Disabling SVE via `-cpu max,sve=off` leaves SVE2 advertised by `getauxval` Description of problem: The documentation on https://qemu-project.gitlab.io/qemu/system/arm/cpu-features.html suggests that it should be possible to disable SVE support by passing `-cpu max,sve=off` on the command line, however this appears to only disable the SVE support advertised in the return value from `getauxval(AT_HWCAP)`. In particular it leaves SVE2 reported as enabled. This leaves the feature set advertised by `getauxval` in an inconsistent state since SVE is mandatory if SVE2 is available. This may also affect other feature dependencies for example FEAT_SVE_BITPerm also requiring SVE2 to be available, I've not checked exhaustively. For example, given the following code: #include #include int main() { unsigned long hwcap = getauxval(AT_HWCAP); unsigned long hwcap2 = getauxval(AT_HWCAP2); if (hwcap & HWCAP_SVE) { printf("have sve!\n"); } else { printf("don't have sve!\n"); } if (hwcap2 & HWCAP2_SVE2) { printf("have sve2!\n"); } else { printf("don't have sve2!\n"); } } We can observe the following: $ aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc test.c -static $ ../qemu-aarch64 -cpu max ./a.out have sve! have sve2! $ ../qemu-aarch64 -cpu max,sve=off ./a.out don't have sve! have sve2! I don't believe that there is a `-cpu ...,sve2=off` option, so I would expect that disabling SVE also prevents SVE2 from being advertised as available.