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Having a per-vcpu virtual offset is a pain. It needs to be synchronized on each update, and expands badly to a setup where different timers can have different offsets, or have composite offsets (as with NV). So let's start by replacing the use of the CNTVOFF_EL2 shadow register (which we want to reclaim for NV anyway), and make the virtual timer carry a pointer to a VM-wide offset. This simplifies the code significantly. It also addresses two terrible bugs: - The use of CNTVOFF_EL2 leads to some nice offset corruption when the sysreg gets reset, as reported by Joey. - The kvm mutex is taken from a vcpu ioctl, which goes against the locking rules... Reported-by: Joey Gouly <joey.gouly@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Reiji Watanabe <reijiw@google.com> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230224173915.GA17407@e124191.cambridge.arm.com Tested-by: Joey Gouly <joey.gouly@arm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230224191640.3396734-1-maz@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>
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