[PATCH 13/20] KVM: arm64: Move RESx into individual register descriptors

Fuad Tabba tabba at google.com
Thu Jan 29 08:29:39 PST 2026


Hi Marc,

On Mon, 26 Jan 2026 at 12:17, Marc Zyngier <maz at kernel.org> wrote:
>
> Instead of hacking the RES1 bits at runtime, move them into the
> register descriptors. This makes it significantly nicer.
>
> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz at kernel.org>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/kvm/config.c | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
>  1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/config.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/config.c
> index 7063fffc22799..d5871758f1fcc 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/config.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/config.c
> @@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ struct reg_bits_to_feat_map {
>  #define        RES0_WHEN_E2H1  BIT(7)  /* RES0 when E2H=1 and not supported */
>  #define        RES1_WHEN_E2H0  BIT(8)  /* RES1 when E2H=0 and not supported */
>  #define        RES1_WHEN_E2H1  BIT(9)  /* RES1 when E2H=1 and not supported */
> +#define        FORCE_RESx      BIT(10) /* Unconditional RESx */
>
>         unsigned long   flags;
>
> @@ -107,6 +108,11 @@ struct reg_feat_map_desc {
>   */
>  #define NEEDS_FEAT(m, ...)     NEEDS_FEAT_FLAG(m, 0, __VA_ARGS__)
>
> +/* Declare fixed RESx bits */
> +#define FORCE_RES0(m)          NEEDS_FEAT_FLAG(m, FORCE_RESx, enforce_resx)
> +#define FORCE_RES1(m)          NEEDS_FEAT_FLAG(m, FORCE_RESx | AS_RES1, \
> +                                               enforce_resx)
> +
>  /*
>   * Declare the dependency between a non-FGT register, a set of
>   * feature, and the set of individual bits it contains. This generates

nit: features

> @@ -230,6 +236,15 @@ struct reg_feat_map_desc {
>  #define FEAT_HCX               ID_AA64MMFR1_EL1, HCX, IMP
>  #define FEAT_S2PIE             ID_AA64MMFR3_EL1, S2PIE, IMP
>
> +static bool enforce_resx(struct kvm *kvm)
> +{
> +       /*
> +        * Returning false here means that the RESx bits will be always
> +        * addded to the fixed set bit. Yes, this is counter-intuitive.

nit: added

> +        */
> +       return false;
> +}

I see what you're doing here, but it took me a while to get it and
convince myself that there aren't any bugs (my self couldn't find any
bugs, but I wouldn't trust him that much). You already introduce a new
flag, FORCE_RESx. Why not just check that directly in the
compute_resx_bits() loop, before the check for CALL_FUNC?

+ if (map[i].flags & FORCE_RESx)
+     match = false;
+ else if (map[i].flags & CALL_FUNC)
...

The way it is now, to understand FORCE_RES0, you must trace a flag, a
macro expansion, and a function pointer, just to set a boolean to
false.

