Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] target-arm: Add MDCR_EL2

[Sergey Fedorov]

On 29.09.2015 20:19, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 29 September 2015 at 18:14, Sergey Fedorov <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On 29.09.2015 12:33, Peter Maydell wrote:
>>> On 28 September 2015 at 11:37, Sergey Fedorov <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> This field should be named mdcr_el2 if we have it, but:
>>> the reset value for this register is defined architecturally,
>>> so we don't need to specify it per CPU. (It's "all 0s, except
>>> the bottom field resets to the same value as PMCR.N". Strictly
>>> speaking some fields are defined to be architecturally
>>> unknown and so might differ per CPU, but only in ways which
>>> a guest doesn't care about. We typically model these in
>>> the same way for all guest CPUs in QEMU.)
>>>
>> We reset PMCR_EL0 to cpu->midr & 0xff000000. So if we want to reset
>> MDCR_EL2.N with PMCR_EL0.N we should reset PMCR_EL0.N to the proper
>> value somehow first. I think we could reset PMCR_EL0 with its own reset
>> value from a dedicated ARMCPU structure field independent from MIDR_EL1
>> reset value. This makes sense considering that most of PMCR_EL0's fields
>> are RO/UNKNOWN. What do you think?
> At the moment we don't implement any perf counters except
> the cycle counter, so I think PMCR_EL0.N is already being
> reset to the proper value...

Seems like I should just simply use zero as a reset value for MDCR_EL2
register :)