[PATCH v2 0/9] arm64: KVM: debug infrastructure support

Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier at arm.com
Tue May 20 09:55:36 PDT 2014


This patch series adds debug support, a key feature missing from the
KVM/arm64 port.

The main idea is to keep track of whether the debug registers are
"dirty" (changed by the guest) or not. In this case, perform the usual
save/restore dance, for one run only. It means we only have a penalty
if a guest is actively using the debug registers.

The amount of registers is properly frightening, but CPUs actually
only implement a subset of them. Also, there is a number of registers
we don't bother emulating (things having to do with external debug and
OSlock).

This has been tested on a Cortex-A53/A57 platform, running both 32 and
64bit guests, on top of 3.15-rc4. This code also lives in my tree in
the kvm-arm64/debug-trap branch.

>From v1 [1]:
- Renamed trap_wi_raz to trap_raz_wi
- Renamed skip_clean_debug_state to skip_debug_state
- Simplified debug state computing, moved to its own macro
- Added some comment to make the logic more obvious

[1]: https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/pipermail/kvmarm/2014-May/009332.html

Marc Zyngier (9):
  arm64: KVM: rename pm_fake handler to trap_raz_wi
  arm64: move DBG_MDSCR_* to asm/debug-monitors.h
  arm64: KVM: add trap handlers for AArch64 debug registers
  arm64: KVM: common infrastructure for handling AArch32 CP14/CP15
  arm64: KVM: use separate tables for AArch32 32 and 64bit traps
  arm64: KVM: check ordering of all system register tables
  arm64: KVM: add trap handlers for AArch32 debug registers
  arm64: KVM: implement lazy world switch for debug registers
  arm64: KVM: enable trapping of all debug registers

 arch/arm64/include/asm/debug-monitors.h |  19 +-
 arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_asm.h        |  39 ++-
 arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_coproc.h     |   3 +-
 arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h       |  12 +-
 arch/arm64/kernel/asm-offsets.c         |   1 +
 arch/arm64/kernel/debug-monitors.c      |   9 -
 arch/arm64/kvm/handle_exit.c            |   4 +-
 arch/arm64/kvm/hyp.S                    | 470 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c               | 494 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 9 files changed, 953 insertions(+), 98 deletions(-)

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