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Commit 7d450e28 authored by Andre Przywara's avatar Andre Przywara Committed by Christoffer Dall
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KVM: arm/arm64: vgic-new: Add userland access to VGIC dist registers



Userland may want to save and restore the state of the in-kernel VGIC,
so we provide the code which takes a userland request and translate
that into calls to our MMIO framework.

From Christoffer:
When accessing the VGIC state from userspace we really don't want a VCPU
to be messing with the state at the same time, and the API specifies
that we should return -EBUSY if any VCPUs are running.
Check and prevent VCPUs from running by grabbing their mutexes, one by
one, and error out if we fail.
(Note: This could potentially be simplified to just do a simple check
and see if any VCPUs are running, and return -EBUSY then, without
enforcing the locking throughout the duration of the uaccess, if we
think that taking/releasing all these mutexes for every single GIC
register access is too heavyweight.)

Signed-off-by: default avatarAndre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
parent c3199f28
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