[PATCH v3 5/7] ARM: KVM: don't special case PC when doing an MMIO
Christoffer Dall
cdall at cs.columbia.edu
Mon May 27 22:11:57 EDT 2013
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 12:11:38PM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> Admitedly, reading a MMIO register to load PC is very weird.
> Writing PC to a MMIO register is probably even worse. But
> the architecture doesn't forbid any of these, and injecting
> a Prefetch Abort is the wrong thing to do anyway.
>
> Remove this check altogether, and let the adventurous guest
> wander into LaLaLand if they feel compelled to do so.
>
> Reported-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>
> ---
> arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_emulate.h | 5 -----
> arch/arm/kvm/mmio.c | 6 ------
> 2 files changed, 11 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_emulate.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_emulate.h
> index 82b4bab..a464e8d 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_emulate.h
> +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_emulate.h
> @@ -65,11 +65,6 @@ static inline bool vcpu_mode_priv(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> return cpsr_mode > USR_MODE;;
> }
>
> -static inline bool kvm_vcpu_reg_is_pc(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int reg)
> -{
> - return reg == 15;
> -}
> -
> static inline u32 kvm_vcpu_get_hsr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> {
> return vcpu->arch.fault.hsr;
> 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;
> - }
> -
> mmio->is_write = is_write;
> mmio->phys_addr = fault_ipa;
> mmio->len = len;
> --
> 1.8.2.3
>
>
Applied, thanks.
-Christoffer
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