From: Julien Grall <julien@xen.org>
To: Michal Orzel <michal.orzel@arm.com>, 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 07/10] xen/arm: Always access SCTLR_EL2 using READ/WRITE_SYSREG()
Date: Wed, 5 May 2021 19:07:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <758c4de0-f31e-78fc-7db6-878acb5f6f54@xen.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210505074308.11016-8-michal.orzel@arm.com>
Hi Michal,
On 05/05/2021 08:43, Michal Orzel wrote:
> The Armv8 specification describes the system register as a 64-bit value
> on AArch64 and 32-bit value on AArch32 (same as ARMv7).
>
> Unfortunately, Xen is accessing the system registers using
> READ/WRITE_SYSREG32() which means the top 32-bit are clobbered.
>
> This is only a latent bug so far because Xen will not yet use the top
> 32-bit.
>
> There is also no change in behavior because arch/arm/arm64/head.S will
> initialize SCTLR_EL2 to a sane value with the top 32-bit zeroed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michal Orzel <michal.orzel@arm.com>
Acked-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com>
Cheers,
--
Julien Grall
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-05 18:08 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
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 [this message]
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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