Re: [PATCH 3/3] target/arm: allow writes to SCR_EL3.HXEn bit when FEAT_HCX is enabled

[Peter Maydell]

On Thu, 5 Jan 2023 at 22:13, Evgeny Iakovlev
<eiakovlev@linux.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> ARM trusted firmware, when built with FEAT_HCX support, sets SCR_EL3.HXEn bit
> to allow EL2 to modify HCRX_EL2 register without trapping it in EL3. Qemu
> uses a valid mask to clear unsupported SCR_EL3 bits when emulating SCR_EL3
> write, and that mask doesn't include SCR_EL3.HXEn bit even if FEAT_HCX is
> enabled and exposed to the guest. As a result EL3 writes of that bit are
> ignored.
>
> Signed-off-by: Evgeny Iakovlev <eiakovlev@linux.microsoft.com>
> ---
>  target/arm/helper.c | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/target/arm/helper.c b/target/arm/helper.c
> index bac2ea62c4..962affdd52 100644
> --- a/target/arm/helper.c
> +++ b/target/arm/helper.c
> @@ -1844,6 +1844,9 @@ static void scr_write(CPUARMState *env, const 
> ARMCPRegInfo *ri, uint64_t value)
>          if (cpu_isar_feature(aa64_sme, cpu)) {
>              valid_mask |= SCR_ENTP2;
>          }
> +        if (cpu_isar_feature(aa64_hcx, cpu)) {
> +            valid_mask |= SCR_HXEN;
> +        }
>      } else {
>          valid_mask &= ~(SCR_RW | SCR_ST);
>          if (cpu_isar_feature(aa32_ras, cpu)) {
> --

Oops. This is worth
Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org

I think.

Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>

I'll take this 3rd patch into target-arm.next now; I've left
review comments for the other 2.

thanks
-- PMM