The ARMv8 architecture defines that an AArch32 CPU starts
in SVC mode, unless EL2 is the highest available EL, in
which case it starts in Hyp mode. (In ARMv7 a CPU with EL2
but not EL3 was not a valid configuration, but we don't
specifically reject this if the user asks for one.)

Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20180823135047.16525-1-peter.maydell@linaro.org
---
 target/arm/cpu.c | 14 ++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/target/arm/cpu.c b/target/arm/cpu.c
index 258ba6dcaad..b5e61cc1775 100644
--- a/target/arm/cpu.c
+++ b/target/arm/cpu.c
@@ -199,8 +199,18 @@ static void arm_cpu_reset(CPUState *s)
         env->cp15.c15_cpar = 1;
     }
 #else
-    /* SVC mode with interrupts disabled.  */
-    env->uncached_cpsr = ARM_CPU_MODE_SVC;
+
+    /*
+     * If the highest available EL is EL2, AArch32 will start in Hyp
+     * mode; otherwise it starts in SVC. Note that if we start in
+     * AArch64 then these values in the uncached_cpsr will be ignored.
+     */
+    if (arm_feature(env, ARM_FEATURE_EL2) &&
+        !arm_feature(env, ARM_FEATURE_EL3)) {
+        env->uncached_cpsr = ARM_CPU_MODE_HYP;
+    } else {
+        env->uncached_cpsr = ARM_CPU_MODE_SVC;
+    }
     env->daif = PSTATE_D | PSTATE_A | PSTATE_I | PSTATE_F;
 
     if (arm_feature(env, ARM_FEATURE_M)) {
-- 
2.19.0