[U-Boot] [PATCH v5 7/8] ARM: extend non-secure switch to also go into HYP mode

[Albert ARIBAUD]

Hi Christoffer,

On Thu, 3 Oct 2013 19:55:15 +0100, Christoffer Dall
<christoffer.dall at linaro.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 08:24:57AM +0200, Albert ARIBAUD wrote:
> > Hi Andre,
> > 
> > On Thu, 19 Sep 2013 18:06:45 +0200, Andre Przywara
> > <andre.przywara at linaro.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > For the KVM and XEN hypervisors to be usable, we need to enter the
> > > kernel in HYP mode. Now that we already are in non-secure state,
> > > HYP mode switching is within short reach.
> > > 
> > > While doing the non-secure switch, we have to enable the HVC
> > > instruction and setup the HYP mode HVBAR (while still secure).
> > > 
> > > The actual switch is done by dropping back from a HYP mode handler
> > > without actually leaving HYP mode, so we introduce a new handler
> > > routine in our new secure exception vector table.
> > > 
> > > In the assembly switching routine we save and restore the banked LR
> > > and SP registers around the hypercall to do the actual HYP mode
> > > switch.
> > > 
> > > The C routine first checks whether we are in HYP mode already and
> > > also whether the virtualization extensions are available. It also
> > > checks whether the HYP mode switch was finally successful.
> > > The bootm command part only calls the new function after the
> > > non-secure switch.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara at linaro.org>
> > > ---
> > >  arch/arm/cpu/armv7/Makefile      |  2 +-
> > >  arch/arm/cpu/armv7/nonsec_virt.S | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
> > >  arch/arm/cpu/armv7/virt-v7.c     | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > >  arch/arm/include/asm/armv7.h     |  6 ++++--
> > >  arch/arm/lib/bootm.c             |  7 ++++++-
> > >  5 files changed, 86 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > Changes:
> > > v3..v4: w/s fixes, embed error output
> > > v4..v5: none
> > 
> > Seems like Christoffer's comment was not addressed here but IIUC, it
> > was in other files (Christoffer, feel free to comment). Any reason why
> > the "older asm" comments form was not replaced in here?
> >   
> 
> I think these comments are a bit superflous, but not exactly harmful, so
> I didn't raise the flag when they were not corrected.  My thought was
> that if you're building for a board that has support for the
> virtualization extensions you should be using a toolchain that knows
> about them too, but Andre pointed out that his (I think Debian) still
> used an old enough cross toolchain not to have this support.
> 
> In any case, I don't think this warrants holding back the patches but
> can be fixed as a follow-up if the community agrees that we need to
> support older toolchains by some define that encodes the hvc and eret
> instructions properly.

Thanks for the answer. Works for me, although I don't believe much in
followup fixes once the code is in.
  
> Thanks,
> -Christoffer

Amicalement,
-- 
Albert.