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From: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
To: wangrongwei <rongwei.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: vkoul@kernel.org, gshan@redhat.com, Anson.Huang@nxp.com,
	geert+renesas@glider.be, catalin.marinas@arm.com,
	masahiroy@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	krzk@kernel.org, bjorn.andersson@linaro.org, michael@walle.cc,
	olof@lixom.net, shawnguo@kernel.org, vincenzo.frascino@arm.com,
	Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	ardb@kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] arm64:msr: Add MSR driver
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2020 08:12:30 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <059ed4a8768ff3881005796cb4a10d5e@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <855BA92C-5B22-4F14-965A-B1F72A872B8D@linux.alibaba.com>

On 2020-12-01 03:09, wangrongwei wrote:
> Hi
> We have validate this driver in vm and physical machine, and works 
> fine.

But what does "work fine" mean? None of these system registers are 
supposed
to be accessible from userspace, so please explain *what* you are trying 
to
do with this, other that introducing security holes and general system
instability?

> Actually, we used existing interfaces to realize this driver, likes
> aarch64_insn_read and aarch64_insn_patch_text.

Sure. At that stage, you could also directly expose the linear mapping 
to
userspace and start writing to it, it would probably be a fitting 
addition...

> These existing intefaces had validated a CPU.

If CPU validation is your goal, I suggest this is kept out of tree, as 
the
kernel is hardly a validation tool for the arm64 architecture.

Thanks,

         M.
-- 
Jazz is not dead. It just smells funny...

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-01  8:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-30 17:48 [PATCH 0/3] arm64:msr: Add MSR driver Rongwei Wang
2020-11-30 17:48 ` [PATCH 1/3] arm64:insn: Export symbols for MSR ARM driver Rongwei Wang
2020-11-30 17:48 ` [PATCH 2/3] arm64:msr: Introduce " Rongwei Wang
2020-11-30 17:48 ` [PATCH 3/3] arm64:msr: Enable " Rongwei Wang
2020-11-30 17:57 ` [PATCH 0/3] arm64:msr: Add MSR driver Will Deacon
2020-12-01  2:55   ` wangrongwei
2020-12-01  5:44   ` wangrongwei
2020-11-30 18:05 ` Marc Zyngier
2020-11-30 18:20   ` Randy Dunlap
2020-12-01  3:09   ` wangrongwei
2020-12-01  8:12     ` Marc Zyngier [this message]
2020-12-01 14:25       ` wangrongwei
2020-12-01 15:37         ` Marc Zyngier
2020-12-03  5:45           ` Rongwei Wang
2020-12-03  8:35             ` Marc Zyngier
2020-12-03 11:25               ` Rongwei Wang
2020-12-03 11:45                 ` Marc Zyngier
2020-12-03 12:22                   ` Rongwei Wang
2020-12-03 11:50                 ` Mark Rutland
2020-11-30 19:03 ` Borislav Petkov
2020-12-01  3:44   ` wangrongwei
2020-12-01 11:26     ` Borislav Petkov
2020-12-01 14:33       ` wangrongwei
2020-12-01 14:54         ` Borislav Petkov
2020-12-01 15:17           ` Rongwei Wang
2020-12-01 15:25             ` Borislav Petkov
2020-12-03  2:09               ` Rongwei Wang
2020-12-01 15:26             ` Ard Biesheuvel

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