Re: [RFC PATCH] arm/arm64: KVM: Fix BE accesses to GICv2 EISR and ELRSR regs

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On 14 October 2014 02:47, Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 28 2014 at 03:04:26 PM, Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> The EIRSR and ELRSR registers are 32-bit registers on GICv2, and we
>> store these as an array of two such registers on the vgic vcpu struct.
>> However, we access them as a single 64-bit value or as a bitmap pointer
>> in the generic vgic code, which breaks BE support.
>>
>> Instead, store them as u64 values on the vgic structure and do the
>> word-swapping in the assembly code, which already handles the byte order
>> for BE systems.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> (still going through my email backlog, hence the delay).
>
> This looks like a valuable fix. Haven't had a chance to try it (no BE
> setup at hand) but maybe Victor can help reproducing this?.

I'll give it a spin.

Thanks,
Victor

> Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx>
>
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