[PATCH v3 27/55] KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-new: Add PRIORITY registers handlers

Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier at arm.com
Thu May 12 03:09:19 PDT 2016


On 12/05/16 10:56, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 12 May 2016 at 10:10, Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com> wrote:
>> This is wrong. We should only write the number of bits of priority we
>> actually emulate. And given that we use a common framework for v2 and
>> v3, this should probably be 5 bits (32 priorities should be enough for
>> everybody).
> 
> FWIW QEMU's GICv2 and GICv3 emulations both implement the full
> 8 bits of priority.

On GICv2, GICH_APR is only 32bit, implying that a guest can only ever
use 5 bits of priority. GICH_VTR also says that the only allowed value
for PRIbits is 32 priority levels (iow 5 bits).

Thanks,

	M.
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