[PATCH] arm/arm64: KVM: Handle traps of ICC_SRE_EL1 as RAZ/WI

Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier at arm.com
Wed Nov 19 01:39:24 PST 2014


On Wed, Nov 12 2014 at  8:01:14 pm GMT, Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall at linaro.org> wrote:

Hi Christoffer,

> When running on a system with a GICv3, we currenly don't allow the guest
> to access the system register interface of the GICv3.  We do this by
> clearing the ICC_SRE_EL2.Enable, which causes all guest accesses to
> ICC_SRE_EL1 to trap to EL2 and causes all guest accesses to other ICC_
> registers to cause an undefined exception in the guest.
>
> However, we currently don't handle the trap of guest accesses to
> ICC_SRE_EL1 and will spill out a warning.  The trap just needs to handle
> the access as RAZ/WI, and a guest that tries to prod this register and
> set ICC_SRE_EL1.SRE=1, must read back the value (which Linux already
> does) to see if it succeeded, and will thus observe that ICC_SRE_EL1.SRE
> was not set.
>
> Add the simple trap handler in the sorted table of the system registers.
>
> Tested-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall at linaro.org>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c
> index 4cc3b71..8f81945 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c
> @@ -424,6 +424,11 @@ static const struct sys_reg_desc sys_reg_descs[] = {
>  	/* VBAR_EL1 */
>  	{ Op0(0b11), Op1(0b000), CRn(0b1100), CRm(0b0000), Op2(0b000),
>  	  NULL, reset_val, VBAR_EL1, 0 },
> +
> +	/* ICC_SRE_EL1 */
> +	{ Op0(0b11), Op1(0b000), CRn(0b1100), CRm(0b1100), Op2(0b101),
> +	  trap_raz_wi },
> +
>  	/* CONTEXTIDR_EL1 */
>  	{ Op0(0b11), Op1(0b000), CRn(0b1101), CRm(0b0000), Op2(0b001),
>  	  access_vm_reg, reset_val, CONTEXTIDR_EL1, 0 },

For completeness, can you please add the equivalent trap handler for its
32bit counterpart while you're at it?

Otherwise, looks good to me.

Thanks,

	M.
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