Re: [PATCH v2 04/10] kvm: arm64: Remove hyp_adr/ldr_this_cpu

From: Andrew Scull
Date: Thu Sep 10 2020 - 08:41:12 EST


On Thu, Sep 03, 2020 at 11:17:06AM +0200, 'David Brazdil' via kernel-team wrote:
> The hyp_adr/ldr_this_cpu helpers were introduced for use in hyp code
> because they always needed to use TPIDR_EL2 for base, while
> adr/ldr_this_cpu from kernel proper would select between TPIDR_EL2 and
> _EL1 based on VHE/nVHE.
>
> Simplify this now that the nVHE hyp mode case can be handled using the
> __KVM_NVHE_HYPERVISOR__ macro. VHE selects _EL2 with alternatives.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Brazdil <dbrazdil@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Andrew Scull <ascull@xxxxxxxxxx>

> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h
> index 54d181177656..b392a977efb6 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/assembler.h
> @@ -218,6 +218,21 @@ lr .req x30 // link register
> str \src, [\tmp, :lo12:\sym]
> .endm
>
> + /*
> + * @dst: destination register (32 or 64 bit wide)
> + */
> + .macro this_cpu_offset, dst
> +#ifdef __KVM_NVHE_HYPERVISOR__
> + mrs \dst, tpidr_el2

Another part that might also apply to __KVM_VHE_HYPERVISOR__.

> +#else
> +alternative_if_not ARM64_HAS_VIRT_HOST_EXTN
> + mrs \dst, tpidr_el1
> +alternative_else
> + mrs \dst, tpidr_el2
> +alternative_endif
> +#endif
> + .endm