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Message-ID: <110f31fc-4480-6218-0e7c-1576cb5368ba@arm.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 19:21:14 +0000
From: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>
To: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Cc: mark.rutland@....com, kim.phillips@....com, alex.bennee@...aro.org,
christoffer.dall@...aro.org, tglx@...utronix.de,
peterz@...radead.org, alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com,
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mathieu.poirier@...aro.org, mingo@...hat.com,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 04/10] arm64: head.S: Enable EL1 (host) access to
SPE when entered at EL2
On 13/01/17 16:03, Will Deacon wrote:
> The SPE architecture requires each exception level to enable access
> to the SPE controls for the exception level below it, since additional
> context-switch logic may be required to handle the buffer safely.
>
> This patch allows EL1 (host) access to the SPE controls when entered at
> EL2.
>
> Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>
> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
> ---
> arch/arm64/kernel/head.S | 14 ++++++++++++--
> 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
> index 4b1abac3485a..6a97831dcf3b 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/head.S
> @@ -592,8 +592,8 @@ CPU_LE( movk x0, #0x30d0, lsl #16 ) // Clear EE and E0E on LE systems
> #endif
>
> /* EL2 debug */
> - mrs x0, id_aa64dfr0_el1 // Check ID_AA64DFR0_EL1 PMUVer
> - sbfx x0, x0, #8, #4
> + mrs x1, id_aa64dfr0_el1 // Check ID_AA64DFR0_EL1 PMUVer
> + sbfx x0, x1, #8, #4
> cmp x0, #1
> b.lt 4f // Skip if no PMU present
> mrs x0, pmcr_el0 // Disable debug access traps
> @@ -601,6 +601,16 @@ CPU_LE( movk x0, #0x30d0, lsl #16 ) // Clear EE and E0E on LE systems
> 4:
> csel x0, xzr, x0, lt // all PMU counters from EL1
> msr mdcr_el2, x0 // (if they exist)
> + /* Statistical profiling */
> + ubfx x0, x1, #32, #4 // Check ID_AA64DFR0_EL1 PMSVer
> + cbz x0, 5f // Skip if SPE not present
> + mrs x0, mdcr_el2 // Preserve HPMN field
> + cmp x2, xzr // If VHE is not enabled,
> + mov x1, #3 // use EL1&0 translations,
> + cinc x1, x1, ne // otherwise use EL2 and
> + bfi x0, x1, #12, #3 // enable/disable access
> + msr mdcr_el2, x0 // traps accordingly.
Man, this hack to set TPMS and E2PB is horrid. It does the trick, but it
took me a couple of minutes to realize what it was doing. Can't we just
have named flags and a some form of conditional select instead? It would
hurt a lot less...
Thanks,
M.
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