[PATCH v6 13/15] KVM: ARM: Handle I/O aborts
Christoffer Dall
c.dall at virtualopensystems.com
Thu Jan 17 12:07:40 EST 2013
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 11:37 AM, Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com> wrote:
> On 16/01/13 17:59, Christoffer Dall wrote:
>> When the guest accesses I/O memory this will create data abort
>> exceptions and they are handled by decoding the HSR information
>> (physical address, read/write, length, register) and forwarding reads
>> and writes to QEMU which performs the device emulation.
>>
>> Certain classes of load/store operations do not support the syndrome
>> information provided in the HSR. We don't support decoding these (patches
>> are available elsewhere), so we report an error to user space in this case.
>>
>> This requires changing the general flow somewhat since new calls to run
>> the VCPU must check if there's a pending MMIO load and perform the write
>> after userspace has made the data available.
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti at redhat.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty at rustcorp.com.au>
>> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <c.dall at virtualopensystems.com>
>
> [...]
>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm/kvm/interrupts.S b/arch/arm/kvm/interrupts.S
>> index 04a9705..702743e 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm/kvm/interrupts.S
>> +++ b/arch/arm/kvm/interrupts.S
>> @@ -192,6 +192,44 @@ after_vfp_restore:
>> mov r0, r1 @ Return the return code
>> bx lr @ return to IOCTL
>>
>> +
>> +/********************************************************************
>> + * Translate VA to PA
>> + *
>> + * u64 __kvm_va_to_pa(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u32 va, bool priv)
>> + *
>> + * Arguments:
>> + * r0: pointer to vcpu struct
>> + * r1: virtual address to map (rounded to page)
>> + * r2: 1 = P1 (read) mapping, 0 = P0 (read) mapping.
>> + * Returns 64 bit PAR value.
>> + */
>> +ENTRY(__kvm_va_to_pa)
>> + push {r4-r12}
>> +
>> + @ Fold flag into r1, easier than using stack.
>> + cmp r2, #0
>> + movne r2, #1
>> + orr r1, r1, r2
>> +
>> + @ This swaps too many registers, but we're in the slow path anyway.
>> + read_cp15_state store_to_vcpu = 0
>> + write_cp15_state read_from_vcpu = 1
>> +
>> + ands r2, r1, #1
>> + bic r1, r1, r2
>> + mcrne p15, 0, r1, c7, c8, 0 @ VA to PA, ATS1CPR
>> + mcreq p15, 0, r1, c7, c8, 2 @ VA to PA, ATS1CUR
>> + isb
>> +
>> + @ Restore host state.
>> + read_cp15_state store_to_vcpu = 1
>> + write_cp15_state read_from_vcpu = 0
>> +
>> + mrrc p15, 0, r0, r1, c7 @ PAR
>> + pop {r4-r12}
>> + bx lr
>> +
>
> Do we still need this function? Now that the MMIO emulation is gone,
> there should be no need to perform a manual translation.
>
> I can't even find a caller for it either.
>
I'm trying to leave bits and pieces of the emulation code in here in
hope that it will spawn itself into a glorious unified solution that
decodes everything and that everybody will be happy with :)
I'll remove it. Thanks.
-Christoffer
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