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From: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
To: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	Raphael Gault <raphael.gault@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] arm64: Restrict undef hook for cpufeature registers
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2021 17:34:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210608163459.GA10994@willie-the-truck> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210608152042.GG17957@arm.com>

On Tue, Jun 08, 2021 at 04:20:43PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 01:02:56PM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
> > From: Raphael Gault <raphael.gault@arm.com>
> > 
> > This commit modifies the mask of the mrs_hook declared in
> > arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeatures.c which emulates only feature register
> > access. This is necessary because this hook's mask was too large and
> > thus masking any mrs instruction, even if not related to the emulated
> > registers which made the pmu emulation inefficient.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Raphael Gault <raphael.gault@arm.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
> > ---
> > I don't *think* I'm going to need this for the perf userspace counter 
> > access, but this patch stands on its own as the PMU registers are not 
> > emulated. So please apply it.
> > 
> > v2:
> >  - Fix warning for set but unused sys_reg
> > ---
> >  arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c | 4 ++--
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
> > index efed2830d141..c773f7c3c007 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
> > @@ -2905,8 +2905,8 @@ static int emulate_mrs(struct pt_regs *regs, u32 insn)
> >  }
> >  
> >  static struct undef_hook mrs_hook = {
> > -	.instr_mask = 0xfff00000,
> > -	.instr_val  = 0xd5300000,
> > +	.instr_mask = 0xffff0000,
> > +	.instr_val  = 0xd5380000,
> 
> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
> 
> and changing Will's email address.

Should we update is_emulated() at the same time, or at least try to generate
the instr_val value here using the same constants?

Will

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-06-08 16:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-17 18:02 [PATCH v2] arm64: Restrict undef hook for cpufeature registers Rob Herring
2021-06-08 15:20 ` Catalin Marinas
2021-06-08 16:34   ` Will Deacon [this message]
2021-06-11 16:04     ` Rob Herring
2021-06-23 14:00 ` Will Deacon

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