[PATCH v4 1/3] KVM: arm64: Disable fields that KVM doesn't know how to handle in ID_AA64PFR1_EL1
Oliver Upton
oliver.upton at linux.dev
Wed Jul 17 23:09:08 PDT 2024
Hi Shaoqin,
On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 11:50:14PM -0400, Shaoqin Huang wrote:
> For some of the fields in the ID_AA64PFR1_EL1 register, KVM doesn't know
> how to handle them right now. So explicitly disable them in the register
> accessor, then those fields value will be masked to 0 even if on the
> hardware the field value is 1.
It is probably important to note that the only reason this is safe to do
from a UAPI POV is that read_sanitised_ftr_reg() doesn't yet return a
nonzero value for any of these fields.
--
Thanks,
Oliver
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