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-rw-r--r--Documentation/virt/kvm/api.txt9
-rw-r--r--arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h12
2 files changed, 19 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.txt
index ebb37b34dcfc..3a0c819c3573 100644
--- 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 820e5751ada7..ba85bb23f060 100644
--- 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)