From: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
To: Quentin Perret <qperret@google.com>
Cc: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>,
Joey Gouly <joey.gouly@arm.com>,
Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>,
Zenghui Yu <yuzenghui@huawei.com>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, kvmarm@lists.linux.dev,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] KVM: arm64: Don't WARN from __pkvm_host_share_guest()
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2025 14:21:04 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <868qpsrdm7.wl-maz@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Z74e17vBiJAgViHQ@google.com>
On Tue, 25 Feb 2025 19:49:43 +0000,
Quentin Perret <qperret@google.com> wrote:
>
> On Tuesday 25 Feb 2025 at 18:02:02 (+0000), