[PATCH v2 08/21] arm64: KVM: VHE: Introduce unified system register accessors

Christoffer Dall christoffer.dall at linaro.org
Mon Feb 1 07:43:29 PST 2016


On Mon, Feb 01, 2016 at 02:04:39PM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> On 01/02/16 13:47, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 03:53:42PM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> >> VHE brings its own bag of new system registers, or rather system
> >> register accessors, as it define new ways to access both guest
> >> and host system registers. For example, from the host:
> >>
> >> - The host TCR_EL2 register is accessed using the TCR_EL1 accessor
> >> - The guest TCR_EL1 register is accessed using the TCR_EL12 accessor
> >>
> >> Obviously, this is confusing. A way to somehow reduce the complexity
> >> of writing code for both ARMv8 and ARMv8.1 is to use a set of unified
> >> accessors that will generate the right sysreg, depending on the mode
> >> the CPU is running in. For example:
> >>
> >> - read_sysreg_el1(tcr) will use TCR_EL1 on ARMv8, and TCR_EL12 on
> >>   ARMv8.1 with VHE.
> >> - read_sysreg_el2(tcr) will use TCR_EL2 on ARMv8, and TCR_EL1 on
> >>   ARMv8.1 with VHE.
> >>
> >> We end up with three sets of accessors ({read,write}_sysreg_el[012])
> >> that can be directly used from C code. We take this opportunity to
> >> also add the definition for the new VHE sysregs.(
> > 
> > weird closing parenthesis.
> > 
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>
> >> ---
> >>  arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/hyp.h | 72 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >>  1 file changed, 72 insertions(+)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/hyp.h b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/hyp.h
> >> index fc502f3..744c919 100644
> >> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/hyp.h
> >> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/hyp.h
> >> @@ -48,6 +48,78 @@ static inline unsigned long __hyp_kern_va(unsigned long v)
> >>  
> >>  #define hyp_kern_va(v) (typeof(v))(__hyp_kern_va((unsigned long)(v)))
> >>  
> >> +#define read_sysreg_elx(r,nvh,vh)					\
> >> +	({								\
> >> +		u64 reg;						\
> >> +		asm volatile(ALTERNATIVE("mrs %0, " __stringify(r##nvh),\
> >> +					 "mrs_s %0, " __stringify(r##vh),\
> >> +					 ARM64_HAS_VIRT_HOST_EXTN)	\
> >> +			     : "=r" (reg));				\
> >> +		reg;							\
> >> +	})
> >> +
> >> +#define write_sysreg_elx(v,r,nvh,vh)					\
> >> +	do {								\
> >> +		u64 __val = (u64)(v);					\
> >> +		asm volatile(ALTERNATIVE("msr " __stringify(r##nvh) ", %x0",\
> >> +					 "msr_s " __stringify(r##vh) ", %x0",\
> >> +					 ARM64_HAS_VIRT_HOST_EXTN)	\
> >> +					 : : "rZ" (__val));		\
> > 
> > what is rZ ?
> > (complete Google-fu failure misery)
> 
> This gives the assembler the opportunity to generate a XZR register
> access if the value is zero. See:
> 
> https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Machine-Constraints.html#Machine-Constraints
> 

I don't know why I didn't find this.

So "Integer constant zero " means, this may be zero.  Right.

