should use the 'kvm-arm.mode=nvhe' command-line option.
Suggested-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210408131010.1109027-4-maz@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm64/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/arm64/Kconfig | 20 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig index 5656e7aacd69..e9fbb0b45793 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig @@ -1416,19 +1416,6 @@ config ARM64_USE_LSE_ATOMICS built with binutils >= 2.25 in order for the new instructions to be used. -config ARM64_VHE - bool "Enable support for Virtualization Host Extensions (VHE)" - default y - help - Virtualization Host Extensions (VHE) allow the kernel to run - directly at EL2 (instead of EL1) on processors that support - it. This leads to better performance for KVM, as they reduce - the cost of the world switch. - - Selecting this option allows the VHE feature to be detected - at runtime, and does not affect processors that do not - implement this feature. - endmenu menu "ARMv8.2 architectural features" @@ -1684,7 +1671,6 @@ endmenu config ARM64_SVE bool "ARM Scalable Vector Extension support" default y - depends on !KVM || ARM64_VHE help The Scalable Vector Extension (SVE) is an extension to the AArch64 execution state which complements and extends the SIMD functionality @@ -1713,12 +1699,6 @@ config ARM64_SVE booting the kernel. If unsure and you are not observing these symptoms, you should assume that it is safe to say Y. - CPUs that support SVE are architecturally required to support the - Virtualization Host Extensions (VHE), so the kernel makes no - provision for supporting SVE alongside KVM without VHE enabled. - Thus, you will need to enable CONFIG_ARM64_VHE if you want to support - KVM in the same kernel image. - config ARM64_MODULE_PLTS bool "Use PLTs to allow module memory to spill over into vmalloc area" depends on MODULES |