On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 04:46:28PM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> On 14/09/15 16:06, Will Deacon wrote:
> > When restoring the system register state for an AArch32 guest at EL2,
> > writes to DACR32_EL2 may not be correctly synchronised by Cortex-A57,
> > which can lead to the guest effectively running with junk in the DACR
> > and running into unexpected domain faults.
> > 
> > This patch works around the issue by re-ordering our restoration of the
> > AArch32 register aliases so that they happen before the AArch64 system
> > registers. Ensuring that the registers are restored in this order
> > guarantees that they will be correctly synchronised by the core.
> > 
> > Cc: <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Marc Zyngier <[email protected]>
> > Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier <[email protected]>
> 
> I'll queue that together with the next batch of fixes.

Great, thanks Marc.

Will
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