[PATCH v2 0/6] KVM: arm64: emulation for CTR_EL0

From: Sebastian Ott
Date: Fri Apr 26 2024 - 06:51:22 EST


Hej folks,

I'm looking into supporting migration between 2 Ampere Altra (Max)
machines (using Neoverse-N1). They are almost identical regarding
their feature id register state except for CTR_EL0.DIC which is set
on one machine but not the other.

CTR_EL0 is currently marked as invariant and migrating a VM between
those 2 machines using qemu fails.

Changes RFC [0] -> V1 [1]:
* store the emulated value per VM and not per VCPU
* allow to change more values than just the DIC bit
* only trap guest access to that reg when needed
* make sure to not present the guest with an inconsistent register set
Changes V1 -> V2:
* implemented Marc's suggestion for keeping registers consistent while
not breaking userspace ABI / expectations (I hope correctly this time)
* keep the shadowed value valid at all time
* unify the code to setup traps

Note:
* in order to switch off CTR_EL0.IDC userspace first has to set up
CLIDR_EL1 accordingly
* reading CCSIDR before and after changing the cache size in CTR_EL0
could result in different values (but only if CCSIDR was not changed
from the generated value)
* I'll prepare a testcase for the next revision

Thanks,
Sebastian

[0]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240318111636.10613-1-sebott@xxxxxxxxxx/T/
[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240405120108.11844-1-sebott@xxxxxxxxxx/T/

Sebastian Ott (6):
KVM: arm64: change return value in arm64_check_features()
KVM: arm64: unify trap setup code
KVM: arm64: maintain per VM value for CTR_EL0
KVM: arm64: add emulation for CTR_EL0 register
KVM: arm64: show writable masks for feature registers
KVM: arm64: rename functions for invariant sys regs

arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_emulate.h | 37 -----
arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 4 +-
arch/arm64/kvm/arm.c | 3 +-
arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c | 225 ++++++++++++++++++++-------
4 files changed, 173 insertions(+), 96 deletions(-)

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