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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 2/4] arm: processor: add new struct hsr_smc32 into hsr union



Hi Julien,

On 09.08.17 23:34, Julien Grall wrote:


On 09/08/2017 20:44, Volodymyr Babchuk wrote:
On ARMv8, one of conditional exceptions (SMC that originates
from aarch32 state) have extra field in HCR.ISS encoding:

s/aarch32/AArch32/
s/have/has/

And the register is called HSR and not HCR.


CCKNOWNPASS, bit [19]
Indicates whether the instruction might have failed its condition
code check.
   0 - The instruction was unconditional, or was conditional and
   passed  its condition code check.
   1 - The instruction was conditional, and might have failed its
   condition code check.
(ARM DDI 0487A.k page D7-1949)

Please use the latest ARM ARM.


This is instruction specific field, so better to add new structure

This is an instruction...

to union hsr. This structure describes ISS encoding for an exception
from SMC instruction execution in AArch32 state. But we define this
struct for both ARMv7 and ARMv8. The reason is described in comment
to the structure:

"Nevertheless, we define this encoding for both ARMv7 and ARMv8,
because check_conditional_inst() should properly handle SMC
instruction in all modes: ARMv7, aarch32 and aarch64."

Hmmm. There are only two existing modes: AArch32 and AArch64. ARMv7 is just a version of the specification which happen to only support AArch32.
Yeah, I wondered how to formulate that better. Problem is that ARMv7
specification does not use term "AArch32". So I decided to mention ARMv7 explicitly. How about this: "check_conditional_inst() should properly handle SMC instruction on both architectures (ARMv7 and ARMv8) while running in aarch32 or aarch64 mode" ?

Actually Xen does not care about ARMv8 vs ARMv7. It only care about AArch32 vs AArch64.
Yes. And probably it can be problem in the future. Because, as we can see, there are differences between ARMv7 and ARMv8.


Signed-off-by: Volodymyr Babchuk <volodymyr_babchuk@xxxxxxxx>
---

- Created new stucture for HSR_EC_SMC32 instead of extending
  fields in hsr.cond.
- Added references to ARM manual.
- Wrote comment with rationale.

---
 xen/include/asm-arm/processor.h | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)

diff --git a/xen/include/asm-arm/processor.h b/xen/include/asm-arm/processor.h
index f640d54..af4a0f7 100644
--- a/xen/include/asm-arm/processor.h
+++ b/xen/include/asm-arm/processor.h
@@ -488,6 +488,25 @@ union hsr {
         unsigned long ec:6;     /* Exception Class */
     } cp; /* HSR_EC_CP */

+    /*
+ * This encoding is valid only for ARMv8 (ARM DDI 0487A.k pages D7-1949 and + * G6-4405). On ARMv7, encoding ISS for EC=0x13 is defined as UNK/SBZP + * (ARM DDI 0406C.c page B3-1431). UNK/SBZP means that hardware implements
+     * this field as Read-As-Zero.
+     *
+ * Nevertheless, we define this encoding for both ARMv7 and ARMv8, because + * check_conditional_inst() should properly handle SMC instruction in all
+     * modes: ARMv7, aarch32 and aarch64.

See my comment above.

+     */
+    struct hsr_smc32 {
+        unsigned long res0:19;  /* Reserved */
+ unsigned long ccknownpass:1; /* Instruction passed conditional check */
+        unsigned long cc:4;    /* Condition Code */
+        unsigned long ccvalid:1;/* CC Valid */
+        unsigned long len:1;   /* Instruction length */
+        unsigned long ec:6;    /* Exception Class */
+    } smc32; /* HSR_EC_SMC32 */
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_ARM_64
     struct hsr_sysreg {
         unsigned long read:1;   /* Direction */


Cheers,


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