Re: [PATCH v4 11/12] KVM: arm64: BTI: Reset BTYPE when skipping emulated instructions

From: Catalin Marinas
Date: Tue Jan 14 2020 - 12:37:04 EST


On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 03:42:05PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> From: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@xxxxxxx>
>
> Since normal execution of any non-branch instruction resets the
> PSTATE BTYPE field to 0, so do the same thing when emulating a
> trapped instruction.
>
> Branches don't trap directly, so we should never need to assign a
> non-zero value to BTYPE here.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>