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Documentation/kvm/arm: improve description of HVC_SOFT_RESTART
Besides disabling MMU, HVC_SOFT_RESTART also clears I+D bits. These behaviors are what kexec-reboot expects, so describe it more precisely. Signed-off-by: Pingfan Liu <kernelfans@gmail.com> Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Julien Thierry <julien.thierry.kdev@gmail.com> Cc: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1598621998-20563-2-git-send-email-kernelfans@gmail.com To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
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Documentation/virt/kvm/arm/hyp-abi.rst

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x3 = x1's value when entering the next payload (arm64)
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x4 = x2's value when entering the next payload (arm64)
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Mask all exceptions, disable the MMU, move the arguments into place
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(arm64 only), and jump to the restart address while at HYP/EL2. This
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hypercall is not expected to return to its caller.
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Mask all exceptions, disable the MMU, clear I+D bits, move the arguments
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into place (arm64 only), and jump to the restart address while at HYP/EL2.
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This hypercall is not expected to return to its caller.
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Any other value of r0/x0 triggers a hypervisor-specific handling,
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which is not documented here.

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