[PATCH v2 10/10] KVM: arm64: Convert MDCR_EL2 RES0 handling to compute_reg_res0_bits()

[Marc Zyngier]

Hi Ben,

On Fri, 19 Sep 2025 11:53:54 +0100,
Ben Horgan <ben.horgan at arm.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Marc,
> 
> On 9/18/25 16:14, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> > While MDCR_EL2 cannot be RES0, convert it to the same infrastructure
> > anyway, as it make things cleaner.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz at kernel.org>
> > ---
> >  arch/arm64/kvm/config.c | 9 +++++----
> >  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/config.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/config.c
> > index 7b5c5044d4f64..109d1edcd83d4 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/config.c
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/config.c
> [...]
> > @@ -1417,8 +1419,7 @@ void get_reg_fixed_bits(struct kvm *kvm, enum vcpu_sysreg reg, u64 *res0, u64 *r
> >  		*res1 = SCTLR_EL1_RES1;
> >  		break;
> >  	case MDCR_EL2:
> > -		*res0 = compute_res0_bits(kvm, mdcr_el2_feat_map,
> > -					  ARRAY_SIZE(mdcr_el2_feat_map), 0, 0);
> > +		*res0 = compute_reg_res0_bits(kvm, &mdcr_el2_desc, 0, 0);
> >  		*res0 |= MDCR_EL2_RES0;
> >  		*res1 = MDCR_EL2_RES1;
> >  		break;
> 
> The patch itself looks fine to me but I am confused as to why MDCR_EL2
> is the only switch case where we have:
> 
> *res0 |= <reg>_RES0;
> 
> Should this not be present in the other cases?

No, the RES0 bits should already be factored in from
compute_reg_res0_bits(), and this line is only a benign leftover. I'll
fix this before merging the series.

Thanks for the heads up,

	M.

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