arm64: cpufeature: Extend comment to describe absence of field info (433022b5) · Commits · 戴 / test

When a feature register field is omitted from the description of the register, the corresponding bits are treated as STRICT RES0, including for KVM guests. This is subtly different to declaring the field as HIDDEN/STRICT/EXACT/0, so update the comment to call this out. Signed-off-by:

Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>

arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c

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		@@ -53,6 +53,11 @@
		* arbitrary physical CPUs, but some features not present on the host are
		* also advertised and emulated. Look at sys_reg_descs[] for the gory
		* details.
		*
		* - If the arm64_ftr_bits[] for a register has a missing field, then this
		* field is treated as STRICT RES0, including for read_sanitised_ftr_reg().
		* This is stronger than FTR_HIDDEN and can be used to hide features from
		* KVM guests.
		*/

		#define pr_fmt(fmt) "CPU features: " fmt

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