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

[Oliver Upton]

On Wed, May 08, 2024 at 05:17:25PM +0200, Sebastian Ott wrote:
> 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().

This works for the feature ID registers we maintain per-VM, but not for
the feature ID registers local to a vCPU. Sent some fixes out for this
but forgot to Cc you on it, apologies.

https://lore.kernel.org/kvmarm/20240502233529.1958459-1-oliver.upton@linux.dev/

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Thanks,
Oliver