Cheers,
/fuad


> +
>  static bool not_feat_aa64el3(struct kvm *kvm)
>  {
>         return !kvm_has_feat(kvm, FEAT_AA64EL3);
> @@ -1009,6 +1024,8 @@ static const struct reg_bits_to_feat_map hcr_feat_map[] = {
>                    HCR_EL2_TWEDEn,
>                    FEAT_TWED),
>         NEEDS_FEAT_FIXED(HCR_EL2_E2H, compute_hcr_e2h),
> +       FORCE_RES0(HCR_EL2_RES0),
> +       FORCE_RES1(HCR_EL2_RES1),
>  };
>
>  static const DECLARE_FEAT_MAP(hcr_desc, HCR_EL2,
> @@ -1029,6 +1046,8 @@ static const struct reg_bits_to_feat_map sctlr2_feat_map[] = {
>                    SCTLR2_EL1_CPTM      |
>                    SCTLR2_EL1_CPTM0,
>                    FEAT_CPA2),
> +       FORCE_RES0(SCTLR2_EL1_RES0),
> +       FORCE_RES1(SCTLR2_EL1_RES1),
>  };
>
>  static const DECLARE_FEAT_MAP(sctlr2_desc, SCTLR2_EL1,
> @@ -1054,6 +1073,8 @@ static const struct reg_bits_to_feat_map tcr2_el2_feat_map[] = {
>                    TCR2_EL2_E0POE,
>                    FEAT_S1POE),
>         NEEDS_FEAT(TCR2_EL2_PIE, FEAT_S1PIE),
> +       FORCE_RES0(TCR2_EL2_RES0),
> +       FORCE_RES1(TCR2_EL2_RES1),
>  };
>
>  static const DECLARE_FEAT_MAP(tcr2_el2_desc, TCR2_EL2,
> @@ -1131,6 +1152,8 @@ static const struct reg_bits_to_feat_map sctlr_el1_feat_map[] = {
>                    SCTLR_EL1_A          |
>                    SCTLR_EL1_M,
>                    FEAT_AA64EL1),
> +       FORCE_RES0(SCTLR_EL1_RES0),
> +       FORCE_RES1(SCTLR_EL1_RES1),
>  };
>
>  static const DECLARE_FEAT_MAP(sctlr_el1_desc, SCTLR_EL1,
> @@ -1165,6 +1188,8 @@ static const struct reg_bits_to_feat_map mdcr_el2_feat_map[] = {
>                    MDCR_EL2_TDE         |
>                    MDCR_EL2_TDRA,
>                    FEAT_AA64EL1),
> +       FORCE_RES0(MDCR_EL2_RES0),
> +       FORCE_RES1(MDCR_EL2_RES1),
>  };
>
>  static const DECLARE_FEAT_MAP(mdcr_el2_desc, MDCR_EL2,
> @@ -1203,6 +1228,8 @@ static const struct reg_bits_to_feat_map vtcr_el2_feat_map[] = {
>                    VTCR_EL2_SL0         |
>                    VTCR_EL2_T0SZ,
>                    FEAT_AA64EL1),
> +       FORCE_RES0(VTCR_EL2_RES0),
> +       FORCE_RES1(VTCR_EL2_RES1),
>  };
>
>  static const DECLARE_FEAT_MAP(vtcr_el2_desc, VTCR_EL2,
> @@ -1214,7 +1241,8 @@ static void __init check_feat_map(const struct reg_bits_to_feat_map *map,
>         u64 mask = 0;
>
>         for (int i = 0; i < map_size; i++)
> -               mask |= map[i].bits;
> +               if (!(map[i].flags & FORCE_RESx))
> +                       mask |= map[i].bits;
>
>         if (mask != ~resx)
>                 kvm_err("Undefined %s behaviour, bits %016llx\n",
> @@ -1447,28 +1475,22 @@ struct resx get_reg_fixed_bits(struct kvm *kvm, enum vcpu_sysreg reg)
>                 break;
>         case HCR_EL2:
>                 resx = compute_reg_resx_bits(kvm, &hcr_desc, 0, 0);
> -               resx.res1 |= HCR_EL2_RES1;
>                 break;
>         case SCTLR2_EL1:
>         case SCTLR2_EL2:
>                 resx = compute_reg_resx_bits(kvm, &sctlr2_desc, 0, 0);
> -               resx.res1 |= SCTLR2_EL1_RES1;
>                 break;
>         case TCR2_EL2:
>                 resx = compute_reg_resx_bits(kvm, &tcr2_el2_desc, 0, 0);
> -               resx.res1 |= TCR2_EL2_RES1;
>                 break;
>         case SCTLR_EL1:
>                 resx = compute_reg_resx_bits(kvm, &sctlr_el1_desc, 0, 0);
> -               resx.res1 |= SCTLR_EL1_RES1;
>                 break;
>         case MDCR_EL2:
>                 resx = compute_reg_resx_bits(kvm, &mdcr_el2_desc, 0, 0);
> -               resx.res1 |= MDCR_EL2_RES1;
>                 break;
>         case VTCR_EL2:
>                 resx = compute_reg_resx_bits(kvm, &vtcr_el2_desc, 0, 0);
> -               resx.res1 |= VTCR_EL2_RES1;
>                 break;
>         default:
>                 WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
> --
> 2.47.3
>



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