Re: HCPTR cp15 writes need isb?

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On Tue, 16 Jun 2015 02:34:23 +0100
Vikram Sethi <vikrams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Vikram,

> Hi Marc, Christoffer, Catalin, Will,
> 
> I'm seeing an issue with KVM HCPTR (cp15) writes on guest entry/exit
> on one of Qualcomm's CPU cores in AArch32 host and AArch32 guest
> mode. Our CPU architects believe that HCPTR cp15 writes are context
> changing and require an isb. With an isb in set_hcptr macro in
> arch/arm/kvm/interrupts_head.S I am able to boot the Aarch32 guest,
> but without it, I see strange crashes to hyp_undef or hyp_pabt.

[...]

Can you look at the following patch (queued for 4.2)?

http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2015-March/330955.html

Please let me know if this solves the issue you are seeing.

Thanks,

	M.
-- 
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