[PATCH v19 05/14] KVM: arm64: Set PSTATE.EXLOCK when entering an exception

[Mark Brown]

On Thu, Aug 20, 2026 at 06:04:18PM +0100, Leonardo Bras wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2026 at 08:12:04PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:

> > +	// PSTATE.EXLOCK is set to 0 upon any exception to a higher
> > +	// EL, or to GCSCR_ELx.EXLOCKEN for an exception to the same
> > +	// exception level.  See ARM DDI 0487 R_WTXBY.
> > +	new |= compute_exlock(vcpu, mode, target_mode);

> we have here, instead (naming is bad):

> 	if (is_exlock_set(vcpu,...))
> 		new |= PSR_EXLOCK_BIT;

> this way it looks more like above sets, such as this one a few lines 
> earlier:

> 	if (kvm_has_mte(kern_hyp_va(vcpu->kvm)))
> 		new |= PSR_TCO_BIT;

> How does that sound?

I have no strong feeelings on that TBH, I can see preferences either
way.
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