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    KVM: arm/arm64: vgic: Let userspace opt-in to writable v2 IGROUPR · 32f8777e
    Christoffer Dall authored
    Simply letting IGROUPR be writable from userspace would break
    migration from old kernels to newer kernels, because old kernels
    incorrectly report interrupt groups as group 1.  This would not be a big
    problem if userspace wrote GICD_IIDR as read from the kernel, because we
    could detect the incompatibility and return an error to userspace.
    Unfortunately, this is not the case with current userspace
    implementations and simply letting IGROUPR be writable from userspace for
    an emulated GICv2 silently breaks migration and causes the destination
    VM to no longer run after migration.
    
    We now encourage userspace to write the read and expected value of
    GICD_IIDR as the first part of a GIC register restore, and if we observe
    a write to GICD_IIDR we know that userspace has been updated and has had
    a chance to cope with older kernels (VGICv2 IIDR.Revision == 0)
    incorrectly reporting interrupts as group 1, and therefore we now allow
    groups to be user writable.
    Reviewed-by: default avatarAndrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@arm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMarc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
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