arm64: KVM: Add UAPI notes for swapped registers

Two UAPI system register IDs do not derive their values from the
ARM system register encodings. This is because their values were
accidentally swapped. As the IDs are API, they cannot be changed.
Add WARNING notes to point them out.

Suggested-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>
[maz: turned XXX into WARNING]
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200120130825.28838-1-drjones@redhat.com

diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.txt
index ebb37b34dcfc61b29599da7db899b2bfc807f15b..3a0c819c357327ee0d7da4677e33c5a74ec379e9 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.txt
+++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.txt
@@ -2196,6 +2196,15 @@ arm64 CCSIDR registers are demultiplexed by CSSELR value:
 arm64 system registers have the following id bit patterns:
   0x6030 0000 0013 <op0:2> <op1:3> <crn:4> <crm:4> <op2:3>
 
+WARNING:
+     Two system register IDs do not follow the specified pattern.  These
+     are KVM_REG_ARM_TIMER_CVAL and KVM_REG_ARM_TIMER_CNT, which map to
+     system registers CNTV_CVAL_EL0 and CNTVCT_EL0 respectively.  These
+     two had their values accidentally swapped, which means TIMER_CVAL is
+     derived from the register encoding for CNTVCT_EL0 and TIMER_CNT is
+     derived from the register encoding for CNTV_CVAL_EL0.  As this is
+     API, it must remain this way.
+
 arm64 firmware pseudo-registers have the following bit pattern:
   0x6030 0000 0014 <regno:16>
 

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h b/arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h
index 820e5751ada71ab1ce0e08b90e026d4a9231dd36..ba85bb23f06017b4ed401da32167c057d526b1d0 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h
@@ -220,10 +220,18 @@ struct kvm_vcpu_events {
 #define KVM_REG_ARM_PTIMER_CVAL                ARM64_SYS_REG(3, 3, 14, 2, 2)
 #define KVM_REG_ARM_PTIMER_CNT         ARM64_SYS_REG(3, 3, 14, 0, 1)
 
-/* EL0 Virtual Timer Registers */
+/*
+ * EL0 Virtual Timer Registers
+ *
+ * WARNING:
+ *      KVM_REG_ARM_TIMER_CVAL and KVM_REG_ARM_TIMER_CNT are not defined
+ *      with the appropriate register encodings.  Their values have been
+ *      accidentally swapped.  As this is set API, the definitions here
+ *      must be used, rather than ones derived from the encodings.
+ */
 #define KVM_REG_ARM_TIMER_CTL          ARM64_SYS_REG(3, 3, 14, 3, 1)
-#define KVM_REG_ARM_TIMER_CNT          ARM64_SYS_REG(3, 3, 14, 3, 2)
 #define KVM_REG_ARM_TIMER_CVAL         ARM64_SYS_REG(3, 3, 14, 0, 2)
+#define KVM_REG_ARM_TIMER_CNT          ARM64_SYS_REG(3, 3, 14, 3, 2)
 
 /* KVM-as-firmware specific pseudo-registers */
 #define KVM_REG_ARM_FW                 (0x0014 << KVM_REG_ARM_COPROC_SHIFT)