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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 6/9] xen: arm: Handle CP14 32-bit register accesses from userspace





On 10/02/2015 11:40, Ian Campbell wrote:
On Wed, 2014-09-10 at 10:48 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
On Tue, 2014-09-09 at 16:45 -0700, Julien Grall wrote:
Hi Ian,

On 09/09/14 09:23, Ian Campbell wrote:
Accesses to these from 32-bit userspace would cause a hypervisor exception
(host crash) when running a 64-bit kernel, which is worked around by the fix to
XSA-102. On 32-bit kernels they would be implemented as RAZ/WI which is
incorrect but harmless.

Update as follows:
   - DBGDSCRINT should be R/O.
   - DBGDSCREXT should be EL1 only.
   - DBGOSLAR is RO and EL1 only.
   - DBGVCR, DBGB[VC]R*, DBGW[VC]R*, and DBGOSDLR are EL1 only.

DBGDIDR and DBGDSCRINT are accessible from EL0 if DBGDSCRext.UDCCdis. Since we
emulate that as RAZ/WI we allow access.

Shall we just set DBGDSCRext.UDCCdis to avoid taking care of EL0 access?

I'd need to lookup what the acceptable reset states for that bit are,
but perhaps.

The AArch32 version of this bit resets to 0, so I think the code is OK
as it is, at least for now.

I'd like to implement proper handling of dbg registers sooner rather
than later, but I think this series should go in first and the the dbg
stuff can be built on it later.

I'm fine with that. Let's have a 32-bit userspace support on 64-bit kernel before :).

Regards,


--
Julien Grall

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