On Wed, 10 Jan 2024 at 06:01, Richard Henderson
<richard.hender...@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> On 1/10/24 05:09, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> > cpu_isar_feature(aa64_mte, cpu) is testing a AArch64-only ID
> > register. The ARM_FEATURE_AARCH64 check is redundant.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <phi...@linaro.org>
> > ---
> > target/arm/cpu.c | 3 +--
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/target/arm/cpu.c b/target/arm/cpu.c
> > index 1c8b787482..c828b333c9 100644
> > --- a/target/arm/cpu.c
> > +++ b/target/arm/cpu.c
> > @@ -1690,8 +1690,7 @@ void arm_cpu_post_init(Object *obj)
> > }
> >
> > #ifndef CONFIG_USER_ONLY
> > - if (arm_feature(&cpu->env, ARM_FEATURE_AARCH64) &&
> > - cpu_isar_feature(aa64_mte, cpu)) {
> > + if (cpu_isar_feature(aa64_mte, cpu)) {
> > object_property_add_link(obj, "tag-memory",
> > TYPE_MEMORY_REGION,
> > (Object **)&cpu->tag_memory,
>
> It is not redundant.
>
> If !AARCH64, then the isar registers tested by aa64_mte are invalid.
Ah, I think I steered Philippe wrongly on IRC on this one
because I forgot how our feature checking handled this,
but yes, you're right.
-- PMM
