[PATCH 0/2] KVM: arm64: Minor improvements to RAZ register handling

Marc Zyngier maz at kernel.org
Mon Oct 11 02:47:57 PDT 2021


Hi Alexandru,

On Mon, 27 Sep 2021 13:49:09 +0100,
Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei at arm.com> wrote:
> 
> What sparked these two small patches is the series that fixed the PMU reset
> values and their visibility from userspace, more specifically the
> discussion around the patch that removed the PMSWINC_EL0 shadow register
> [1].
> 
> The patches are straightforward cleanups without any changes in
> functionality.
> 
> Tested on a rockpro64, by running kvm-unit-tests under qemu.
> 
> [1] https://www.spinics.net/lists/kvm-arm/msg47976.html
> 
> Alexandru Elisei (2):
>   KVM: arm64: Return early from read_id_reg() if register is RAZ
>   KVM: arm64: Use get_raz_reg() for userspace reads of PMSWINC_EL0
> 
>  arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 

If you are going to respin this one, now would be the time! :-)

Thanks,

	M.

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