linux-kernel - [PATCH v7 06/23] arm64: Drop early setting of MDSCR

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Date:   Mon,  8 Feb 2021 09:57:15 +0000
From:   Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>
To:     linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, kvmarm@...ts.cs.columbia.edu,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        David Brazdil <dbrazdil@...gle.com>,
        Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei@....com>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>,
        Jing Zhang <jingzhangos@...gle.com>,
        Ajay Patil <pajay@....qualcomm.com>,
        Prasad Sodagudi <psodagud@...eaurora.org>,
        Srinivas Ramana <sramana@...eaurora.org>,
        Hector Martin <marcan@...can.st>,
        James Morse <james.morse@....com>,
        Julien Thierry <julien.thierry.kdev@...il.com>,
        Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>,
        kernel-team@...roid.com
Subject: [PATCH v7 06/23] arm64: Drop early setting of MDSCR_EL2.TPMS

When running VHE, we set MDSCR_EL2.TPMS very early on to force
the trapping of EL1 SPE accesses to EL2.

However:
- we are running with HCR_EL2.{E2H,TGE}={1,1}, meaning that there
  is no EL1 to trap from

- before entering a guest, we call kvm_arm_setup_debug(), which
  sets MDCR_EL2_TPMS in the per-vcpu shadow mdscr_el2, which gets
  applied on entry by __activate_traps_common().

The early setting of MDSCR_EL2.TPMS is therefore useless and can
be dropped.

Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/el2_setup.h | 3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/el2_setup.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/el2_setup.h
index 540116de80bf..56c9e1cef180 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/el2_setup.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/el2_setup.h
@@ -66,9 +66,6 @@
 	mov	x0, #(MDCR_EL2_E2PB_MASK << MDCR_EL2_E2PB_SHIFT)
 	orr	x2, x2, x0			// If we don't have VHE, then
 						// use EL1&0 translation.
-.else
-	orr	x2, x2, #MDCR_EL2_TPMS		// For VHE, use EL2 translation
-						// and disable access from EL1
 .endif
 
 .Lskip_spe_\@:
-- 
2.29.2