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    KVM: arm64: Treat emulated TVAL TimerValue as a signed 32-bit integer · 4a267aa7
    Alexandru Elisei authored
    According to the ARM ARM, registers CNT{P,V}_TVAL_EL0 have bits [63:32]
    RES0 [1]. When reading the register, the value is truncated to the least
    significant 32 bits [2], and on writes, TimerValue is treated as a signed
    32-bit integer [1, 2].
    
    When the guest behaves correctly and writes 32-bit values, treating TVAL
    as an unsigned 64 bit register works as expected. However, things start
    to break down when the guest writes larger values, because
    (u64)0x1_ffff_ffff = 8589934591. but (s32)0x1_ffff_ffff = -1, and the
    former will cause the timer interrupt to be asserted in the future, but
    the latter will cause it to be asserted now.  Let's treat TVAL as a
    signed 32-bit register on writes, to match the behaviour described in
    the architecture, and the behaviour experimentally exhibited by the
    virtual timer on a non-vhe host.
    
    [1] Arm DDI 0487E.a, section D13.8.18
    [2] Arm DDI 0487E.a, section D11.2.4
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei@arm.com>
    [maz: replaced the read-side mask with lower_32_bits]
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMarc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
    Fixes: 8fa76162 ("KVM: arm/arm64: arch_timer: Fix CNTP_TVAL calculation")
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200127103652.2326-1-alexandru.elisei@arm.com
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