On Tue, 25 Nov 2025 at 16:09, Cornelia Huck <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Nov 24 2025, Peter Maydell <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 19 Nov 2025 at 13:44, Cornelia Huck <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> This requires a bit of care, since we still have to handle the EL
> >> specific part (DCZID_EL0.DZP). Callers can set/access dcz_blocksize
> >> via a wrapper working on DCZID_EL.BS.
> >>
> >> KVM currently does not support DCZID_EL0 via ONE_REG, and actually
> >> does not need to work with it, so provide a dummy value for now.
> >
> > That seems like an odd (unintended?) omission -- is it worth
> > adding? (We would need to handle older kernels that don't
> > expose it anyway, of course.)
>
> I'm not sure whether there's actually a usecase for KVM exposing this to
> the VMM - AFAICS, KVM doesn't do anything special for DC ZVA and
> friends, and doesn't tweak HCR_EL2.TDZ which would change behaviour.

I guess the only one I can think of is to correctly fail
migration from a source CPU with a DCZID_EL0.BS that doesn't
match the one on the destination CPU. (We can't lie to the
guest about the blocksize as part of "tell the guest it has
a different CPU type from the actual host" unless we want to
trap and emulate all the DC ZVA etc insns...)

thanks
-- PMM

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