Re: [PATCH v2 5/6] KVM: arm64: show writable masks for feature registers

[Sebastian Ott]

On Wed, 1 May 2024, Oliver Upton wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 26, 2024 at 12:49:49PM +0200, Sebastian Ott wrote:
> > Instead of using ~0UL provide the actual writable mask for
> > non-id feature registers in the output of the
> > KVM_ARM_GET_REG_WRITABLE_MASKS ioctl.
>
> Urgh, yeah in retrospect I think we should've constrained this to the
> registers KVM considers "id regs" (the space occupied by known registers
> or otherwise RAZ).
>
> > Explicitely set the mask for CLIDR_EL1 to make sure we present
> > the same value to userspace than before.
>
> typo: explicitly
>
> Also, we know the set of mutable bits for CLIDR_EL1 as it is handled in
> set_clidr(). The mask really should match that, since the UAPI is
> documented as "allowing userspace to know what fields can be changed for
> the system register"

Done for the next revision.

Thanks,
Sebastian