[PATCH v2 4/5] KVM: arm64: Report optional ID register traps with a 0x18 syndrome
Ben Horgan
ben.horgan at arm.com
Wed Nov 26 09:10:12 PST 2025
Hi Marc,
On 11/26/25 15:59, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> With FEAT_IDST, unimplemented system registers in the feature ID space
> must be reported using EC=0x18 at the closest handling EL, rather than
> with an UNDEF.
>
> Most of these system registers are always implemented thanks to their
> dependency on FEAT_AA64, except for a set of (currently) three registers:
> GMID_EL1 (depending on MTE2), CCSIDR2_EL1 (depending on FEAT_CCIDX),
> and SMIDR_EL1 (depending on SME).
>
> For these three registers, report their trap as EC=0x18 if they
> end-up trapping into KVM and that FEAT_IDST is not implemented in the
> guest. Otherwise, just make them UNDEF.
Missed it before but there is a stray 'not' in there. You get the
EC=0x18 trap if FEAT_IDST is implemented.
>
> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz at kernel.org>
> ---
> arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c | 16 +++++++++++++---
> 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
The code looks good.
Reviewed-by: Ben Horgan
Thanks,
Ben
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