From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.0 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 817D2C47092 for ; Wed, 2 Jun 2021 08:21:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from kanga.kvack.org (kanga.kvack.org [205.233.56.17]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0CA8613CA for ; Wed, 2 Jun 2021 08:21:02 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org F0CA8613CA Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=fail (p=none dis=none) header.from=kernel.org Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Received: by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) id 5B2AC6B006C; Wed, 2 Jun 2021 04:21:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix, from userid 40) id 54FB86B006E; Wed, 2 Jun 2021 04:21:02 -0400 (EDT) X-Delivered-To: int-list-linux-mm@kvack.org Received: by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix, from userid 63042) id 3CA296B0070; Wed, 2 Jun 2021 04:21:02 -0400 (EDT) X-Delivered-To: linux-mm@kvack.org Received: from forelay.hostedemail.com (smtprelay0094.hostedemail.com [216.40.44.94]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0777F6B006C for ; Wed, 2 Jun 2021 04:21:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from smtpin02.hostedemail.com (10.5.19.251.rfc1918.com [10.5.19.251]) by forelay03.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BF458249980 for ; Wed, 2 Jun 2021 08:21:01 +0000 (UTC) X-FDA: 78208088322.02.E9154C1 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by imf16.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8DB7801936E for ; Wed, 2 Jun 2021 08:20:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from disco-boy.misterjones.org (disco-boy.misterjones.org [51.254.78.96]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 45BEA613AC; Wed, 2 Jun 2021 08:21:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from 78.163-31-62.static.virginmediabusiness.co.uk ([62.31.163.78] helo=why.misterjones.org) by disco-boy.misterjones.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.3) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1loM7V-004ykh-UW; Wed, 02 Jun 2021 09:20:58 +0100 Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2021 09:20:49 +0100 Message-ID: <87czt41xum.wl-maz@kernel.org> From: Marc Zyngier To: Pavel Tatashin Cc: James Morris , Sasha Levin , "Eric W. Biederman" , kexec mailing list , LKML , Jonathan Corbet , Catalin Marinas , Will Deacon , Linux ARM , James Morse , Vladimir Murzin , Matthias Brugger , linux-mm , Mark Rutland , steve.capper@arm.com, rfontana@redhat.com, Thomas Gleixner , Selin Dag , Tyler Hicks , Pingfan Liu , Andrew Morton , madvenka@linux.microsoft.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/18] arm64: kernel: add helper for booted at EL2 and not VHE In-Reply-To: References: <20210527150526.271941-1-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> <20210527150526.271941-5-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> <87pmx52212.wl-maz@kernel.org> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.15.9 (Almost Unreal) SEMI-EPG/1.14.7 (Harue) FLIM-LB/1.14.9 (=?UTF-8?B?R29qxY0=?=) APEL-LB/10.8 EasyPG/1.0.0 Emacs/27.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) MULE/6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI-EPG 1.14.7 - "Harue") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 62.31.163.78 X-SA-Exim-Rcpt-To: pasha.tatashin@soleen.com, jmorris@namei.org, sashal@kernel.org, ebiederm@xmission.com, kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, corbet@lwn.net, catalin.marinas@arm.com, will@kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, james.morse@arm.com, vladimir.murzin@arm.com, matthias.bgg@gmail.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, mark.rutland@arm.com, steve.capper@arm.com, rfontana@redhat.com, tglx@linutronix.de, selindag@gmail.com, tyhicks@linux.microsoft.com, kernelfans@gmail.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, madvenka@linux.microsoft.com X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: maz@kernel.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on disco-boy.misterjones.org); SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: A8DB7801936E Authentication-Results: imf16.hostedemail.com; dkim=none; dmarc=pass (policy=none) header.from=kernel.org; spf=pass (imf16.hostedemail.com: domain of maz@kernel.org designates 198.145.29.99 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=maz@kernel.org X-Rspamd-Server: rspam04 X-Stat-Signature: ttisxiikgkzz731oayj14sazafezy4g6 X-HE-Tag: 1622622048-91090 X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Precedence: bulk X-Loop: owner-majordomo@kvack.org List-ID: On Wed, 02 Jun 2021 02:33:52 +0100, Pavel Tatashin wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 8:38 AM Marc Zyngier wrote: > > > > On Thu, 27 May 2021 16:05:12 +0100, > > Pavel Tatashin wrote: > > > > > > Replace places that contain logic like this: > > > is_hyp_mode_available() && !is_kernel_in_hyp_mode() > > > > > > With a dedicated boolean function is_hyp_callable(). This will be needed > > > later in kexec in order to sooner switch back to EL2. > > > > This looks like the very definition of "run in nVHE mode", so I'd > > rather you call it like this, rather than "callable", which is > > extremely ambiguous (if running at EL2, I call it any time I want, for > > free). > > Hi Marc, > > Naming is hard. News flash! > Are you proposing s/is_hyp_callable/run_in_nvhe_mode/ ? This is also > not a very good name because it does not sound like a boolean, but > instead that we know that there is nvhe mode available and we can > switch to it. No, what I suggest is "is_hyp_nvhe()", or something along those lines. It clearly identifies that we are in control of EL2, and which mode it is in. M. -- Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.