Re: [PATCH v4 03/12] KVM: arm64: guest debug, define API headers

From: Mark Rutland
Date: Fri May 15 2015 - 10:44:40 EST


On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 03:27:06PM +0100, Alex BennÃe wrote:
> This commit defines the API headers for guest debugging. There are two
> architecture specific debug structures:
>
> - kvm_guest_debug_arch, allows us to pass in HW debug registers
> - kvm_debug_exit_arch, signals exception and possible faulting address
>
> The type of debugging being used is controlled by the architecture
> specific control bits of the kvm_guest_debug->control flags in the ioctl
> structure.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alex BennÃe <alex.bennee@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <dahi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones <drjones@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ---
> v2
> - expose hsr and pc directly to user-space
> v3
> - s/control/controlled/ in commit message
> - add v8 to ARM ARM comment (ARM Architecture Reference Manual)
> - add rb tag
> - rm pc, add far
> - re-word comments on alignment
> - rename KVM_ARM_NDBG_REGS -> KVM_ARM_MAX_DBG_REGS
> v4
> - now uses common HW/SW BP define
> - add a-b-tag
> - use u32 for control regs
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h b/arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h
> index d268320..8796610 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h
> @@ -100,10 +100,28 @@ struct kvm_sregs {
> struct kvm_fpu {
> };
>
> +/*
> + * See v8 ARM ARM D7.3: Debug Registers
> + *
> + * The control registers are architecturally defined as 32 bits but are
> + * stored as 64 bit values alongside the value registers. This is done

Stale comment? They're stored as __u32 below.

It's possible that the registers could grow in future as happened in the
case of CLIDR_EL1, so it might be worth treating system registers
generally as u64 values.

Mark.

> + * to keep the copying of these values into the vcpu context simple as
> + * everything is 64 bit aligned (see DBGBCR0_EL1 onwards in kvm_asm.h).
> + *
> + * The architectural limit is 16 debug registers of each type although
> + * in practice there are usually less (see ID_AA64DFR0_EL1).
> + */
> +#define KVM_ARM_MAX_DBG_REGS 16
> struct kvm_guest_debug_arch {
> + __u32 dbg_bcr[KVM_ARM_MAX_DBG_REGS];
> + __u64 dbg_bvr[KVM_ARM_MAX_DBG_REGS];
> + __u32 dbg_wcr[KVM_ARM_MAX_DBG_REGS];
> + __u64 dbg_wvr[KVM_ARM_MAX_DBG_REGS];
> };
>
> struct kvm_debug_exit_arch {
> + __u32 hsr;
> + __u64 far;
> };
>
> struct kvm_sync_regs {
> --
> 2.3.5
>
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