From: Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>
To: Sergej Proskurin <proskurin@sec.in.tum.de>,
xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 1/8] arm/mem_access: Add (TCR_|TTBCR_)* defines
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2017 16:11:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9cb8580e-26f4-8ef5-7bd9-5fb6f09b84c1@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <109c154d-afef-fb76-653f-3d700da84dfa@arm.com>
On 07/06/17 16:07, Julien Grall wrote:
>
>
> On 07/06/17 15:56, Sergej Proskurin wrote:
>> Hi Julien,
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Also, a lot of the new defines you add are for TCR_EL1 and not TCR_EL2.
>>> Please make the distinction in the name to avoid misusing them.
>>>
>>>> +
>>>> +#define TCR_TB_31 (31)
>>>> #ifdef CONFIG_ARM_64
>>>> #define TCR_PS(x) ((x)<<16)
>>>> #define TCR_TBI (_AC(0x1,UL)<<20)
>>>> +#define TCR_TBI0 (_AC(0x1,UL)<<37)
>>>> +#define TCR_TBI1 (_AC(0x1,UL)<<38)
>>>
>>> Those fields don't exist in TCR_EL2.
>>
>> This is not entirely correct. All of the introduced fields are also
>> available in TCR_EL2, however, only if HCR_EL2.E2H==1. I will comment
>> that appropriately. Do you think that we should use nevertheless
>> different names for the introduced defines?
>
>
> This was added by ARMv8.1. HCR_EL2.E2H = 1 as is to run Host Operating
> System in EL2 (e.g for Type-2 hypervisor). This will very never be used
> by Xen.
>
> In any case, the naming gives the impression it also exists when
> HCR_EL2.E2H = 0.
To clarify my point. They should be named with TCR_EL1_TB* as this is
how it is used in Xen.
Cheers,
--
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Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-01 15:18 [RFC PATCH v2 0/8] arm/mem_access: Walk guest page tables in SW if mem_access is active Sergej Proskurin
2017-06-01 15:18 ` [RFC PATCH v2 1/8] arm/mem_access: Add (TCR_|TTBCR_)* defines Sergej Proskurin
2017-06-02 7:31 ` Julien Grall
2017-06-07 14:56 ` Sergej Proskurin
2017-06-07 15:07 ` Julien Grall
2017-06-07 15:11 ` Julien Grall [this message]
2017-06-01 15:18 ` [RFC PATCH v2 2/8] arm/mem_access: Add defines holding the width of 32/64bit regs Sergej Proskurin
2017-06-01 15:18 ` [RFC PATCH v2 3/8] arm/mem_access: Add defines supporting PTs with varying page sizes Sergej Proskurin
2017-06-02 8:27 ` Julien Grall
2017-06-01 15:18 ` [RFC PATCH v2 4/8] arm/mem_access: Add short-descriptor pte typedefs Sergej Proskurin
2017-06-02 8:50 ` Julien Grall
2017-06-01 15:18 ` [RFC PATCH v2 5/8] arm/mem_access: Add software guest-page-table walk Sergej Proskurin
2017-06-02 9:02 ` Julien Grall
2017-06-08 12:43 ` Sergej Proskurin
2017-06-09 8:19 ` Julien Grall
2017-06-01 15:18 ` [RFC PATCH v2 6/8] arm/mem_access: Add long-descriptor based gpt Sergej Proskurin
2017-06-02 12:55 ` Julien Grall
2017-06-09 11:50 ` Sergej Proskurin
2017-06-09 12:39 ` Julien Grall
2017-06-12 10:12 ` Sergej Proskurin
2017-06-12 10:44 ` Julien Grall
2017-06-12 12:31 ` Sergej Proskurin
2017-06-01 15:18 ` [RFC PATCH v2 7/8] arm/mem_access: Add short-descriptor " Sergej Proskurin
2017-06-02 15:11 ` Julien Grall
2017-06-01 15:18 ` [RFC PATCH v2 8/8] arm/mem_access: Walk the guest's pt in software Sergej Proskurin
2017-06-01 15:18 ` [PATCH 1/8] arm/mem_access: Add (TCR_|TTBCR_)* defines Sergej Proskurin
2017-06-02 15:13 ` Julien Grall
2017-06-03 8:56 ` Sergej Proskurin
2017-06-01 15:19 ` [PATCH 2/8] arm/mem_access: Add defines holding the width of 32/64bit regs Sergej Proskurin
2017-06-01 15:19 ` [PATCH 3/8] arm/mem_access: Add defines supporting PTs with varying page sizes Sergej Proskurin
2017-06-01 15:19 ` [PATCH 4/8] arm/mem_access: Add short-descriptor pte typedefs Sergej Proskurin
2017-06-01 15:19 ` [PATCH 5/8] arm/mem_access: Add software guest-page-table walk Sergej Proskurin
2017-06-01 15:19 ` [PATCH 6/8] arm/mem_access: Add long-descriptor based gpt Sergej Proskurin
2017-06-01 15:19 ` [PATCH 7/8] arm/mem_access: Add short-descriptor " Sergej Proskurin
2017-06-01 15:19 ` [PATCH 8/8] arm/mem_access: Walk the guest's pt in software Sergej Proskurin
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