[PATCH] arm64: KVM: Support Cortex-A57 guest CPU on APM X-Gene host

Peter Maydell peter.maydell at linaro.org
Wed Jul 3 06:54:03 EDT 2013


On 3 July 2013 09:42, Anup Patel <anup.patel at linaro.org> wrote:
> Update kvm_target_cpu() to allow Cortex-A57 guest CPU on APM X-Gene.
>
> Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <anup.patel at linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Pranavkumar Sawargaonkar <pranavkumar at linaro.org>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/kvm/guest.c |   10 ++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/guest.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/guest.c
> index 2c3ff67..765f56f 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/guest.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/guest.c
> @@ -207,8 +207,13 @@ int __attribute_const__ kvm_target_cpu(void)
>         unsigned long implementor = read_cpuid_implementor();
>         unsigned long part_number = read_cpuid_part_number();
>
> -       if (implementor != ARM_CPU_IMP_ARM)
> -               return -EINVAL;
> +       switch (implementor) {
> +       case ARM_CPU_IMP_ARM:
> +       case ARM_CPU_IMP_APM:
> +               break;
> +       default:
> +               return -EINVAL;
> +       }

Doesn't this change mean we now accept the below part
numbers for all implementors? That doesn't look right.

>         switch (part_number) {
>         case ARM_CPU_PART_AEM_V8:
> @@ -216,6 +221,7 @@ int __attribute_const__ kvm_target_cpu(void)
>         case ARM_CPU_PART_FOUNDATION:
>                 return KVM_ARM_TARGET_FOUNDATION_V8;
>         case ARM_CPU_PART_CORTEX_A57:
> +       case APM_CPU_PART_POTENZA:
>                 /* Currently handled by the generic backend */
>                 return KVM_ARM_TARGET_CORTEX_A57;
>         default:

Do we really model all the system registers and so on correctly
sufficiently to be able to present the guest with an A57 vcpu
on an APM X-Gene host? (ie without accidentally leaking the
host ID registers/system registers/impdef registers to the
guest).

thanks
-- PMM



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