> > 
> >> +	} while (0)
> >> +
> >> +/*
> >> + * Unified accessors for registers that have a different encoding
> >> + * between VHE and non-VHE. They must be specified without their "ELx"
> >> + * encoding.
> >> + */
> >> +#define read_sysreg_el2(r)						\
> >> +	({								\
> >> +		u64 reg;						\
> >> +		asm volatile(ALTERNATIVE("mrs %0, " __stringify(r##_EL2),\
> >> +					 "mrs %0, " __stringify(r##_EL1),\
> >> +					 ARM64_HAS_VIRT_HOST_EXTN)	\
> >> +			     : "=r" (reg));				\
> >> +		reg;							\
> >> +	})
> >> +
> >> +#define write_sysreg_el2(v,r)						\
> >> +	do {								\
> >> +		u64 __val = (u64)(v);					\
> >> +		asm volatile(ALTERNATIVE("msr " __stringify(r##_EL2) ", %x0",\
> >> +					 "msr " __stringify(r##_EL1) ", %x0",\
> >> +					 ARM64_HAS_VIRT_HOST_EXTN)	\
> >> +					 : : "rZ" (__val));		\
> >> +	} while (0)
> >> +
> >> +#define read_sysreg_el0(r)	read_sysreg_elx(r, _EL0, _EL02)
> >> +#define write_sysreg_el0(v,r)	write_sysreg_elx(v, r, _EL0, _EL02)
> >> +#define read_sysreg_el1(r)	read_sysreg_elx(r, _EL1, _EL12)
> >> +#define write_sysreg_el1(v,r)	write_sysreg_elx(v, r, _EL1, _EL12)
> >> +
> >> +/* The VHE specific system registers and their encoding */
> >> +#define sctlr_EL12              sys_reg(3, 5, 1, 0, 0)
> >> +#define cpacr_EL12              sys_reg(3, 5, 1, 0, 2)
> >> +#define ttbr0_EL12              sys_reg(3, 5, 2, 0, 0)
> >> +#define ttbr1_EL12              sys_reg(3, 5, 2, 0, 1)
> >> +#define tcr_EL12                sys_reg(3, 5, 2, 0, 2)
> >> +#define afsr0_EL12              sys_reg(3, 5, 5, 1, 0)
> >> +#define afsr1_EL12              sys_reg(3, 5, 5, 1, 1)
> >> +#define esr_EL12                sys_reg(3, 5, 5, 2, 0)
> >> +#define far_EL12                sys_reg(3, 5, 6, 0, 0)
> >> +#define mair_EL12               sys_reg(3, 5, 10, 2, 0)
> >> +#define amair_EL12              sys_reg(3, 5, 10, 3, 0)
> >> +#define vbar_EL12               sys_reg(3, 5, 12, 0, 0)
> >> +#define contextidr_EL12         sys_reg(3, 5, 13, 0, 1)
> >> +#define cntkctl_EL12            sys_reg(3, 5, 14, 1, 0)
> >> +#define cntp_tval_EL02          sys_reg(3, 5, 14, 2, 0)
> >> +#define cntp_ctl_EL02           sys_reg(3, 5, 14, 2, 1)
> >> +#define cntp_cval_EL02          sys_reg(3, 5, 14, 2, 2)
> >> +#define cntv_tval_EL02          sys_reg(3, 5, 14, 3, 0)
> >> +#define cntv_ctl_EL02           sys_reg(3, 5, 14, 3, 1)
> >> +#define cntv_cval_EL02          sys_reg(3, 5, 14, 3, 2)
> > 
> > as always, fun stuff to review.
> 
> Well, short of having publicly available documentation, or force
> everyone to upgrade their binutils to deal be able to cope with the new
> sysregs, I don't know what else to do. I'm open to suggestions, though.
> 

I wasn't suggesting you do anything different, I just put the stupid
comment there so you knew that I actually checked the values and so that
I didn't forget that I did, and ended up doing it again if I look at
this later...

> > 
> >> +#define spsr_EL12               sys_reg(3, 5, 4, 0, 0)
> >> +#define elr_EL12                sys_reg(3, 5, 4, 0, 1)
> >> +
> > 
> > I couldn't quite decipher the spec as to how these are the right
> > instruction encodings, so I'm going to trust the testing that this is
> > done right.
> 
> If you have access to the spec, you have to play a substitution game
> between the canonical encoding of the register accessed, and the
> register used. For example:
> 
> SPSR_EL1 (3, 0, 4, 0, 0) -> SPSR_EL12 (3, 5, 4, 0, 0)
> 
> In practice, only Op1 changes.
> 
That's what I assumed, thanks for confirming.

-Christoffer



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