[PATCH v14 3/5] KVM: arm64: Manage GCS access and registers for guests

Marc Zyngier maz at kernel.org
Sat Oct 5 07:33:48 PDT 2024


On Sat, 05 Oct 2024 15:26:38 +0100,
Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org> wrote:
> 
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> On Sat, Oct 05, 2024 at 03:02:09PM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> > Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org> wrote:
> 
> > > Ah, I see.  I'd been under the impression that the generic machinery was
> > > supposed to handle this already using the descriptions in
> > > emulate-nested.c and we only needed handlers for more specific actions.
> 
> > From that very file:
> 
> > /*
> >  * Map encoding to trap bits for exception reported with EC=0x18.
> >  [...]
> >  */
> 
> > Everything else needs special handling.
> 
> I see.  I had noticed that comment on that table but I didn't register
> that the comment wound up applying to the whole file rather than being
> about a specific part of the handling.  I'm a bit confused about how
> things like the SVE traps I mentioned work here...

Like all ECs, the handling starts in handle_exit.c.

	M.

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