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authorRichard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>2024-02-15 11:30:44 +0000
committerPeter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>2024-02-15 11:30:44 +0000
commit681dfc0d552963d4d598350d26097a692900b408 (patch)
treed6a0040dabea49a042b010610c6e455f91b1227e
parent68a5827b80117973714455c5aa16063ad1ffacb9 (diff)
linux-user/aarch64: Choose SYNC as the preferred MTE mode
The API does not generate an error for setting ASYNC | SYNC; that merely constrains the selection vs the per-cpu default. For qemu linux-user, choose SYNC as the default. Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org Reported-by: Gustavo Romero <gustavo.romero@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org> Tested-by: Gustavo Romero <gustavo.romero@linaro.org> Message-id: 20240207025210.8837-2-richard.henderson@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
-rw-r--r--linux-user/aarch64/target_prctl.h29
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/linux-user/aarch64/target_prctl.h b/linux-user/aarch64/target_prctl.h
index 5067e7d731..aa8e203c15 100644
--- a/linux-user/aarch64/target_prctl.h
+++ b/linux-user/aarch64/target_prctl.h
@@ -173,21 +173,26 @@ static abi_long do_prctl_set_tagged_addr_ctrl(CPUArchState *env, abi_long arg2)
env->tagged_addr_enable = arg2 & PR_TAGGED_ADDR_ENABLE;
if (cpu_isar_feature(aa64_mte, cpu)) {
- switch (arg2 & PR_MTE_TCF_MASK) {
- case PR_MTE_TCF_NONE:
- case PR_MTE_TCF_SYNC:
- case PR_MTE_TCF_ASYNC:
- break;
- default:
- return -EINVAL;
- }
-
/*
* Write PR_MTE_TCF to SCTLR_EL1[TCF0].
- * Note that the syscall values are consistent with hw.
+ *
+ * The kernel has a per-cpu configuration for the sysadmin,
+ * /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu<N>/mte_tcf_preferred,
+ * which qemu does not implement.
+ *
+ * Because there is no performance difference between the modes, and
+ * because SYNC is most useful for debugging MTE errors, choose SYNC
+ * as the preferred mode. With this preference, and the way the API
+ * uses only two bits, there is no way for the program to select
+ * ASYMM mode.
*/
- env->cp15.sctlr_el[1] =
- deposit64(env->cp15.sctlr_el[1], 38, 2, arg2 >> PR_MTE_TCF_SHIFT);
+ unsigned tcf = 0;
+ if (arg2 & PR_MTE_TCF_SYNC) {
+ tcf = 1;
+ } else if (arg2 & PR_MTE_TCF_ASYNC) {
+ tcf = 2;
+ }
+ env->cp15.sctlr_el[1] = deposit64(env->cp15.sctlr_el[1], 38, 2, tcf);
/*
* Write PR_MTE_TAG to GCR_EL1[Exclude].