[PATCH v2 4/6] KVM: arm64: add emulation for CTR_EL0 register

Sebastian Ott sebott at redhat.com
Wed May 8 08:17:25 PDT 2024


Hej Oliver,

On Wed, 1 May 2024, Oliver Upton wrote:
>> +static u64 reset_ctr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, const struct sys_reg_desc *rd)
>> +{
>> +	vcpu->kvm->arch.ctr_el0 = read_sanitised_ftr_reg(SYS_CTR_EL0);
>> +	return vcpu->kvm->arch.ctr_el0;
>> +}
>> +
>
> We definitely do not want this value to change across a vCPU reset, it
> should be handled like the other ID registers where they only get reset
> once for the VM lifetime.

Hm, maybe I'm misreading the code here but I don't think this is true
for existing regs e.g. CLIDR_EL1 or the stuff defined via ID_WRITABLE().

Sebastian




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