Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 17/24] kvm: arm64: Add __hyp_pa_symbol helper macro

From: Marc Zyngier <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2020 18:10:05 +0000

On 2020-11-09 16:59, Quentin Perret wrote:
> Hey David,
> 
> On Monday 09 Nov 2020 at 11:32:26 (+0000), David Brazdil wrote:
>> Add helper macro for computing the PA of a kernel symbol in nVHE hyp
>> code. This will be useful for computing the PA of a PSCI CPU_ON entry
>> point.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: David Brazdil <[email-masked]>
>> ---
>>  arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/psci.c | 10 ++++++++++
>>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
>> 
>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/psci.c 
>> b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/psci.c
>> index b0b5df590ba5..7510b9e174e9 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/psci.c
>> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/psci.c
>> @@ -20,6 +20,16 @@ s64 hyp_physvirt_offset;
>> 
>>  #define __hyp_pa(x) ((phys_addr_t)((x)) + hyp_physvirt_offset)
>> 
>> +#define __hyp_pa_symbol(sym)					\
>> +	({							\
>> +		extern char sym[];				\
>> +		unsigned long kern_va;				\
>> +								\
>> +		asm volatile("ldr %0, =%1" : "=r" (kern_va)	\
>> +					   : "S" (sym));	\
>> +		kern_va - kimage_voffset;			\
>> +	})
>> +
> 
> Could this be simplified to __hyp_pa(hyp_symbol_addr(sym))? That would
> avoid the dependency on kimage_voffset.

I'm going to move away from evaluating kimage_voffset at runtime anyway,
see [1].

Thanks,

         M.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email-masked]
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