Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] KVM: arm64: Disable fields that KVM doesn't know how to handle in ID_AA64PFR1_EL1

[Shaoqin Huang <shahuang@redhat.com>]

Hi Oliver,

On 7/18/24 14:09, Oliver Upton wrote:
> Hi Shaoqin,
> 
> On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 11:50:14PM -0400, Shaoqin Huang wrote:
>> For some of the fields in the ID_AA64PFR1_EL1 register, KVM doesn't know
>> how to handle them right now. So explicitly disable them in the register
>> accessor, then those fields value will be masked to 0 even if on the
>> hardware the field value is 1.
> 
> It is probably important to note that the only reason this is safe to do
> from a UAPI POV is that read_sanitised_ftr_reg() doesn't yet return a
> nonzero value for any of these fields.

(Reply again by the plain text)

Yeah. That would be more clear if I tell the reader this information. 
Will add this when updating.

Thanks,
Shaoqin

> 

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Shaoqin