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Christoffer Dall 6d56111c92 KVM: arm/arm64: vgic: Fix GICC_PMR uaccess on GICv3 and clarify ABI
As an oversight, for GICv2, we accidentally export the GICC_PMR register
in the format of the GICH_VMCR.VMPriMask field in the lower 5 bits of a
word, meaning that userspace must always use the lower 5 bits to
communicate with the KVM device and must shift the value left by 3
places to obtain the actual priority mask level.

Since GICv3 supports the full 8 bits of priority masking in the ICH_VMCR,
we have to fix the value we export when emulating a GICv2 on top of a
hardware GICv3 and exporting the emulated GICv2 state to userspace.

Take the chance to clarify this aspect of the ABI.

Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <cdall@linaro.org>
2017-04-04 14:33:59 +02:00
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kvm KVM: arm/arm64: vgic: Fix GICC_PMR uaccess on GICv3 and clarify ABI 2017-04-04 14:33:59 +02:00
uml Documentation: Update path to sysrq.txt 2017-03-03 15:48:38 -07:00
00-INDEX virtual: Documentation: simplify and generalize paravirt_ops.txt 2015-02-13 17:15:44 +10:30
paravirt_ops.txt virtual: Documentation: simplify and generalize paravirt_ops.txt 2015-02-13 17:15:44 +10:30