Re: [PATCH v4 09/18] KVM: arm64: selftests: Add guest support to get the vcpuid

[Raghavendra Rao Ananta]

On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 12:35 AM Andrew Jones <drjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Sep 12, 2021 at 12:05:22AM -0700, Reiji Watanabe wrote:
> > Hi Raghu and all,
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 8, 2021 at 6:38 PM Raghavendra Rao Ananta
> > <rananta@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > At times, such as when in the interrupt handler, the guest wants
> > > to get the vcpuid that it's running on. As a result, introduce
> > > get_vcpuid() that returns the vcpuid of the calling vcpu. At its
> > > backend, the VMM prepares a map of vcpuid and mpidr during VM
> > > initialization and exports the map to the guest for it to read.
> >
> > How about using TPIDR_EL1 to hold the vcpuid ?
> > i.e. have aarch64_vcpu_setup() set the register to vcpuid and
> > guest_get_vcpuid() simply return a value of the register.
> > This would be a simpler solution to implement.
>
> That is a great suggestion. It's arch-specific, but maybe the
> other architectures can mimic it with their own capabilities.
> And, in the unlikely event a unit test wants that register for
> itself, then it can build its own mpidr-vcpuid map if necessary.
> Ship it :-)
>
Thanks for the suggestion, Reiji. I'll send out a patch soon for this.

Regards,
Raghavendra
> Thanks,
> drew
>