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Documentation: Update the behaviour of "kvm-arm.mode"

Message ID 20241023171244.4031151-1-smostafa@google.com (mailing list archive)
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Series Documentation: Update the behaviour of "kvm-arm.mode" | expand

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Mostafa Saleh Oct. 23, 2024, 5:12 p.m. UTC 
Commit 5053c3f0519c ("KVM: arm64: Use hVHE in pKVM by default on CPUs with
VHE support") modified the behaviour of "kvm-arm.mode=protected" without
the updating the kernel parameters doc.

Update it to match the current implementation.

Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>

Signed-off-by: Mostafa Saleh <smostafa@google.com>
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 Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index bb48ae24ae69..59a0dd7e2de6 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -2723,8 +2723,12 @@ 
 			nvhe: Standard nVHE-based mode, without support for
 			      protected guests.
 
-			protected: nVHE-based mode with support for guests whose
+			protected: hVHE-based mode with support for guests whose
 				   state is kept private from the host.
+				   In case hVHE is not supported in hardware, it will
+				   boot with protected nVHE.
+				   nVHE protected mode can still be forced on VHE systems
+				   using "kvm_arm.mode=protected arm64_sw.hvhe=0 id_aa64mmfr1.vh=0"
 
 			nested: VHE-based mode with support for nested
 				virtualization. Requires at least ARMv8.3