[PATCH] ARM: KVM: Handle loads from I/O addresses to PC
Catalin Marinas
catalin.marinas at arm.com
Mon May 13 05:18:31 EDT 2013
On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 07:58:55PM +0100, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> If a VM does something like this:
>
> ldr pc, [r0] @ r0 is an I/O address
>
> Then simply let that value load into the PC on kvm_handle_mmio_return
> overwriting the PC value set from kvm_skip_instr.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <cdall at cs.columbia.edu>
> ---
> arch/arm/kvm/mmio.c | 6 ------
> 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/kvm/mmio.c b/arch/arm/kvm/mmio.c
> index 72a12f2..b8e06b7 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/kvm/mmio.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/kvm/mmio.c
> @@ -86,12 +86,6 @@ static int decode_hsr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, phys_addr_t fault_ipa,
> sign_extend = kvm_vcpu_dabt_issext(vcpu);
> rt = kvm_vcpu_dabt_get_rd(vcpu);
>
> - if (kvm_vcpu_reg_is_pc(vcpu, rt)) {
> - /* IO memory trying to read/write pc */
> - kvm_inject_pabt(vcpu, kvm_vcpu_get_hfar(vcpu));
> - return 1;
I haven't checked Marc's patch yet but I would get rid of
kvm_vcpu_reg_is_pc() as well, that's the only place where it is used.
--
Catalin
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