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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virt/kvm/api.txt | 9 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.txt index ebb37b34dcfc..3a0c819c3573 100644 --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.txt +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.txt @@ -2196,6 +2196,15 @@ arm64 CCSIDR registers are demultiplexed by CSSELR value: arm64 system registers have the following id bit patterns: 0x6030 0000 0013 <op0:2> <op1:3> <crn:4> <crm:4> <op2:3> +WARNING: + Two system register IDs do not follow the specified pattern. These + are KVM_REG_ARM_TIMER_CVAL and KVM_REG_ARM_TIMER_CNT, which map to + system registers CNTV_CVAL_EL0 and CNTVCT_EL0 respectively. These + two had their values accidentally swapped, which means TIMER_CVAL is + derived from the register encoding for CNTVCT_EL0 and TIMER_CNT is + derived from the register encoding for CNTV_CVAL_EL0. As this is + API, it must remain this way. + arm64 firmware pseudo-registers have the following bit pattern: 0x6030 0000 0014 <regno:16> |