From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Will Deacon Subject: [PATCH] KVM: arm64: add workaround for Cortex-A57 erratum #852523 Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 16:06:03 +0100 Message-ID: <1442243163-2675-1-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mm01.cs.columbia.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6E7F41022 for ; Mon, 14 Sep 2015 11:05:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mm01.cs.columbia.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mm01.cs.columbia.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id RaBg1daXH4rq for ; Mon, 14 Sep 2015 11:05:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: from cam-admin0.cambridge.arm.com (cam-admin0.cambridge.arm.com [217.140.96.50]) by mm01.cs.columbia.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3BB340F90 for ; Mon, 14 Sep 2015 11:05:09 -0400 (EDT) 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 To: kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu Cc: linux@arm.linux.org.uk, kvm@vger.kernel.org, Marc Zyngier , Will Deacon , stable@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org List-Id: kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu When restoring the system register state for an AArch32 guest at EL2, writes to DACR32_EL2 may not be correctly synchronised by Cortex-A57, which can lead to the guest effectively running with junk in the DACR and running into unexpected domain faults. This patch works around the issue by re-ordering our restoration of the AArch32 register aliases so that they happen before the AArch64 system registers. Ensuring that the registers are restored in this order guarantees that they will be correctly synchronised by the core. Cc: Cc: Marc Zyngier Signed-off-by: Will Deacon --- arch/arm64/kvm/hyp.S | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp.S b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp.S index 3c4f641451bb..c4016d411f4a 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp.S +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp.S @@ -739,6 +739,9 @@ ENTRY(__kvm_vcpu_run) // Guest context add x2, x0, #VCPU_CONTEXT + // We must restore the 32-bit state before the sysregs, thanks + // to Cortex-A57 erratum #852523. + restore_guest_32bit_state bl __restore_sysregs skip_debug_state x3, 1f @@ -746,7 +749,6 @@ ENTRY(__kvm_vcpu_run) kern_hyp_va x3 bl __restore_debug 1: - restore_guest_32bit_state restore_guest_regs // That's it, no more messing around. -- 2.1.4