On 2020-08-21 13:26, Catalin Marinas wrote:
On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 01:12:10PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 01:07:00PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 03, 2020 at 01:31:27PM -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> > @@ -979,6 +980,14 @@
> >               write_sysreg(__scs_new, sysreg);                        \
> >  } while (0)
> >
> > +#define read_sysreg_par() ({                                         \
> > +     u64 par;                                                        \
> > +     asm(ALTERNATIVE("nop", "dmb sy", ARM64_WORKAROUND_1508412));        \
> > +     par = read_sysreg(par_el1);                                     \
> > +     asm(ALTERNATIVE("nop", "dmb sy", ARM64_WORKAROUND_1508412));        \
> > +     par;                                                            \
> > +})
>
> I was about to queue this up but one more point to clarify: can we get
> an interrupt at either side of the PAR_EL1 read and the handler do a
> device read, triggering the erratum? Do we need a DMB at exception
> entry/return?

Disabling irqs around the PAR access would be simpler, I think (assuming
this is needed).

This wouldn't work if it interrupts a guest.

If we take an interrupt either side of the PAR_EL1 read and that we
fully exit, the saving of PAR_EL1 on the way out solves the problem.

If we don't fully exit, but instead reenter the guest immediately
(fixup_guest_exit() returns true), we'd need a DMB at that point,
at least because of the GICv2 proxying code which performs device
accesses on the guest's behalf.

Thanks,

        M.
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