[PATCH v4 06/10] KVM: arm: vgic: Support 64-bit data manipulation on 32-bit host systems

Christoffer Dall christoffer.dall at linaro.org
Tue Sep 13 01:51:58 PDT 2016


On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 03:49:20PM +0100, Vladimir Murzin wrote:
> We have couple of 64-bit registers defined in GICv3 architecture, so
> unsigned long accesses to these registers will only access a single
> 32-bit part of that regitser. On the other hand these registers can't
> be accessed as 64-bit with a single instruction like ldrd/strd or
> ldmia/stmia if we run a 32-bit host because KVM does not support
> access to MMIO space done by these instructions.
> 
> It means that a 32-bit guest accesses these registers in 32-bit
> chunks, so the only thing we need to do is to ensure that
> extract_bytes() always takes 64-bit data.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin at arm.com>

Acked-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall at linaro.org>

> ---
>  virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-mmio-v3.c |    2 +-
>  virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-mmio.h    |    2 +-
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-mmio-v3.c b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-mmio-v3.c
> index 6385ed5..0d3c76a 100644
> --- a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-mmio-v3.c
> +++ b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-mmio-v3.c
> @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
>  #include "vgic-mmio.h"
>  
>  /* extract @num bytes at @offset bytes offset in data */
> -unsigned long extract_bytes(unsigned long data, unsigned int offset,
> +unsigned long extract_bytes(u64 data, unsigned int offset,
>  			    unsigned int num)
>  {
>  	return (data >> (offset * 8)) & GENMASK_ULL(num * 8 - 1, 0);
> diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-mmio.h b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-mmio.h
> index 0b3ecf9..80f92ce 100644
> --- a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-mmio.h
> +++ b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-mmio.h
> @@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ unsigned long vgic_data_mmio_bus_to_host(const void *val, unsigned int len);
>  void vgic_data_host_to_mmio_bus(void *buf, unsigned int len,
>  				unsigned long data);
>  
> -unsigned long extract_bytes(unsigned long data, unsigned int offset,
> +unsigned long extract_bytes(u64 data, unsigned int offset,
>  			    unsigned int num);
>  
>  u64 update_64bit_reg(u64 reg, unsigned int offset, unsigned int len,
> -- 
> 1.7.9.5
> 



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