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From: Oliver Upton <oupton@google.com>
To: dbrazdil@google.com
Cc: hns@goldelico.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, maz@kernel.org,
	sashal@kernel.org, Oliver Upton <oupton@google.com>
Subject: Re: [BUG]: KVM: arm64: Fix symbol dependency in __hyp_call_panic_nvhe
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2021 20:07:56 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210125200756.1249239-1-oupton@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200914133626.hlsvu5kces3wsirr@google.com>

> That means we have two options:
> (a) define __hyp_panic_string in a different .c file in all pre-5.9 branches, or
> (b) revert the backported patch.
> 
> The patch was needed in 5.9 and should stay there. It wasn't needed in earlier
> versions because the symbol was being kept alive by another user. It did "fix"
> the inline asm semantics, but the problem was never triggered in pre-5.9.
> 
> Sasha, with this and the GCC bug in mind, would you agree that (b) is the
> better course of action?

Sasha,

Any chance we can get this patch reverted as David has suggested? It was
backported to 5.4 LTS in commit 653ae33b030b ("KVM: arm64: Fix symbol dependency in __hyp_call_panic_nvhe")
and is causing build issues with a 4.9.4 vintage of GCC.

Thanks!

--
Oliver

  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-25 20:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-07 13:29 [BUG]: KVM: arm64: Fix symbol dependency in __hyp_call_panic_nvhe H. Nikolaus Schaller
2020-09-07 14:22 ` Sasha Levin
2020-09-07 14:42   ` H. Nikolaus Schaller
2020-09-14 13:36     ` David Brazdil
2021-01-25 20:07       ` Oliver Upton [this message]
2021-01-25 20:56         ` Marc Zyngier
2021-01-26 18:23           ` Oliver Upton

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