[PATCH v4 01/23] arm64: cpufeature: Add cpucap for HPMN0

Colton Lewis coltonlewis at google.com
Mon Jul 21 11:00:34 PDT 2025


Hi Suzuki. Thanks for the review.

Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose at arm.com> writes:

> On 14/07/2025 23:58, Colton Lewis wrote:
>> Add a capability for FEAT_HPMN0, whether MDCR_EL2.HPMN can specify 0
>> counters reserved for the guest.

>> This required changing HPMN0 to an UnsignedEnum in tools/sysreg
>> because otherwise not all the appropriate macros are generated to add
>> it to arm64_cpu_capabilities_arm64_features.

>> Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Colton Lewis <coltonlewis at google.com>
>> ---
>>    arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c | 8 ++++++++
>>    arch/arm64/tools/cpucaps       | 1 +
>>    arch/arm64/tools/sysreg        | 6 +++---
>>    3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c  
>> b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
>> index b34044e20128..f38d7b5294ec 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
>> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
>> @@ -548,6 +548,7 @@ static const struct arm64_ftr_bits ftr_id_mmfr0[] = {
>>    };

>>    static const struct arm64_ftr_bits ftr_id_aa64dfr0[] = {
>> +	ARM64_FTR_BITS(FTR_HIDDEN, FTR_STRICT, FTR_LOWER_SAFE,  
>> ID_AA64DFR0_EL1_HPMN0_SHIFT, 4, 0),

> This doesn't have to be FTR_STRICT. The kernel can deal with
> differences, by skipping to use HPMN0. We anyway rely on the
> system wide cap for using the feature.

Okay. I'll change it


> Otherwise,

> Acked-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose at arm.com>



Thanks
>>    	S_ARM64_FTR_BITS(FTR_HIDDEN, FTR_STRICT, FTR_LOWER_SAFE,  
>> ID_AA64DFR0_EL1_DoubleLock_SHIFT, 4, 0),
>>    	ARM64_FTR_BITS(FTR_HIDDEN, FTR_NONSTRICT, FTR_LOWER_SAFE,  
>> ID_AA64DFR0_EL1_PMSVer_SHIFT, 4, 0),
>>    	ARM64_FTR_BITS(FTR_HIDDEN, FTR_STRICT, FTR_LOWER_SAFE,  
>> ID_AA64DFR0_EL1_CTX_CMPs_SHIFT, 4, 0),
>> @@ -2896,6 +2897,13 @@ static const struct arm64_cpu_capabilities  
>> arm64_features[] = {
>>    		.matches = has_cpuid_feature,
>>    		ARM64_CPUID_FIELDS(ID_AA64MMFR0_EL1, FGT, FGT2)
>>    	},
>> +	{
>> +		.desc = "HPMN0",
>> +		.type = ARM64_CPUCAP_SYSTEM_FEATURE,
>> +		.capability = ARM64_HAS_HPMN0,
>> +		.matches = has_cpuid_feature,
>> +		ARM64_CPUID_FIELDS(ID_AA64DFR0_EL1, HPMN0, IMP)
>> +	},
>>    #ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_SME
>>    	{
>>    		.desc = "Scalable Matrix Extension",
>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/tools/cpucaps b/arch/arm64/tools/cpucaps
>> index 10effd4cff6b..5b196ba21629 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm64/tools/cpucaps
>> +++ b/arch/arm64/tools/cpucaps
>> @@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ HAS_GIC_CPUIF_SYSREGS
>>    HAS_GIC_PRIO_MASKING
>>    HAS_GIC_PRIO_RELAXED_SYNC
>>    HAS_HCR_NV1
>> +HAS_HPMN0
>>    HAS_HCX
>>    HAS_LDAPR
>>    HAS_LPA2
>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/tools/sysreg b/arch/arm64/tools/sysreg
>> index 8a8cf6874298..d29742481754 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm64/tools/sysreg
>> +++ b/arch/arm64/tools/sysreg
>> @@ -1531,9 +1531,9 @@ EndEnum
>>    EndSysreg

>>    Sysreg	ID_AA64DFR0_EL1	3	0	0	5	0
>> -Enum	63:60	HPMN0
>> -	0b0000	UNPREDICTABLE
>> -	0b0001	DEF
>> +UnsignedEnum	63:60	HPMN0
>> +	0b0000	NI
>> +	0b0001	IMP
>>    EndEnum
>>    UnsignedEnum	59:56	ExtTrcBuff
>>    	0b0000	NI



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