On Mon, 19 Jan 2026 18:27:29 +0100
Cornelia Huck <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi Cornelia,



> Note: this is on top of <[email protected]>
> ("[PATCH v3 0/2] arm: move DCZID_EL0 to idregs array")
> 
> While trying to move to an autogenerated cpu-sysregs.h.inc (so that we
> may keep a common view on registers), we should first address the ID
> registers that are still kept outside of ARMISARegisters. Other than
> DCZID_EL0 (addressed by the series this one goes on top of), that's
> the CCSIDR_EL1 values kept in cpu->cssidr[] (indexed via CSSELR_EL1.)
> 
> My idea was to provide {GET,SET}_IDREG_DEMUX helper that work similar
> to {GET,SET}_IDREG and operate on a two-dimensional array. As a side
> effect, this also allows to get the values KVM provides for CCSIDR_EL1
> (which are virtualized as well.)
> 
> RFC because there are still some open questions:
> - The demux array cannot easily be autogenerated. We can get rid of the
>   ccsidr[] array, but we now have an autogenerated entry in the non-demux
>   array that does nothing. Both are not that nice.
> - I'm not sure if we need any compat handling for KVM (on TCG, everything
>   should stay the same.) In theory, the KVM interface allows setting
>   values from userspace (I didn't try.)
> - There's a slight disagreement between the current code (providing 16
>   entries for CCSIDR_EL1) and the KVM code (providing (7 cache levels) *
>   (data/unified, instruction) = 14 entries.) With FEAT_MTE2, we might be
>   needing 7 more entries.
> 
> Feedback appreciated.
> 
> Cornelia Huck (3):
>   arm: handle demuxed ID registers
>   arm: handle CCSIDR_EL1 as a demuxed register
>   arm/kvm: get demuxed ID registers from kvm
> 
>  hw/intc/armv7m_nvic.c        |  2 +-
>  target/arm/cpu-sysregs.h     |  6 ++++
>  target/arm/cpu-sysregs.h.inc |  1 +
>  target/arm/cpu.h             | 26 ++++++++++++----
>  target/arm/cpu64.c           | 12 ++++----
>  target/arm/helper.c          |  2 +-
>  target/arm/kvm.c             | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++
>  target/arm/tcg/cpu32.c       | 32 +++++++++----------
>  target/arm/tcg/cpu64.c       | 60 ++++++++++++++++++------------------
>  9 files changed, 114 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)
> 

This impacts my set 
https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/

I tested it with mine of course it required a few changes, but looks like 
working on TCG, didn't try KVM.

Tested-by: Alireza Sanaee <[email protected]>

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