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1.. _Arm Emulation:
2
3A-profile CPU architecture support
4==================================
5
6QEMU's TCG emulation includes support for the Armv5, Armv6, Armv7 and
7Armv8 versions of the A-profile architecture. It also has support for
8the following architecture extensions:
9
10- FEAT_AA32BF16 (AArch32 BFloat16 instructions)
11- FEAT_AA32HPD (AArch32 hierarchical permission disables)
12- FEAT_AA32I8MM (AArch32 Int8 matrix multiplication instructions)
13- FEAT_AES (AESD and AESE instructions)
14- FEAT_BBM at level 2 (Translation table break-before-make levels)
15- FEAT_BF16 (AArch64 BFloat16 instructions)
16- FEAT_BTI (Branch Target Identification)
17- FEAT_CRC32 (CRC32 instructions)
18- FEAT_CSV2 (Cache speculation variant 2)
19- FEAT_CSV2_1p1 (Cache speculation variant 2, version 1.1)
20- FEAT_CSV2_1p2 (Cache speculation variant 2, version 1.2)
21- FEAT_CSV2_2 (Cache speculation variant 2, version 2)
22- FEAT_CSV3 (Cache speculation variant 3)
23- FEAT_DGH (Data gathering hint)
24- FEAT_DIT (Data Independent Timing instructions)
25- FEAT_DPB (DC CVAP instruction)
26- FEAT_Debugv8p2 (Debug changes for v8.2)
27- FEAT_Debugv8p4 (Debug changes for v8.4)
28- FEAT_DotProd (Advanced SIMD dot product instructions)
29- FEAT_DoubleFault (Double Fault Extension)
30- FEAT_E0PD (Preventing EL0 access to halves of address maps)
31- FEAT_EPAC (Enhanced pointer authentication)
32- FEAT_ETS (Enhanced Translation Synchronization)
33- FEAT_EVT (Enhanced Virtualization Traps)
34- FEAT_FCMA (Floating-point complex number instructions)
35- FEAT_FGT (Fine-Grained Traps)
36- FEAT_FHM (Floating-point half-precision multiplication instructions)
37- FEAT_FP16 (Half-precision floating-point data processing)
38- FEAT_FPAC (Faulting on AUT* instructions)
39- FEAT_FPACCOMBINE (Faulting on combined pointer authentication instructions)
40- FEAT_FRINTTS (Floating-point to integer instructions)
41- FEAT_FlagM (Flag manipulation instructions v2)
42- FEAT_FlagM2 (Enhancements to flag manipulation instructions)
43- FEAT_GTG (Guest translation granule size)
44- FEAT_HAFDBS (Hardware management of the access flag and dirty bit state)
45- FEAT_HBC (Hinted conditional branches)
46- FEAT_HCX (Support for the HCRX_EL2 register)
47- FEAT_HPDS (Hierarchical permission disables)
48- FEAT_HPDS2 (Translation table page-based hardware attributes)
49- FEAT_HPMN0 (Setting of MDCR_EL2.HPMN to zero)
50- FEAT_I8MM (AArch64 Int8 matrix multiplication instructions)
51- FEAT_IDST (ID space trap handling)
52- FEAT_IESB (Implicit error synchronization event)
53- FEAT_JSCVT (JavaScript conversion instructions)
54- FEAT_LOR (Limited ordering regions)
55- FEAT_LPA (Large Physical Address space)
56- FEAT_LPA2 (Large Physical and virtual Address space v2)
57- FEAT_LRCPC (Load-acquire RCpc instructions)
58- FEAT_LRCPC2 (Load-acquire RCpc instructions v2)
59- FEAT_LSE (Large System Extensions)
60- FEAT_LSE2 (Large System Extensions v2)
61- FEAT_LVA (Large Virtual Address space)
62- FEAT_MOPS (Standardization of memory operations)
63- FEAT_MTE (Memory Tagging Extension)
64- FEAT_MTE2 (Memory Tagging Extension)
65- FEAT_MTE3 (MTE Asymmetric Fault Handling)
66- FEAT_NV (Nested Virtualization)
67- FEAT_NV2 (Enhanced nested virtualization support)
68- FEAT_PACIMP (Pointer authentication - IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED algorithm)
69- FEAT_PACQARMA3 (Pointer authentication - QARMA3 algorithm)
70- FEAT_PACQARMA5 (Pointer authentication - QARMA5 algorithm)
71- FEAT_PAN (Privileged access never)
72- FEAT_PAN2 (AT S1E1R and AT S1E1W instruction variants affected by PSTATE.PAN)
73- FEAT_PAN3 (Support for SCTLR_ELx.EPAN)
74- FEAT_PAuth (Pointer authentication)
75- FEAT_PAuth2 (Enhancements to pointer authentication)
