[PATCH v4 33/40] KVM: arm64: Configure c15, PMU, and debug register traps on cpu load/put for VHE
Andrew Jones
drjones at redhat.com
Thu Feb 22 07:51:02 PST 2018
On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 10:03:25PM +0100, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> We do not have to change the c15 trap setting on each switch to/from the
> guest on VHE systems, because this setting only affects EL0.
>
> The PMU and debug trap configuration can also be done on vcpu load/put
> instead, because they don't affect how the host kernel can access the
> debug registers while executing KVM kernel code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall at linaro.org>
> ---
> arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_hyp.h | 3 +++
> arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/switch.c | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++++---------
> arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/sysreg-sr.c | 4 ++++
> 3 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
The last patch 32/40 probably should have been closer to 13/40 in
this series. That would allow this patch to directly follow it's
preparatory patch 31/40, but I'm just whiny reviewer...
Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones <drjones at redhat.com>
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