Re: [PATCH 8/8] arm64: cpufeature: Add an overview comment for the cpufeature framework

[Marc Zyngier]

On 2020-04-16 15:59, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:

Hi Suzuki,

[...]

> As you mentioned in the other response we could add information about
> the guest view, something like :
>
>       - KVM exposes the sanitised value of the feature registers to the
> 	guests and is not affected by the FTR_VISIBLE. However,
> 	depending on the individual feature support in the hypervisor,
> 	some of the fields may be capped/limited.

Although in most cases, what KVM exposes is indeed a strict subset of
the host's features, there is a few corner cases where we expose 
features
that do not necessarily exist on the host. For example ARMv8.5-GTG and
ARMv8.4-TTL get exposed by the NV patches even if they don't exist on 
the
host, as KVM will actually emulate them.

Not a big deal, but I just wanted to outline that it isn't as clear-cut 
as
it may seem...

Thanks,

        M.
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