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Date:   Thu, 9 Apr 2020 13:53:00 +0100
From:   Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
To:     Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] arm64/cpufeature: Drop TraceFilt feature exposure
 from ID_DFR0 register
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On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 06:19:21PM +0000, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
> On 01/28/2020 12:39 PM, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> > ID_DFR0 based TraceFilt feature should not be exposed.
> 
> ... to guests.
> 
>  Hence lets drop it.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>

Hmm, doesn't dropping cause it to become NONSTRICT? In general, I'd prefer
that we list all fields in these tables, rather than have implicit behaviour
in their absence.

Will