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SubjectRe: [PATCH] KVM: arm64: Use the correct timer for accessing CNT
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Hi,

On 2020/3/16 17:39, KarimAllah Ahmed wrote:
> Use the physical timer object when reading the physical timer counter
> instead of using the virtual timer object. This is only visible when
> reading it from user-space as kvm_arm_timer_get_reg() is only executed on
> the get register patch from user-space.

s/patch/path/

I think the physical counter hasn't yet been accessed by the current
userspace, wrong?

>
> Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
> Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
> Cc: Julien Thierry <julien.thierry.kdev@gmail.com>
> Cc: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
> Cc: kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@amazon.de>

Reviewed-by: Zenghui Yu <yuzenghui@huawei.com>

And this might also deserve:

Fixes: 84135d3d18da ("KVM: arm/arm64: consolidate arch timer trap handlers")


Thanks.

> ---
> virt/kvm/arm/arch_timer.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/arch_timer.c b/virt/kvm/arm/arch_timer.c
> index 0d9438e..93bd59b 100644
> --- a/virt/kvm/arm/arch_timer.c
> +++ b/virt/kvm/arm/arch_timer.c
> @@ -788,7 +788,7 @@ u64 kvm_arm_timer_get_reg(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 regid)
> vcpu_ptimer(vcpu), TIMER_REG_CTL);
> case KVM_REG_ARM_PTIMER_CNT:
> return kvm_arm_timer_read(vcpu,
> - vcpu_vtimer(vcpu), TIMER_REG_CNT);
> + vcpu_ptimer(vcpu), TIMER_REG_CNT);
> case KVM_REG_ARM_PTIMER_CVAL:
> return kvm_arm_timer_read(vcpu,
> vcpu_ptimer(vcpu), TIMER_REG_CVAL);
>

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