Re: [PATCH 3/3] target/arm: Handle trapping to EL2 of AArch32 VMRS instructions

[Peter Maydell]

On Thu, 28 Nov 2019 at 17:49, Marc Zyngier <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hi Peter,
>
> Thanks for having a look at this.
>
> On 2019-11-28 16:43, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > On Thu, 28 Nov 2019 at 16:17, Marc Zyngier <address@hidden> wrote:
> >>
> >> HCR_EL2.TID3 requires that AArch32 reads of MVFR[012] are trapped to
> >> EL2, and that HCR_EL2.TID0 does the same for reads of FPSID.
> >> In order to handle this, introduce a new TCG helper function that
> >> checks for these control bits before executing the VMRC instruction.
> >>
> >> Tested with a hacked-up version of KVM/arm64 that sets the control
> >> bits for 32bit guests.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <address@hidden>

> > Since the syndrome value depends only on these two things,
> > you might as well generate the full syndrome value at
> > translate time rather than doing it at runtime; then
> > you only need to pass one thing through to the helper rather
> > than two.
>
> OK. This means that the register check in check_hcr_el2_trap
> will need to extract the register value from the syndrome.
> Not a big deal, but maybe slightly less readable.

Oops, I hadn't noticed that we were switching on reg.
Yeah, you might as well leave it as is. (We could have
a separate helper for each of TID0 and TID3 but that
seems like overkill.)

> On a vaguely tangential subject, how are conditional instructions
> JIT-ed? I could perfectly imagine a conditional VMRS instruction,
> but none of the code I looked at seem to care about it. Or is
> that done before the access itself is actually emitted?

Arm conditional instructions are handled at a pretty
high level in the decode, because they all work the same way.
In disas_arm_insn() we have:

    if (cond != 0xe) {
        /* if not always execute, we generate a conditional jump to
           next instruction */
        arm_skip_unless(s, cond);
    }

and there's something similar in thumb_tr_translate_insn()
which puts in a branch based on the thumb condexec bits.
The target of the branch is a label whose position is
set either in arm_post_translate_insn() after the code for the
insn is emitted, or in arm_tr_tb_stop() if the insn is
the last in the TB (always true for branch or trap insns).

thanks
-- PMM