[PATCH 2/3] arm64: KVM: Allow unaligned accesses at EL2

[Marc Zyngier]

On 06/06/17 21:09, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 07:08:34PM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>> We currently have the SCTLR_EL2.A bit set, trapping unaligned accesses
>> at EL2, but we're not really prepared to deal with it. So far, this
>> has been unnoticed, until GCC 7 started emitting those (in particular
>> 64bit writes on a 32bit boundary).
>>
>> Since the rest of the kernel is pretty happy about that, let's follow
>> its example and set SCTLR_EL2.A to zero. Modern CPUs don't really
>> care.
> 
> Why do we set the A flag via SCTLR_ELx_FLAGS in the first place, only to
> drop that flag later on for both EL1 and EL2 ?

That flag is always cleared at EL1, never set. Actually, only EL2 uses
that macro to *set* flags. An alternative would be to do away with the
macro and use the individual flags, like the 32bit side does.

What do you think?

	M.
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