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Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2015 11:34:46 +0100
From: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@...aro.org>
To: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@...aro.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 08/12] KVM: arm64: re-factor hyp.S debug register code
Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@...aro.org> writes:
> On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 10:30:24AM +0100, Alex Bennée wrote:
>> This is a pre-cursor to sharing the code with the guest debug support.
>> This replaces the big macro that fishes data out of a fixed location
>> with a more general helper macro to restore a set of debug registers. It
>> uses macro substitution so it can be re-used for debug control and value
>> registers. It does however rely on the debug registers being 64 bit
>> aligned (as they happen to be in the hyp ABI).
Oops I'd better fix that commit comment.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@...aro.org>
>>
>> ---
>> v3:
>> - return to the patch series
>> - add save and restore targets
>> - change register use and document
>> v4:
>> - keep original setup/restore names
>> - don't use split u32/u64 structure yet
>> ---
>> arch/arm64/kvm/hyp.S | 519 ++++++++++++++-------------------------------------
>> 1 file changed, 140 insertions(+), 379 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp.S b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp.S
>> index 74e63d8..9c4897d 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp.S
>> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp.S
>
>
> [...]
>
>> @@ -465,195 +318,52 @@
>> msr mdscr_el1, x25
>> .endm
>>
>> -.macro restore_debug
>> - // x2: base address for cpu context
>> - // x3: tmp register
>> -
>> - mrs x26, id_aa64dfr0_el1
>> - ubfx x24, x26, #12, #4 // Extract BRPs
>> - ubfx x25, x26, #20, #4 // Extract WRPs
>> - mov w26, #15
>> - sub w24, w26, w24 // How many BPs to skip
>> - sub w25, w26, w25 // How many WPs to skip
>> -
>> - add x3, x2, #CPU_SYSREG_OFFSET(DBGBCR0_EL1)
>> +.macro restore_debug type
>> + // x4: pointer to register set
>> + // x5: number of registers to skip
>
> nit: use tabs instead of spaces here...
>
>> + // x6..x22 trashed
>>
>
> [...]
>
>> @@ -887,12 +597,63 @@ __restore_sysregs:
>> restore_sysregs
>> ret
>>
>> +/* Save debug state */
>> __save_debug:
>> - save_debug
>> + // x0: base address for vcpu context
>> + // x2: ptr to current CPU context
>> + // x4/x5: trashed
>
> I had a bunch of questions here which I think you missed last time
> around:
> 1. why do we need the vcpu context?
We don't, I'll drop that
> 2. what does 'current' mean here?
Either the host or vcpu context depending which way we are currently going.
> 3. you're also trashing everything that save_debug trashes, so x4/5,
> x6-x22 trashed would be more correct
OK
>
>> +
>> + mrs x26, id_aa64dfr0_el1
>> + ubfx x24, x26, #12, #4 // Extract BRPs
>> + ubfx x25, x26, #20, #4 // Extract WRPs
>> + mov w26, #15
>> + sub w24, w26, w24 // How many BPs to skip
>> + sub w25, w26, w25 // How many WPs to skip
>> +
>> + mov x5, x24
>> + add x4, x2, #CPU_SYSREG_OFFSET(DBGBCR0_EL1)
>> + save_debug dbgbcr
>> + add x4, x2, #CPU_SYSREG_OFFSET(DBGBVR0_EL1)
>> + save_debug dbgbvr
>> +
>> + mov x5, x25
>> + add x4, x2, #CPU_SYSREG_OFFSET(DBGWCR0_EL1)
>> + save_debug dbgwcr
>> + add x4, x2, #CPU_SYSREG_OFFSET(DBGWVR0_EL1)
>> + save_debug dbgwvr
>> +
>> + mrs x21, mdccint_el1
>> + str x21, [x2, #CPU_SYSREG_OFFSET(MDCCINT_EL1)]
>> ret
>>
>> +/* Restore debug state */
>> __restore_debug:
>> - restore_debug
>> + // x0: base address for cpu context
>> + // x2: ptr to current CPU context
>> + // x4/x5: trashed
>
> and you missed these comments too, basically same stuff, but why was it
> 'cpu' here and not 'vcpu' like above?
Again we use the functions both for restoring host and vcpu debug context.
>
> note again, that you're explicitly touching x24, xx25, and x26 here as
> well, so shouldn't they be listed as trashed?
>
>> +
>> + mrs x26, id_aa64dfr0_el1
>> + ubfx x24, x26, #12, #4 // Extract BRPs
>> + ubfx x25, x26, #20, #4 // Extract WRPs
>> + mov w26, #15
>> + sub w24, w26, w24 // How many BPs to skip
>> + sub w25, w26, w25 // How many WPs to skip
>> +
>> + mov x5, x24
>> + add x4, x2, #CPU_SYSREG_OFFSET(DBGBCR0_EL1)
>> + restore_debug dbgbcr
>> + add x4, x2, #CPU_SYSREG_OFFSET(DBGBVR0_EL1)
>> + restore_debug dbgbvr
>> +
>> + mov x5, x25
>> + add x4, x2, #CPU_SYSREG_OFFSET(DBGWCR0_EL1)
>> + restore_debug dbgwcr
>> + add x4, x2, #CPU_SYSREG_OFFSET(DBGWVR0_EL1)
>> + restore_debug dbgwvr
>> +
>> + ldr x21, [x2, #CPU_SYSREG_OFFSET(MDCCINT_EL1)]
>> + msr mdccint_el1, x21
>> +
>> ret
>>
>> __save_fpsimd:
>
> Thanks,
> -Christoffer
--
Alex Bennée
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