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From: Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>
To: Corneliu ZUZU <czuzu@bitdefender.com>, xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Cc: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>,
	Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>,
	Tamas K Lengyel <tamas@tklengyel.com>,
	Razvan Cojocaru <rcojocaru@bitdefender.com>,
	Steve Capper <Steve.Capper@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] vm-event/arm: implement support for control-register write vm-events
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 20:41:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f317ee54-169a-368c-7563-ee296be1e66b@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ade67f43-182d-c4a0-a2d3-25ee4e176826@bitdefender.com>



On 22/06/2016 20:37, Corneliu ZUZU wrote:
> I've also realized that it's a bit complicated to avoid writing HCR from
> 2 places.
> That's because:
> - p2m_restore_state is part of the process of switching to another vCPU
> and the HCR write _must be committed_ here because other components
> depend on that, like address-translation functions
> - I want vm_event_vcpu_enter to be called _after_ the switch to the vCPU
> is completed
> - I want HCR_TVM to be set in vm_event_vcpu_enter because setting
> necessary traps _for cr vm-events_ to work should be done there (setting
> HCR_TVM bit makes sense to be there and the purpose is to centralize
> operations such as this for code comprehensibility; also, on the X86
> counterpart a similar operation is done for trapping CR3, so it would be
> nice to keep the symmetry)
>
> Would it be such a stretch to have HCR written in 2 places? (the second
> time happens rarely anyway: it's unlikely(..) to have to do the write in
> vm_event_vcpu_enter)

Not really. It was mostly to avoid setting/clearing HCR bits in 
different place in the code. It makes more difficult to know what is the 
final result of the register.

Anyway, let's skip it for now, if it is too difficult.

Regards,

-- 
Julien Grall

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Thread overview: 73+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-16 14:04 [PATCH 0/7] vm-event: Implement ARM support for control-register writes Corneliu ZUZU
2016-06-16 14:06 ` [PATCH 1/7] minor (formatting) fixes Corneliu ZUZU
2016-06-16 14:24   ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-16 19:19     ` Corneliu ZUZU
2016-06-17  7:06       ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-17 10:46         ` Corneliu ZUZU
2016-06-16 16:02   ` Tamas K Lengyel
2016-06-17  8:33     ` Corneliu ZUZU
2016-06-17  8:36       ` Razvan Cojocaru
2016-06-17  9:29         ` Andrew Cooper
2016-06-17  9:35           ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-17  9:33         ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-17  9:36           ` Razvan Cojocaru
2016-06-17  9:40             ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-17  9:42               ` Razvan Cojocaru
2016-06-17 19:05           ` Tamas K Lengyel
2016-06-16 14:07 ` [PATCH 2/7] vm-event: VM_EVENT_FLAG_DENY requires VM_EVENT_FLAG_VCPU_PAUSED Corneliu ZUZU
2016-06-16 16:11   ` Tamas K Lengyel
2016-06-17  8:43     ` Corneliu ZUZU
2016-06-21 11:26     ` Corneliu ZUZU
2016-06-21 15:09       ` Tamas K Lengyel
2016-06-22  8:34         ` Corneliu ZUZU
2016-06-16 14:08 ` [PATCH 3/7] vm-event: introduce vm_event_vcpu_enter Corneliu ZUZU
2016-06-16 14:51   ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-16 20:10     ` Corneliu ZUZU
2016-06-16 20:33       ` Razvan Cojocaru
2016-06-17 10:41         ` Corneliu ZUZU
2016-06-17  7:17       ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-17 11:13         ` Corneliu ZUZU
2016-06-17 11:27           ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-17 12:13             ` Corneliu ZUZU
2016-06-16 16:17   ` Tamas K Lengyel
2016-06-17  9:19     ` Corneliu ZUZU
2016-06-17  8:55   ` Julien Grall
2016-06-17 11:40     ` Corneliu ZUZU
2016-06-17 13:22       ` Julien Grall
2016-06-16 14:09 ` [PATCH 4/7] vm-event/x86: use vm_event_vcpu_enter properly Corneliu ZUZU
2016-06-16 15:00   ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-16 20:20     ` Corneliu ZUZU
2016-06-17  7:20       ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-17 11:23         ` Corneliu ZUZU
2016-06-16 16:27   ` Tamas K Lengyel
2016-06-17  9:24     ` Corneliu ZUZU
2016-06-16 14:10 ` [PATCH 5/7] x86: replace monitor_write_data.do_write with enum Corneliu ZUZU
2016-06-16 14:12 ` [PATCH 6/7] vm-event/arm: move hvm_event_cr->common vm_event_monitor_cr Corneliu ZUZU
2016-06-16 15:16   ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-17  8:25     ` Corneliu ZUZU
2016-06-17  8:38       ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-17 11:31         ` Corneliu ZUZU
2016-06-21  7:08       ` Corneliu ZUZU
2016-06-21  7:20         ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-21 15:22           ` Tamas K Lengyel
2016-06-22  6:33             ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-16 16:55   ` Tamas K Lengyel
2016-06-17 10:37     ` Corneliu ZUZU
2016-06-16 14:13 ` [PATCH 7/7] vm-event/arm: implement support for control-register write vm-events Corneliu ZUZU
2016-06-16 14:26   ` Julien Grall
2016-06-16 19:24     ` Corneliu ZUZU
2016-06-16 21:28       ` Julien Grall
2016-06-17 11:46         ` Corneliu ZUZU
2016-06-16 16:49   ` Julien Grall
2016-06-17 10:36     ` Corneliu ZUZU
2016-06-17 13:18       ` Julien Grall
2016-06-22 16:35       ` Corneliu ZUZU
2016-06-22 17:17         ` Julien Grall
2016-06-22 18:39           ` Corneliu ZUZU
2016-06-22 19:37             ` Corneliu ZUZU
2016-06-22 19:41               ` Julien Grall [this message]
2016-06-23  5:31                 ` Corneliu ZUZU
2016-06-23  5:49                   ` Corneliu ZUZU
2016-06-23 11:11                     ` Julien Grall
2016-06-24  9:32                       ` Corneliu ZUZU
2016-06-23 11:00           ` Julien Grall

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