The ARMv8.2-TTCNP extension allows an implementation to optimize by
sharing TLB entries between multiple cores, provided that software
declares that it's ready to deal with this by setting a CnP bit in
the TTBRn_ELx. It is mandatory from ARMv8.2 onward.
For QEMU's TLB implementation, sharing TLB entries between different
cores would not really benefit us and would be a lot of work to
implement. So we implement this extension in the "trivial" manner:
we allow the guest to set and read back the CnP bit, but don't change
our behaviour (this is an architecturally valid implementation
choice).
The only code path which looks at the TTBRn_ELx values for the
long-descriptor format where the CnP bit is defined is already doing
enough masking to not get confused when the CnP bit at the bottom of
the register is set, so we can simply add a comment noting why we're
relying on that mask.
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Message-id: 20200225193822.18874-1-peter.maydell@linaro.org
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