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* [PATCH] MdePkg/BaseIoLibIntrinsicArmVirt ARM: avoid double word loads and stores
@ 2018-11-07 13:13 Ard Biesheuvel
  2018-11-07 13:38 ` Ard Biesheuvel
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Ard Biesheuvel @ 2018-11-07 13:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: edk2-devel
  Cc: lersek, liming.gao, michael.d.kinney, marc.zyngier, leif.lindholm,
	Ard Biesheuvel

BaseIoLibIntrinsicArmVirt was created to prevent LTO from merging
accesses to MMIO regions, resulting in instructions with multiple
output registers that KVM on ARM cannot emulate (since the exception
syndrome information that KVM relies on can only describe a single
output register)

However, using double word loads on ARM amounts to the same thing,
and so code that relies on doing 64-bit MMIO to regions that are
emulated under KVM (such as the GICv3 TYPER register) will still
suffer from the original issue.

So replace ldrd and strd with equivalent two instruction sequences.

Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.1
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
---
 MdePkg/Library/BaseIoLibIntrinsic/Arm/ArmVirtMmio.S | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/MdePkg/Library/BaseIoLibIntrinsic/Arm/ArmVirtMmio.S b/MdePkg/Library/BaseIoLibIntrinsic/Arm/ArmVirtMmio.S
index 3ad22bd5706d..0d802d6928d6 100644
--- a/MdePkg/Library/BaseIoLibIntrinsic/Arm/ArmVirtMmio.S
+++ b/MdePkg/Library/BaseIoLibIntrinsic/Arm/ArmVirtMmio.S
@@ -125,7 +125,8 @@ ASM_PFX(MmioWrite32Internal):
 //  @return The value read.
 //
 ASM_PFX(MmioRead64Internal):
-  ldrd    r0, r1, [r0]
+  ldr     r1, [r0, #4]
+  ldr     r0, [r0]
   dmb
   bx      lr
 
@@ -141,5 +142,6 @@ ASM_PFX(MmioRead64Internal):
 //
 ASM_PFX(MmioWrite64Internal):
   dmb     st
-  strd    r2, r3, [r0]
+  str     r2, [r0]
+  str     r3, [r0, #4]
   bx      lr
-- 
2.19.1



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