[v3,0/2] Allow userspace to change ID_AA64PFR1_EL1

Message

Shaoqin Huang June 28, 2024, 6:04 a.m. UTC

Allow userspace to change the guest-visible value of the register with
some severe limitation:

  - No changes to features not virtualized by KVM (MPAM_frac, RAS_frac,
    SME, RNDP_trap).

  - No changes to features (CSV2_frac, NMI, MTE_frac, GCS, THE, MTEX,
    DF2, PFAR) which haven't been added into the ftr_id_aa64pfr1[].
    Because the struct arm64_ftr_bits definition for each feature in the
    ftr_id_aa64pfr1[] is used by arm64_check_features. If they're not
    existing in the ftr_id_aa64pfr1[], the for loop won't check the if
    the new_val is safe for those features.

For the question why can't those fields be hidden depending on the VM
configuration? I don't find there is the related VM configuration, maybe we
should add the new VM configuration?

I'm not sure I'm right, so if there're any problems please help to point out and
I will fix them.

Also add the selftest for it.

Changelog:
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v2 -> v3:
  * Give more description about why only part of the fields can be writable.
  * Updated the writable mask by referring the latest ARM spec.

v1 -> v2:
  * Tackling the full register instead of single field.
  * Changing the patch title and commit message.

RFCv1 -> v1:
  * Fix the compilation error.
  * Delete the machine specific information and make the description more
    generable.

RFCv1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/[e-mail]/
v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/[e-mail]/
v2: https://lore.kernel.org/all/[e-mail]/

Shaoqin Huang (2):
  KVM: arm64: Allow userspace to change ID_AA64PFR1_EL1
  KVM: selftests: aarch64: Add writable test for ID_AA64PFR1_EL1

 arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c                         | 4 +++-
 tools/testing/selftests/kvm/aarch64/set_id_regs.c | 8 ++++++++
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)