[PATCH v5 08/12] KVM: arm64: re-factor hyp.S debug register code
Christoffer Dall
christoffer.dall at linaro.org
Thu Jun 4 04:12:48 PDT 2015
On Thu, Jun 04, 2015 at 11:34:46AM +0100, Alex Bennée wrote:
>
> Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall at linaro.org> writes:
>
> > On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 10:30:24AM +0100, Alex Bennée wrote:
> >> This is a pre-cursor to sharing the code with the guest debug support.
> >> This replaces the big macro that fishes data out of a fixed location
> >> with a more general helper macro to restore a set of debug registers. It
> >> uses macro substitution so it can be re-used for debug control and value
> >> registers. It does however rely on the debug registers being 64 bit
> >> aligned (as they happen to be in the hyp ABI).
>
> Oops I'd better fix that commit comment.
>
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee at linaro.org>
> >>
> >> ---
> >> v3:
> >> - return to the patch series
> >> - add save and restore targets
> >> - change register use and document
> >> v4:
> >> - keep original setup/restore names
> >> - don't use split u32/u64 structure yet
> >> ---
> >> arch/arm64/kvm/hyp.S | 519 ++++++++++++++-------------------------------------
> >> 1 file changed, 140 insertions(+), 379 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp.S b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp.S
> >> index 74e63d8..9c4897d 100644
> >> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp.S
> >> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp.S
> >
> >
> > [...]
> >
> >> @@ -465,195 +318,52 @@
> >> msr mdscr_el1, x25
> >> .endm
> >>
> >> -.macro restore_debug
> >> - // x2: base address for cpu context
> >> - // x3: tmp register
> >> -
> >> - mrs x26, id_aa64dfr0_el1
> >> - ubfx x24, x26, #12, #4 // Extract BRPs
> >> - ubfx x25, x26, #20, #4 // Extract WRPs
> >> - mov w26, #15
> >> - sub w24, w26, w24 // How many BPs to skip
> >> - sub w25, w26, w25 // How many WPs to skip
> >> -
> >> - add x3, x2, #CPU_SYSREG_OFFSET(DBGBCR0_EL1)
> >> +.macro restore_debug type
> >> + // x4: pointer to register set
> >> + // x5: number of registers to skip
> >
> > nit: use tabs instead of spaces here...
> >
> >> + // x6..x22 trashed
> >>
> >
> > [...]
> >
> >> @@ -887,12 +597,63 @@ __restore_sysregs:
> >> restore_sysregs
> >> ret
> >>
> >> +/* Save debug state */
> >> __save_debug:
> >> - save_debug
> >> + // x0: base address for vcpu context
> >> + // x2: ptr to current CPU context
> >> + // x4/x5: trashed
> >
> > I had a bunch of questions here which I think you missed last time
> > around:
> > 1. why do we need the vcpu context?
>
> We don't, I'll drop that
>
> > 2. what does 'current' mean here?
>
> Either the host or vcpu context depending which way we are currently going.
>
drop 'current' please.
> > 3. you're also trashing everything that save_debug trashes, so x4/5,
> > x6-x22 trashed would be more correct
>
> OK
>
> >
> >> +
> >> + mrs x26, id_aa64dfr0_el1
> >> + ubfx x24, x26, #12, #4 // Extract BRPs
> >> + ubfx x25, x26, #20, #4 // Extract WRPs
> >> + mov w26, #15
> >> + sub w24, w26, w24 // How many BPs to skip
> >> + sub w25, w26, w25 // How many WPs to skip
> >> +
> >> + mov x5, x24
> >> + add x4, x2, #CPU_SYSREG_OFFSET(DBGBCR0_EL1)
> >> + save_debug dbgbcr
> >> + add x4, x2, #CPU_SYSREG_OFFSET(DBGBVR0_EL1)
> >> + save_debug dbgbvr
> >> +
> >> + mov x5, x25
> >> + add x4, x2, #CPU_SYSREG_OFFSET(DBGWCR0_EL1)
> >> + save_debug dbgwcr
> >> + add x4, x2, #CPU_SYSREG_OFFSET(DBGWVR0_EL1)
> >> + save_debug dbgwvr
> >> +
> >> + mrs x21, mdccint_el1
> >> + str x21, [x2, #CPU_SYSREG_OFFSET(MDCCINT_EL1)]
> >> ret
> >>
> >> +/* Restore debug state */
> >> __restore_debug:
> >> - restore_debug
> >> + // x0: base address for cpu context
> >> + // x2: ptr to current CPU context
> >> + // x4/x5: trashed
> >
> > and you missed these comments too, basically same stuff, but why was it
> > 'cpu' here and not 'vcpu' like above?
>
> Again we use the functions both for restoring host and vcpu debug context.
>
Well, the two functions operate on the same structures, so I would like
them to be consistent...
-Christoffer
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