[PATCH 23/23] KVM: arm64: Treat emulated TVAL TimerValue as a signed 32-bit integer

Marc Zyngier
2020-01-30T13:29:21Z

From: Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei@arm.com>

According to the ARM ARM, registers CNT{P,V}_TVAL_EL0 have bits [63:32]
RES0 [1]. When reading the register, the value is truncated to the least
significant 32 bits [2], and on writes, TimerValue is treated as a signed
32-bit integer [1, 2].

When the guest behaves correctly and writes 32-bit values, treating TVAL
as an unsigned 64 bit register works as expected. However, things start
to break down when the guest writes larger values, because
(u64)0x1_ffff_ffff = 8589934591. but (s32)0x1_ffff_ffff = -1, and the
former will cause the timer interrupt to be asserted in the future, but
the latter will cause it to be asserted now. Let's treat TVAL as a
signed 32-bit register on writes, to match the behaviour described in
the architecture, and the behaviour experimentally exhibited by the
virtual timer on a non-vhe host.

[1] Arm DDI 0487E.a, section D13.8.18
[2] Arm DDI 0487E.a, section D11.2.4

Signed-off-by: Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei@arm.com>
[maz: replaced the read-side mask with lower_32_bits]
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Fixes: 8fa761624871 ("KVM: arm/arm64: arch_timer: Fix CNTP_TVAL calculation")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200127103652.2326-1-alexandru.elisei@arm.com
---
virt/kvm/arm/arch_timer.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/arch_timer.c b/virt/kvm/arm/arch_timer.c
index f182b2380345..c6c2a9dde00c 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/arm/arch_timer.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/arm/arch_timer.c
@@ -805,6 +805,7 @@ static u64 kvm_arm_timer_read(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
switch (treg) {
case TIMER_REG_TVAL:
val = timer->cnt_cval - kvm_phys_timer_read() + timer->cntvoff;
+ val &= lower_32_bits(val);
break;

case TIMER_REG_CTL:
@@ -850,7 +851,7 @@ static void kvm_arm_timer_write(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
{
switch (treg) {
case TIMER_REG_TVAL:
- timer->cnt_cval = kvm_phys_timer_read() - timer->cntvoff + val;
+ timer->cnt_cval = kvm_phys_timer_read() - timer->cntvoff + (s32)val;
break;

case TIMER_REG_CTL:
--
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