[PATCH v2 17/17] arm64: KVM: vgic-v3: Do not save ICH_AP0Rn_EL2 for GICv2 emulation
Christoffer Dall
christoffer.dall at linaro.org
Thu Mar 3 11:21:54 PST 2016
On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 04:40:49PM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> The GICv3 specification mandates that ICH_AP0Rn_EL2 are set to
> zero when running guests that use the memory mapped registers.
>
> This is fine, as we initialize all ICH_AP0Rn_EL2 registers to
> zero, and restore them on entry. But it also means that we
> do not need to save these registers on exit. Profit!
>
> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>
> ---
> arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/vgic-v3-sr.c | 19 +++++++++++--------
> 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/vgic-v3-sr.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/vgic-v3-sr.c
> index 5f12c57..c2f173d 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/vgic-v3-sr.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/vgic-v3-sr.c
> @@ -202,14 +202,17 @@ void __hyp_text __vgic_v3_save_state(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> __gic_v3_set_lr(0, i);
> }
>
> - switch (nr_pri_bits) {
> - case 7:
> - cpu_if->vgic_ap0r[3] = read_gicreg(ICH_AP0R3_EL2);
> - cpu_if->vgic_ap0r[2] = read_gicreg(ICH_AP0R2_EL2);
> - case 6:
> - cpu_if->vgic_ap0r[1] = read_gicreg(ICH_AP0R1_EL2);
> - default:
> - cpu_if->vgic_ap0r[0] = read_gicreg(ICH_AP0R0_EL2);
> + /* ICH_AP0Rn is only valid for SRE==1 */
> + if (cpu_if->vgic_sre & ICC_SRE_EL1_SRE) {
> + switch (nr_pri_bits) {
> + case 7:
> + cpu_if->vgic_ap0r[3] = read_gicreg(ICH_AP0R3_EL2);
> + cpu_if->vgic_ap0r[2] = read_gicreg(ICH_AP0R2_EL2);
> + case 6:
> + cpu_if->vgic_ap0r[1] = read_gicreg(ICH_AP0R1_EL2);
> + default:
> + cpu_if->vgic_ap0r[0] = read_gicreg(ICH_AP0R0_EL2);
> + }
> }
>
> switch (nr_pri_bits) {
> --
> 2.1.4
>
Acked-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall at linaro.org>
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