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If MTE_frac is masked out unconditionally then the guest will always see ID_AA64PFR1_EL1_MTE_frac as 0. However, a value of 0 when ID_AA64PFR1_EL1_MTE is 2 indicates that MTE_ASYNC is supported. Hence, for a host with ID_AA64PFR1_EL1_MTE==2 and ID_AA64PFR1_EL1_MTE_frac==0xf (MTE_ASYNC unsupported) the guest would see MTE_ASYNC advertised as supported whilst the host does not support it. Hence, expose the sanitised value of MTE_frac to the guest and user-space. As MTE_frac was previously hidden, always 0, and KVM must accept values from KVM provided by user-space, when ID_AA64PFR1_EL1.MTE is 2 allow user-space to set ID_AA64PFR1_EL1.MTE_frac to 0. However, ignore it to avoid incorrectly claiming hardware support for MTE_ASYNC in the guest. Note that linux does not check the value of ID_AA64PFR1_EL1_MTE_frac and wrongly assumes that MTE async faults can be generated even on hardware that does nto support them. This issue is not addressed here. Signed-off-by: Ben Horgan <ben.horgan@arm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250512114112.359087-3-ben.horgan@arm.com Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
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Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.