According to the Linux kernel booting.rst [1], CPTR_EL3.ESM and SCR_EL3.EnTP2 must be initialized to 1 when EL3 is present and FEAT_SME is advertised. This has to be taken care of when QEMU boots directly into the kernel (i.e., "-M virt,secure=on -cpu max -kernel Image").
Cc: qemu-sta...@nongnu.org Fixes: 78cb9776662a ("target/arm: Enable SME for -cpu max") Link: [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/arm64/booting.rst?h=v6.0#n321 Signed-off-by: Jerome Forissier <jerome.foriss...@linaro.org> --- hw/arm/boot.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/hw/arm/boot.c b/hw/arm/boot.c index ada2717f76..ee3858b673 100644 --- a/hw/arm/boot.c +++ b/hw/arm/boot.c @@ -763,6 +763,10 @@ static void do_cpu_reset(void *opaque) if (cpu_isar_feature(aa64_sve, cpu)) { env->cp15.cptr_el[3] |= R_CPTR_EL3_EZ_MASK; } + if (cpu_isar_feature(aa64_sme, cpu)) { + env->cp15.cptr_el[3] |= R_CPTR_EL3_ESM_MASK; + env->cp15.scr_el3 |= SCR_ENTP2; + } /* AArch64 kernels never boot in secure mode */ assert(!info->secure_boot); /* This hook is only supported for AArch32 currently: -- 2.34.1