Re: [PATCH v4 09/18] KVM: arm64: selftests: Add guest support to get the vcpuid
From: Raghavendra Rao Ananta <hidden>
Date: 2021-09-13 16:51:51
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From: Raghavendra Rao Ananta <hidden>
Date: 2021-09-13 16:51:51
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On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 12:35 AM Andrew Jones [off-list ref] wrote:
On Sun, Sep 12, 2021 at 12:05:22AM -0700, Reiji Watanabe wrote:quoted
Hi Raghu and all, On Wed, Sep 8, 2021 at 6:38 PM Raghavendra Rao Ananta [off-list ref] wrote:quoted
At times, such as when in the interrupt handler, the guest wants to get the vcpuid that it's running on. As a result, introduce get_vcpuid() that returns the vcpuid of the calling vcpu. At its backend, the VMM prepares a map of vcpuid and mpidr during VM initialization and exports the map to the guest for it to read.How about using TPIDR_EL1 to hold the vcpuid ? i.e. have aarch64_vcpu_setup() set the register to vcpuid and guest_get_vcpuid() simply return a value of the register. This would be a simpler solution to implement.That is a great suggestion. It's arch-specific, but maybe the other architectures can mimic it with their own capabilities. And, in the unlikely event a unit test wants that register for itself, then it can build its own mpidr-vcpuid map if necessary. Ship it :-)
Thanks for the suggestion, Reiji. I'll send out a patch soon for this. Regards, Raghavendra
Thanks, drew
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