hw/arm/virt: Enable MTE via a machine property

Control this cpu feature via a machine property, much as we do
with secure=on, since both require specialized support in the
machine setup to be functional.

Default MTE to off, since this feature implies extra overhead.

Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Message-id: 20200713213341.590275-2-richard.henderson@linaro.org
Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/target/arm/cpu64.c b/target/arm/cpu64.c
index 15494002d2..dd696183df 100644
--- a/target/arm/cpu64.c
+++ b/target/arm/cpu64.c
@@ -646,8 +646,9 @@ static void aarch64_max_initfn(Object *obj)
         t = cpu->isar.id_aa64pfr1;
         t = FIELD_DP64(t, ID_AA64PFR1, BT, 1);
         /*
-         * Begin with full support for MTE; will be downgraded to MTE=1
-         * during realize if the board provides no tag memory.
+         * Begin with full support for MTE. This will be downgraded to MTE=0
+         * during realize if the board provides no tag memory, much like
+         * we do for EL2 with the virtualization=on property.
          */
         t = FIELD_DP64(t, ID_AA64PFR1, MTE, 2);
         cpu->isar.id_aa64pfr1 = t;