[RFC] [PATCH 0/4] KVM: arm64: emulation for CTR_EL0

[Marc Zyngier]

On Mon, 18 Mar 2024 11:16:32 +0000,
Sebastian Ott <sebott at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> Hej folks,
> 
> I'm looking into supporting migration between 2 Ampere Altra (Max)
> machines (using Neoverse-N1). They are almost identical regarding
> their feature id register state except for CTR_EL0.DIC which is set
> on one machine but not the other.
> 
> For a complete picture it's worth noting that the machine with
> CTR_EL0.DIC = 1 also suffers from erratum 1542419 meaning for
> userspace we trap the access and fake DIC=0. A KVM guest still sees
> the original host value for that register (I assume that this is
> intentional so that a guest OS can apply its own workaround to the
> erratum).

Indeed.

The intention is that the EL1 guest will hide DIC for EL0, while EL3
will trap IC instructions from EL0 and replace them with a TLBI.
That's of course assuming that the machine has received an updated
firmware, something that cannot be probed AFAICT.

	M.

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