On Mon, 19 Jan 2026, Cornelia Huck wrote:
Note: this is on top of <[email protected]>
("[PATCH v3 0/2] arm: move DCZID_EL0 to idregs array")

While trying to move to an autogenerated cpu-sysregs.h.inc (so that we
may keep a common view on registers), we should first address the ID
registers that are still kept outside of ARMISARegisters. Other than
DCZID_EL0 (addressed by the series this one goes on top of), that's
the CCSIDR_EL1 values kept in cpu->cssidr[] (indexed via CSSELR_EL1.)

My idea was to provide {GET,SET}_IDREG_DEMUX helper that work similar
to {GET,SET}_IDREG and operate on a two-dimensional array. As a side
effect, this also allows to get the values KVM provides for CCSIDR_EL1
(which are virtualized as well.)

RFC because there are still some open questions:
- The demux array cannot easily be autogenerated. We can get rid of the
 ccsidr[] array, but we now have an autogenerated entry in the non-demux
 array that does nothing. Both are not that nice.
- I'm not sure if we need any compat handling for KVM (on TCG, everything
 should stay the same.) In theory, the KVM interface allows setting
 values from userspace (I didn't try.)
- There's a slight disagreement between the current code (providing 16
 entries for CCSIDR_EL1) and the KVM code (providing (7 cache levels) *
 (data/unified, instruction) = 14 entries.) With FEAT_MTE2, we might be
 needing 7 more entries.


LGTM!

Reviewed-by: Sebastian Ott <[email protected]>

Thanks,
Sebastian


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