[PATCH v7 06/23] arm64: Drop early setting of MDSCR_EL2.TPMS

Marc Zyngier maz at kernel.org
Mon Feb 8 04:57:15 EST 2021


When running VHE, we set MDSCR_EL2.TPMS very early on to force
the trapping of EL1 SPE accesses to EL2.

However:
- we are running with HCR_EL2.{E2H,TGE}={1,1}, meaning that there
  is no EL1 to trap from

- before entering a guest, we call kvm_arm_setup_debug(), which
  sets MDCR_EL2_TPMS in the per-vcpu shadow mdscr_el2, which gets
  applied on entry by __activate_traps_common().

The early setting of MDSCR_EL2.TPMS is therefore useless and can
be dropped.

Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz at kernel.org>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/el2_setup.h | 3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/el2_setup.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/el2_setup.h
index 540116de80bf..56c9e1cef180 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/el2_setup.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/el2_setup.h
@@ -66,9 +66,6 @@
 	mov	x0, #(MDCR_EL2_E2PB_MASK << MDCR_EL2_E2PB_SHIFT)
 	orr	x2, x2, x0			// If we don't have VHE, then
 						// use EL1&0 translation.
-.else
-	orr	x2, x2, #MDCR_EL2_TPMS		// For VHE, use EL2 translation
-						// and disable access from EL1
 .endif
 
 .Lskip_spe_\@:
-- 
2.29.2




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