[RFC PATCH 1/3] arm64/sysreg: Expose MTE_frac so that it is visible to KVM

Ben Horgan ben.horgan at arm.com
Mon Apr 14 05:40:57 PDT 2025


KVM exposes the sanitised ID registers to guests. Currently these ignore
the ID_AA64PFR1_EL1.MTE_frac field, meaning guests always see a value of
zero.

This is a problem for platforms without the MTE_ASYNC feature where
ID_AA64PFR1_EL1.MTE==0x2 and ID_AA64PFR1_EL1.MTE_frac==0xf. KVM forces
MTE_frac to zero, meaning the guest believes MTE_ASYNC is supported, when
no async fault will ever occur.

Before KVM can fix this, the architecture needs to sanitise the ID
register field for MTE_frac.

Linux itself does not use MTE_frac field and just assumes MTE async faults
can be generated if MTE is supported.

Signed-off-by: Ben Horgan <ben.horgan at arm.com>
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
index 9c4d6d552b25..e952f4b07ce1 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
@@ -298,6 +298,7 @@ static const struct arm64_ftr_bits ftr_id_aa64pfr0[] = {
 static const struct arm64_ftr_bits ftr_id_aa64pfr1[] = {
 	ARM64_FTR_BITS(FTR_VISIBLE_IF_IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARM64_GCS),
 		       FTR_STRICT, FTR_LOWER_SAFE, ID_AA64PFR1_EL1_GCS_SHIFT, 4, 0),
+	S_ARM64_FTR_BITS(FTR_HIDDEN, FTR_STRICT, FTR_LOWER_SAFE, ID_AA64PFR1_EL1_MTE_frac_SHIFT, 4, 0),
 	ARM64_FTR_BITS(FTR_VISIBLE_IF_IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARM64_SME),
 		       FTR_STRICT, FTR_LOWER_SAFE, ID_AA64PFR1_EL1_SME_SHIFT, 4, 0),
 	ARM64_FTR_BITS(FTR_HIDDEN, FTR_STRICT, FTR_LOWER_SAFE, ID_AA64PFR1_EL1_MPAM_frac_SHIFT, 4, 0),
-- 
2.43.0




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