[PATCH v4 26/40] KVM: arm/arm64: Prepare to handle deferred save/restore of SPSR_EL1
Andrew Jones
drjones at redhat.com
Thu Feb 22 05:49:04 PST 2018
On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 10:03:18PM +0100, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> SPSR_EL1 is not used by a VHE host kernel and can be deferred, but we
> need to rework the accesses to this register to access the latest value
> depending on whether or not guest system registers are loaded on the CPU
> or only reside in memory.
>
> The handling of accessing the various banked SPSRs for 32-bit VMs is a
> bit clunky, but this will be improved in following patches which will
> first prepare and subsequently implement deferred save/restore of the
> 32-bit registers, including the 32-bit SPSRs.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall at linaro.org>
> ---
>
> Notes:
> Changes since v2:
> - New patch (deferred register handling has been reworked)
>
> arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_emulate.h | 12 ++++++++++-
> arch/arm/kvm/emulate.c | 2 +-
> arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_emulate.h | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
> arch/arm64/kvm/inject_fault.c | 4 ++--
> virt/kvm/arm/aarch32.c | 2 +-
> 5 files changed, 51 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones <drjones at redhat.com>
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