Re: [PATCH] arm64: Introduce ISAR6 CPU ID register

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On 12/12/2019 14:46, Mark Rutland wrote:
On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 03:44:23PM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
+#define ID_ISAR6_JSCVT_SHIFT		0
+#define ID_ISAR6_DP_SHIFT		4
+#define ID_ISAR6_FHM_SHIFT		8
+#define ID_ISAR6_SB_SHIFT		12
+#define ID_ISAR6_SPECRES_SHIFT		16
+#define ID_ISAR6_BF16_SHIFT		20
+#define ID_ISAR6_I8MM_SHIFT		24

@@ -399,6 +399,7 @@ static const struct __ftr_reg_entry {
  	ARM64_FTR_REG(SYS_ID_ISAR4_EL1, ftr_generic_32bits),
  	ARM64_FTR_REG(SYS_ID_ISAR5_EL1, ftr_id_isar5),
  	ARM64_FTR_REG(SYS_ID_MMFR4_EL1, ftr_id_mmfr4),

+	ARM64_FTR_REG(SYS_ID_ISAR6_EL1, ftr_generic_32bits),

Using ftr_generic_32bits exposes the lowest-common-denominator for all
4-bit fields in the register, and I don't think that's the right thing
to do here, because:

* We have no idea what ID_ISAR6 bits [31:28] may mean in future.

* AFAICT, the instructions described by ID_ISAR6.SPECRES (from the
   ARMv8.0-PredInv extension) operate on the local PE and are not
   broadcast. To make those work as a guest expects, the host will need
   to do additional things (e.g. to preserve that illusion when a vCPU is
   migrated from one pCPU to another and back).

Given that, think we should add an explicit ftr_id_isar6 which only
exposes the fields that we're certain are safe to expose to a guest
(i.e. without SPECRES).

Agree. Thanks for pointing this out. I recommended the usage of
generic_32bits table without actually looking at the feature
definitions.

Anshuman,

Sorry about this.

Cheers
Suzuki
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