[PATCH] KVM: arm64: Cleanup the __get_fault_info() to take out the code that validates HPFAR
Mingwei Zhang
mizhang at google.com
Tue Sep 27 10:48:52 PDT 2022
>
> Honestly, I'd refrain from such changes *unless* they enable something
> else. The current code is well understood by people hacking on it, and
> although I don't mind revamping it, it has to be for a good reason.
>
> I'd be much more receptive to such a change if it was a prefix to
> something that actually made a significant change.
>
> Thanks,
>
> M.
>
Hi Marc,
Thanks for the feedback. I am not sure about the style of the KVM ARM
side. But in general I think mixing the generic code for ARM and
specific CPU errata handling is misleading. For instance, in this
case:
+ if ((esr & ESR_ELx_FSC_TYPE) == FSC_PERM)
+ return false;
+
+ if (cpus_have_final_cap(ARM64_WORKAROUND_834220))
+ return false;
As shown it would be much cleaner to separate the two cases as the
former case is suggested in ARMv8 Spec D13.2.55. The latter case would
definitely come from a different source.
But I also don't have a strong opinion pushing this one. So, let me
pull it back then :)
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