From: Michal Orzel <michal.orzel@arm.com>
To: Julien Grall <julien@xen.org>, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>,
Volodymyr Babchuk <Volodymyr_Babchuk@epam.com>,
bertrand.marquis@arm.com, wei.chen@arm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 02/10] arm/domain: Get rid of READ/WRITE_SYSREG32
Date: Thu, 6 May 2021 08:13:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <795c63a5-76fc-0de4-d3be-ac3b9d90fa58@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fd49021f-c437-fd0c-b3a8-e3a237e633be@xen.org>
Hi Julien,
On 05.05.2021 20:03, Julien Grall wrote:
> Hi Michal,
>
> On 05/05/2021 08:43, Michal Orzel wrote:
>> AArch64 registers are 64bit whereas AArch32 registers
>> are 32bit or 64bit. MSR/MRS are expecting 64bit values thus
>> we should get rid of helpers READ/WRITE_SYSREG32
>> in favour of using READ/WRITE_SYSREG.
>> We should also use register_t type when reading sysregs
>> which can correspond to uint64_t or uint32_t.
>> Even though many AArch64 registers have upper 32bit reserved
>> it does not mean that they can't be widen in the future.
>>
>> Modify type of register cntkctl to register_t.
>>
>> Modify accesses to thumbee registers to use READ/WRITE_SYSREG.
>> Thumbee registers are only usable by a 32bit domain and in fact
>> should be only accessed on ARMv7 as they were retrospectively dropped
>> on ARMv8.
>
> Sorry for not replying on v2. How about:
>
> "
> Thumbee registers are only usable by a 32-bit domain and therefore we can just store the bottom 32-bit (IOW there is no type change). In fact, this could technically be restricted to Armv7 HW (the support was dropped retrospectively in Armv8) but leave it as-is for now.
> "
>
> If you are happy with it, I will do it on commit.
>
I am happy with it. Please ack and change it on commit.
Thanks.
> Cheers,
>
Cheers,
Michal
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-06 6:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-05 7:42 [PATCH v3 00/10] arm64: Get rid of READ/WRITE_SYSREG32 Michal Orzel
2021-05-05 7:42 ` [PATCH v3 01/10] arm64/vfp: " Michal Orzel
2021-05-05 7:43 ` [PATCH v3 02/10] arm/domain: " Michal Orzel
2021-05-05 18:03 ` Julien Grall
2021-05-06 6:13 ` Michal Orzel [this message]
2021-05-10 17:02 ` Julien Grall
2021-05-05 7:43 ` [PATCH v3 03/10] arm: Modify type of actlr to register_t Michal Orzel
2021-05-05 18:04 ` Julien Grall
2021-05-05 7:43 ` [PATCH v3 04/10] arm/gic: Remove member hcr of structure gic_v3 Michal Orzel
2021-05-05 7:43 ` [PATCH v3 05/10] arm/gic: Get rid of READ/WRITE_SYSREG32 Michal Orzel
2021-05-05 18:06 ` Julien Grall
2021-05-05 7:43 ` [PATCH v3 06/10] arm/p2m: " Michal Orzel
2021-05-05 7:43 ` [PATCH v3 07/10] xen/arm: Always access SCTLR_EL2 using READ/WRITE_SYSREG() Michal Orzel
2021-05-05 18:07 ` Julien Grall
2021-05-05 7:43 ` [PATCH v3 08/10] arm/page: Get rid of READ/WRITE_SYSREG32 Michal Orzel
2021-05-05 7:43 ` [PATCH v3 09/10] arm/time,vtimer: " Michal Orzel
2021-05-05 7:43 ` [PATCH v3 10/10] arm64: Change type of hsr, cpsr, spsr_el1 to uint64_t Michal Orzel
2021-05-05 8:00 ` Jan Beulich
2021-05-05 11:49 ` Tamas K Lengyel
2021-05-11 6:37 ` Michal Orzel
2021-05-12 17:59 ` Julien Grall
2021-05-12 18:14 ` Andrew Cooper
2021-05-17 7:01 ` Jan Beulich
2021-05-17 16:03 ` Julien Grall
2021-05-21 6:33 ` Michal Orzel
2021-05-21 7:07 ` Jan Beulich
2021-06-07 13:16 ` Michal Orzel
2021-06-07 13:31 ` Julien Grall
2021-07-01 8:19 ` Michal Orzel
2021-07-03 14:42 ` Julien Grall
2021-05-10 17:19 ` [PATCH v3 00/10] arm64: Get rid of READ/WRITE_SYSREG32 Julien Grall
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