76- FEAT_PMULL (PMULL, PMULL2 instructions)
77- FEAT_PMUv3p1 (PMU Extensions v3.1)
78- FEAT_PMUv3p4 (PMU Extensions v3.4)
79- FEAT_PMUv3p5 (PMU Extensions v3.5)
80- FEAT_RAS (Reliability, availability, and serviceability)
81- FEAT_RASv1p1 (RAS Extension v1.1)
82- FEAT_RDM (Advanced SIMD rounding double multiply accumulate instructions)
83- FEAT_RME (Realm Management Extension) (NB: support status in QEMU is experimental)
84- FEAT_RNG (Random number generator)
85- FEAT_S2FWB (Stage 2 forced Write-Back)
86- FEAT_SB (Speculation Barrier)
87- FEAT_SEL2 (Secure EL2)
88- FEAT_SHA1 (SHA1 instructions)
89- FEAT_SHA256 (SHA256 instructions)
90- FEAT_SHA3 (Advanced SIMD SHA3 instructions)
91- FEAT_SHA512 (Advanced SIMD SHA512 instructions)
92- FEAT_SM3 (Advanced SIMD SM3 instructions)
93- FEAT_SM4 (Advanced SIMD SM4 instructions)
94- FEAT_SME (Scalable Matrix Extension)
95- FEAT_SME_FA64 (Full A64 instruction set in Streaming SVE mode)
96- FEAT_SME_F64F64 (Double-precision floating-point outer product instructions)
97- FEAT_SME_I16I64 (16-bit to 64-bit integer widening outer product instructions)
98- FEAT_SPECRES (Speculation restriction instructions)
99- FEAT_SSBS (Speculative Store Bypass Safe)
100- FEAT_TIDCP1 (EL0 use of IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED functionality)
101- FEAT_TLBIOS (TLB invalidate instructions in Outer Shareable domain)
102- FEAT_TLBIRANGE (TLB invalidate range instructions)
103- FEAT_TTCNP (Translation table Common not private translations)
104- FEAT_TTL (Translation Table Level)
105- FEAT_TTST (Small translation tables)
106- FEAT_UAO (Unprivileged Access Override control)
107- FEAT_VHE (Virtualization Host Extensions)
108- FEAT_VMID16 (16-bit VMID)
109- FEAT_XNX (Translation table stage 2 Unprivileged Execute-never)
110- SVE (The Scalable Vector Extension)
111- SVE2 (The Scalable Vector Extension v2)
112
113For information on the specifics of these extensions, please refer
114to the `Armv8-A Arm Architecture Reference Manual
115<https://developer.arm.com/documentation/ddi0487/latest>`_.
116
117When a specific named CPU is being emulated, only those features which
118are present in hardware for that CPU are emulated. (If a feature is
119not in the list above then it is not supported, even if the real
120hardware should have it.) The ``max`` CPU enables all features.
121
122R-profile CPU architecture support
123==================================
124
125QEMU's TCG emulation support for R-profile CPUs is currently limited.
126We emulate only the Cortex-R5 and Cortex-R5F CPUs.
127
128M-profile CPU architecture support
129==================================
130
131QEMU's TCG emulation includes support for Armv6-M, Armv7-M, Armv8-M, and
132Armv8.1-M versions of the M-profile architucture.  It also has support
133for the following architecture extensions:
134
135- FP (Floating-point Extension)
136- FPCXT (FPCXT access instructions)
137- HP (Half-precision floating-point instructions)
138- LOB (Low Overhead loops and Branch future)
139- M (Main Extension)
140- MPU (Memory Protection Unit Extension)
141- PXN (Privileged Execute Never)
142- RAS (Reliability, Serviceability and Availability): "minimum RAS Extension" only
143- S (Security Extension)
144- ST (System Timer Extension)
145
146For information on the specifics of these extensions, please refer
147to the `Armv8-M Arm Architecture Reference Manual
148<https://developer.arm.com/documentation/ddi0553/latest>`_.
149
150When a specific named CPU is being emulated, only those features which
151are present in hardware for that CPU are emulated. (If a feature is
152not in the list above then it is not supported, even if the real
153hardware should have it.) There is no equivalent of the ``max`` CPU for
154M-profile.
155