From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoffer Dall Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 15/15] KVM: arm: enable trapping of all debug registers Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 09:38:14 +0200 Message-ID: <20150929073814.GE9002@cbox> References: <1439213167-8988-1-git-send-email-zhichao.huang@linaro.org> <1439213167-8988-16-git-send-email-zhichao.huang@linaro.org> <20150902160814.GS10991@cbox> <560A2499.3030409@linaro.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, marc.zyngier@arm.com, will.deacon@arm.com, huangzhichao@huawei.com, kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org To: Zhichao Huang Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <560A2499.3030409@linaro.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: kvmarm-bounces@lists.cs.columbia.edu Sender: kvmarm-bounces@lists.cs.columbia.edu List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 01:41:45PM +0800, Zhichao Huang wrote: > > > On 2015/9/3 0:08, Christoffer Dall wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 09:26:07PM +0800, Zhichao Huang wrote: > >> Enable trapping of the debug registers unconditionally, allowing guests to > >> use the debug infrastructure. > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Zhichao Huang > >> Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall > >> --- > >> arch/arm/kvm/interrupts_head.S | 2 +- > >> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > >> > >> diff --git a/arch/arm/kvm/interrupts_head.S b/arch/arm/kvm/interrupts_head.S > >> index 7ad0adf..494991d 100644 > >> --- a/arch/arm/kvm/interrupts_head.S > >> +++ b/arch/arm/kvm/interrupts_head.S > >> @@ -792,7 +792,7 @@ ARM_BE8(rev r6, r6 ) > >> * (hardware reset value is 0) */ > >> .macro set_hdcr operation > >> mrc p15, 4, r2, c1, c1, 1 > >> - ldr r3, =(HDCR_TPM|HDCR_TPMCR) > >> + ldr r3, =(HDCR_TPM|HDCR_TPMCR|HDCR_TDRA|HDCR_TDOSA|HDCR_TDA) > > > > eh, but I thought we didn't have to trap accesses to the debug registers > > if we switch them, because the guest is likely to be using them? > > > > Maybe I am getting confused, can you repeat for me exactly when we > > context-switch the registers and when we trap accesses to them? > > > > Since we don't want to world switch the dangerous register(DBGDSCR), we have > to trap accesses all the time, to prevent the guest to write to the real register. > ok, so this is in line with my comment to your previous patch, but you did have world-switching code of DBGDSCR in this series, hence my confusion. So you would need to get rid of this for the new version of the series. Thanks, -Christoffer