[PATCH v3 3/3] kvm: arm64: handle single-step of userspace mmio instructions
Julien Thierry
julien.thierry at arm.com
Thu Nov 16 09:44:02 PST 2017
On 16/11/17 15:39, Alex Bennée wrote:
> The system state of KVM when using userspace emulation is not complete
> until we return into KVM_RUN. To handle mmio related updates we wait
> until they have been committed and then schedule our KVM_EXIT_DEBUG.
>
> The kvm_arm_handle_step_debug() helper tells us if we need to return
> and sets up the exit_reason for us.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee at linaro.org>
>
Reviewed-by: Julien Thierry <julien.thierry at arm.com>
> ---
> v2
> - call helper directly from kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run
> v3
> - return 0 (ioctl success) instead of 1
> ---
> virt/kvm/arm/arm.c | 3 +++
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/arm.c b/virt/kvm/arm/arm.c
> index 95cba0799828..b40440defca1 100644
> --- a/virt/kvm/arm/arm.c
> +++ b/virt/kvm/arm/arm.c
> @@ -625,6 +625,9 @@ int kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_run *run)
> ret = kvm_handle_mmio_return(vcpu, vcpu->run);
> if (ret)
> return ret;
> + if (kvm_arm_handle_step_debug(vcpu, vcpu->run))
> + return 0;
> +
> }
>
> if (run->immediate_exit)
>
--
Julien Thierry
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