Merge tag 'kvm-arm-for-5.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvmarm/kvmarm into HEAD

KVM/arm updates for 5.3

- Add support for chained PMU counters in guests
- Improve SError handling
- Handle Neoverse N1 erratum #1349291
- Allow side-channel mitigation status to be migrated
- Standardise most AArch64 system register accesses to msr_s/mrs_s
- Fix host MPIDR corruption on 32bit

2 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/silicon-errata.txt b/Documentation/arm64/silicon-errata.txt
index 2735462d5958..51d506a1f8dc 100644
--- a/Documentation/arm64/silicon-errata.txt
+++ b/Documentation/arm64/silicon-errata.txt
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ stable kernels.
 | ARM            | Cortex-A76      | #1286807        | ARM64_ERRATUM_1286807       |
 | ARM            | Cortex-A76      | #1463225        | ARM64_ERRATUM_1463225       |
 | ARM            | Neoverse-N1     | #1188873,1418040| ARM64_ERRATUM_1418040       |
+| ARM            | Neoverse-N1     | #1349291        | N/A                         |
 | ARM            | MMU-500         | #841119,826419  | N/A                         |
 |                |                 |                 |                             |
 | Cavium         | ThunderX ITS    | #22375,24313    | CAVIUM_ERRATUM_22375        |
diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/sve.txt b/Documentation/arm64/sve.txt
index 9940e924a47e..5689fc9a976a 100644
--- a/Documentation/arm64/sve.txt
+++ b/Documentation/arm64/sve.txt
@@ -56,6 +56,18 @@ model features for SVE is included in Appendix A.
   is to connect to a target process first and then attempt a
   ptrace(PTRACE_GETREGSET, pid, NT_ARM_SVE, &iov).
 
+* Whenever SVE scalable register values (Zn, Pn, FFR) are exchanged in memory
+  between userspace and the kernel, the register value is encoded in memory in
+  an endianness-invariant layout, with bits [(8 * i + 7) : (8 * i)] encoded at
+  byte offset i from the start of the memory representation.  This affects for
+  example the signal frame (struct sve_context) and ptrace interface
+  (struct user_sve_header) and associated data.
+
+  Beware that on big-endian systems this results in a different byte order than
+  for the FPSIMD V-registers, which are stored as single host-endian 128-bit
+  values, with bits [(127 - 8 * i) : (120 - 8 * i)] of the register encoded at
+  byte offset i.  (struct fpsimd_context, struct user_fpsimd_state).
+
 
 2.  Vector length terminology
 -----------------------------
@@ -124,6 +136,10 @@ the SVE instruction set architecture.
   size and layout.  Macros SVE_SIG_* are defined [1] to facilitate access to
   the members.
 
+* Each scalable register (Zn, Pn, FFR) is stored in an endianness-invariant
+  layout, with bits [(8 * i + 7) : (8 * i)] stored at byte offset i from the
+  start of the register's representation in memory.
+
 * If the SVE context is too big to fit in sigcontext.__reserved[], then extra
   space is allocated on the stack, an extra_context record is written in
   __reserved[] referencing this space.  sve_context is then written in the