[PATCH 0/3] arm64:msr: Add MSR driver
Marc Zyngier
maz at kernel.org
Tue Dec 1 03:12:30 EST 2020
On 2020-12-01 03:09, wangrongwei wrote:
> Hi
> We have validate this driver in vm and physical machine, and works
> fine.
But what does "work fine" mean? None of these system registers are
supposed
to be accessible from userspace, so please explain *what* you are trying
to
do with this, other that introducing security holes and general system
instability?
> Actually, we used existing interfaces to realize this driver, likes
> aarch64_insn_read and aarch64_insn_patch_text.
Sure. At that stage, you could also directly expose the linear mapping
to
userspace and start writing to it, it would probably be a fitting
addition...
> These existing intefaces had validated a CPU.
If CPU validation is your goal, I suggest this is kept out of tree, as
the
kernel is hardly a validation tool for the arm64 architecture.
Thanks,
M.
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