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From: Eric Auger <eric.auger@redhat.com>
To: eric.auger.pro@gmail.com, eric.auger@redhat.com,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, qemu-arm@nongnu.org,
	kvmarm@lists.linux.dev, peter.maydell@linaro.org,
	shaju.abraham@nutanix.com, khushit.shah@nutanix.com,
	yangjinqian1@huawei.com, cohuck@redhat.com,
	richard.henderson@linaro.org, sebott@redhat.com,
	skolothumtho@nvidia.com, philmd@oss.qualcomm.com
Cc: maz@kernel.org, oliver.upton@linux.dev, pbonzini@redhat.com,
	armbru@redhat.com, berrange@redhat.com, abologna@redhat.com,
	jdenemar@redhat.com
Subject: [RFC PATCH v7 15/18] target/arm/kvm: Ignore and trace unexpected writable reserved fields
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2026 17:29:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260726153221.24773-16-eric.auger@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260726153221.24773-1-eric.auger@redhat.com>

KVM currently reports some bits as writable whereas they are
RES0 or RAZ. The code easily allows to do some sanity checking
for such inconsistencies. Let's add a trace event when this is
encountered and skip the field

Signed-off-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@redhat.com>
---
 target/arm/kvm.c        | 8 ++++++++
 target/arm/trace-events | 1 +
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/target/arm/kvm.c b/target/arm/kvm.c
index 1a78893f87..fceffee262 100644
--- a/target/arm/kvm.c
+++ b/target/arm/kvm.c
@@ -434,6 +434,14 @@ decode_idreg_writemap(Object *obj, ARM64SysReg *reg)
         }
         lower = field->shift;
         upper = field->shift + field->length - 1;
+
+        /* Sanity check the field is not a reserved field */
+        if (strstr(field->name, "RES0") || strstr(field->name, "RES1") ||
+            strstr(field->name, "RAZ")) {
+            trace_unexpected_writable_reserved_field(reg->name, field->name,
+                                                     lower, upper);
+            continue;
+        }
         prop_name = g_strdup_printf("SYSREG_%s_%s", reg->name, field->name);
         trace_decode_idreg_writemap(field->name, lower, upper, prop_name);
         object_property_add(obj, prop_name, "uint64",
diff --git a/target/arm/trace-events b/target/arm/trace-events
index d72ad6b671..e67730de6b 100644
--- a/target/arm/trace-events
+++ b/target/arm/trace-events
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ decode_idreg_writemap(const char* name, int lower, int upper, char *prop_name) "
 get_sysreg_prop(const char *name, uint64_t value) "%s 0x%"PRIx64
 set_sysreg_prop(const char *name, uint64_t old, uint64_t mask, uint64_t field_value, uint64_t new) "%s old reg value=0x%"PRIx64" mask=0x%"PRIx64" new field value=0x%"PRIx64" new reg value=0x%"PRIx64
 nb_sysreg_props(const char *name, int count) "%s: %d SYSREG properties"
+unexpected_writable_reserved_field(const char *reg_name, const char *field_name, int lower, int upper) "Unexpected writable reserved field: %s.%s [%d,%d], skip it ..."
 
 # cpu.c
 arm_cpu_reset(uint64_t mp_aff) "cpu %" PRIu64
-- 
2.53.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-07-26 15:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-26 15:29 [RFC PATCH v7 00/18] kvm/arm: Introduce a customizable aarch64 KVM host model Eric Auger
2026-07-26 15:29 ` [RFC PATCH v7 01/18] scripts: introduce scripts/update-aarch64-cpu-sysregs-header.py Eric Auger
2026-07-26 15:29 ` [RFC PATCH v7 02/18] target/arm/cpu-sysregs.h.inc: Sort by name alphabetical order Eric Auger
2026-07-26 15:29 ` [RFC PATCH v7 03/18] target/arm/cpu-sysregs.h.inc: Update with automatic generation Eric Auger
2026-07-26 15:29 ` [RFC PATCH v7 04/18] arm/cpu: Add infra to handle generated ID register definitions Eric Auger
2026-07-26 15:29 ` [RFC PATCH v7 05/18] scripts: Introduce scripts/aarch64_sysreg_helpers module Eric Auger
2026-07-26 15:29 ` [RFC PATCH v7 06/18] scripts: Introduce scripts/update-aarch64-cpu-sysreg-properties.py Eric Auger
2026-07-26 15:29 ` [RFC PATCH v7 07/18] target/arm/cpu-idregs.h.inc: generate with script Eric Auger
2026-07-26 15:29 ` [RFC PATCH v7 08/18] target/arm/cpu-idregs.h.inc: Generate enum values Eric Auger
2026-07-26 15:29 ` [RFC PATCH v7 09/18] target/arm/cpu_idregs: generate tables for Arm64 ID registers and fields Eric Auger
2026-07-26 15:29 ` [RFC PATCH v7 10/18] target/arm/kvm: Retrieve writable ID reg map Eric Auger
2026-07-26 15:29 ` [RFC PATCH v7 11/18] arm/kvm: Initialize all writable ID registers from host Eric Auger
2026-07-26 15:29 ` [RFC PATCH v7 12/18] target/arm/kvm: Introduce kvm_arm_expose_idreg_properties Eric Auger
2026-07-26 15:29 ` [RFC PATCH v7 13/18] target/arm/cpu: Expose writable ID reg field properties on the kvm host vcpu model Eric Auger
2026-07-26 15:29 ` [RFC PATCH v7 14/18] target/arm/cpu-idregs.h.inc: Generate reserved fields Eric Auger
2026-07-26 15:29 ` Eric Auger [this message]
2026-07-26 15:29 ` [RFC PATCH v7 16/18] arm/cpu-features: document ID reg properties Eric Auger
2026-07-26 15:29 ` [RFC PATCH v7 17/18] target/arm/kvm: add utility to write idregs in scratch vcpu Eric Auger
2026-07-26 15:29 ` [RFC PATCH v7 18/18] arm-qmp-cmds: introspection for ID register props Eric Auger

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