From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoffer Dall Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 03/25] KVM: arm64: Make kvm_condition_valid32() accessible from EL2 Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2017 10:23:21 +0200 Message-ID: <20170605082321.GA8984@cbox> References: <20170601102117.17750-1-marc.zyngier@arm.com> <20170601102117.17750-4-marc.zyngier@arm.com> <20170604121129.GB9464@cbox> <394ef6fd-1123-0a1f-f462-ed5cb52e24da@arm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, David Daney , Catalin Marinas , Robert Richter , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu To: Marc Zyngier Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <394ef6fd-1123-0a1f-f462-ed5cb52e24da@arm.com> 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 Mon, Jun 05, 2017 at 09:13:53AM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote: > On 04/06/17 13:11, Christoffer Dall wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 01, 2017 at 11:20:55AM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote: > >> As we're about to trap CP15 accesses and handle them at EL2, we > >> need to evaluate whether or not the condition flags are valid, > >> as an implementation is allowed to trap despite the condition > >> not being met. > >> > >> Tagging the function as __hyp_text allows this. > > > > is the cc_map also guaranteed to work (by simple reference) in EL2 then? > > Yes. By virtue of being const, this ends up in the read-only part of the > kernel, which we always map at EL2. > And why don't we have to do any address-translation-to-hyp tricks on the address? Are we guaranteed that it's a relative address and everything is relocated with the same offset, or how was that again? Thanks, -Christoffer