[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH for 4.6] xen/arm: vgic: Correctly emulate write when byte is used
On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 09:18:48PM +0100, Julien Grall wrote: > When a guest is writing a byte, the value will be located in bits[7:0] > of the register. > > Although the current implementation is expecting the byte at the Nth > byte of the register where N = address & 4; > > When the address is not 4-byte aligned, the corresponding byte in the > internal state will always be set to zero rather. > > Note that byte access are only used for GICD_IPRIORITYR and > GICD_ITARGETSR. So the worst things that could happen is not setting the > priority correctly and ignore the target vCPU written. > > Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@xxxxxxxxxx> > Subject to an ack / review from ARM folks: Release-acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > > This patch is a candidate for Xen 4.6 and backport to Xen 4.5 and Xen > 4.4. Without it, write a byte to a register won't work as expected. > > Spotted while doing some test on the vGICv2 driver. FWIW, Linux doesn't > use byte access in both GICv3 and GICv2 driver. > > Note that Xen 4.4 will require a different patch because the function > was living in vgic.c at that time. > --- > xen/include/asm-arm/vgic.h | 4 ++-- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/xen/include/asm-arm/vgic.h b/xen/include/asm-arm/vgic.h > index 41cadb1..96839f0 100644 > --- a/xen/include/asm-arm/vgic.h > +++ b/xen/include/asm-arm/vgic.h > @@ -174,10 +174,10 @@ static inline void vgic_byte_write(uint32_t *reg, > uint32_t var, int offset) > { > int byte = offset & 0x3; > > - var &= (0xff << (8*byte)); > + var &= 0xff; > > *reg &= ~(0xff << (8*byte)); > - *reg |= var; > + *reg |= (var << (8*byte)); > } > > enum gic_sgi_mode; > -- > 2.1.4 _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
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