[PATCH v5 09/19] arm/arm64: KVM: make the value of ICC_SRE_EL1 a per-VM variable
Marc Zyngier
marc.zyngier at arm.com
Tue Dec 23 04:14:20 PST 2014
On Mon, Dec 08 2014 at 12:37:44 PM, Andre Przywara <andre.przywara at arm.com> wrote:
> ICC_SRE_EL1 is a system register allowing msr/mrs accesses to the
> GIC CPU interface for EL1 (guests). Currently we force it to 0, but
> for proper GICv3 support we have to allow guests to use it (depending
> on their selected virtual GIC model).
> So add ICC_SRE_EL1 to the list of saved/restored registers on a
> world switch, but actually disallow a guest to change it by only
> restoring a fixed, once-initialized value.
> This value depends on the GIC model userland has chosen for a guest.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara at arm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall at linaro.org>
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>
M.
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