[PATCH v2 03/25] KVM: arm64: Make kvm_condition_valid32() accessible from EL2

Christoffer Dall cdall at linaro.org
Mon Jun 5 01:23:21 PDT 2017


On Mon, Jun 05, 2017 at 09:13:53AM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> On 04/06/17 13:11, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 01, 2017 at 11:20:55AM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> >> As we're about to trap CP15 accesses and handle them at EL2, we
> >> need to evaluate whether or not the condition flags are valid,
> >> as an implementation is allowed to trap despite the condition
> >> not being met.
> >>
> >> Tagging the function as __hyp_text allows this.
> > 
> > is the cc_map also guaranteed to work (by simple reference) in EL2 then?
> 
> Yes. By virtue of being const, this ends up in the read-only part of the
> kernel, which we always map at EL2.
> 

And why don't we have to do any address-translation-to-hyp tricks on the
address?  Are we guaranteed that it's a relative address and everything
is relocated with the same offset, or how was that again?

Thanks,
-Christoffer



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