From: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
To: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>, Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/18] arm64: kernel: add helper for booted at EL2 and not VHE
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2021 09:20:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87czt41xum.wl-maz@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+CK2bChDqMKGAG8_rEigWcXRaBN=rnuV_WLnU=1TPjJRtpc5A@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, 02 Jun 2021 02:33:52 +0100,
Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 8:38 AM Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 27 May 2021 16:05:12 +0100,
> > Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Replace places that contain logic like this:
> > > is_hyp_mode_available() && !is_kernel_in_hyp_mode()
> > >
> > > With a dedicated boolean function is_hyp_callable(). This will be needed
> > > later in kexec in order to sooner switch back to EL2.
> >
> > This looks like the very definition of "run in nVHE mode", so I'd
> > rather you call it like this, rather than "callable", which is
> > extremely ambiguous (if running at EL2, I call it any time I want, for
> > free).
>
> Hi Marc,
>
> Naming is hard.
News flash!
> Are you proposing s/is_hyp_callable/run_in_nvhe_mode/ ? This is also
> not a very good name because it does not sound like a boolean, but
> instead that we know that there is nvhe mode available and we can
> switch to it.
No, what I suggest is "is_hyp_nvhe()", or something along those
lines. It clearly identifies that we are in control of EL2, and which
mode it is in.
M.
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Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-27 15:05 [PATCH 00/18] arm64: MMU enabled kexec relocation Pavel Tatashin
2021-05-27 15:05 ` [PATCH 01/18] arm64: hyp-stub: Check the size of the HYP stub's vectors Pavel Tatashin
2021-05-27 15:05 ` [PATCH 02/18] arm64: hyp-stub: Move invalid vector entries into the vectors Pavel Tatashin
2021-05-27 15:05 ` [PATCH 03/18] arm64: hyp-stub: Move elx_sync " Pavel Tatashin
2021-05-27 15:54 ` Marc Zyngier
2021-05-27 21:23 ` Pavel Tatashin
2021-06-01 12:22 ` Marc Zyngier
2021-06-02 1:18 ` Pavel Tatashin
2021-06-08 17:46 ` Pavel Tatashin
2021-05-27 15:05 ` [PATCH 04/18] arm64: kernel: add helper for booted at EL2 and not VHE Pavel Tatashin
2021-06-01 12:38 ` Marc Zyngier
2021-06-02 1:33 ` Pavel Tatashin
2021-06-02 8:20 ` Marc Zyngier [this message]
2021-05-27 15:05 ` [PATCH 05/18] arm64: trans_pgd: hibernate: Add trans_pgd_copy_el2_vectors Pavel Tatashin
2021-05-27 15:05 ` [PATCH 06/18] arm64: hibernate: abstract ttrb0 setup function Pavel Tatashin
2021-05-27 15:05 ` [PATCH 07/18] arm64: kexec: flush image and lists during kexec load time Pavel Tatashin
2021-05-27 15:05 ` [PATCH 08/18] arm64: kexec: skip relocation code for inplace kexec Pavel Tatashin
2021-05-27 15:05 ` [PATCH 09/18] arm64: kexec: Use dcache ops macros instead of open-coding Pavel Tatashin
2021-05-27 15:05 ` [PATCH 10/18] arm64: kexec: pass kimage as the only argument to relocation function Pavel Tatashin
2021-05-27 15:05 ` [PATCH 11/18] arm64: kexec: kexec may require EL2 vectors Pavel Tatashin
2021-05-27 15:05 ` [PATCH 12/18] arm64: kexec: relocate in EL1 mode Pavel Tatashin
2021-05-27 15:05 ` [PATCH 13/18] arm64: kexec: use ld script for relocation function Pavel Tatashin
2021-05-27 15:05 ` [PATCH 14/18] arm64: kexec: install a copy of the linear-map Pavel Tatashin
2021-05-27 15:05 ` [PATCH 15/18] arm64: kexec: keep MMU enabled during kexec relocation Pavel Tatashin
2021-05-27 15:05 ` [PATCH 16/18] arm64: kexec: remove the pre-kexec PoC maintenance Pavel Tatashin
2021-05-27 15:05 ` [PATCH 17/18] arm64: kexec: Remove cpu-reset.h Pavel Tatashin
2021-05-27 15:05 ` [PATCH 18/18] arm64/mm: remove useless trans_pgd_map_page() Pavel Tatashin
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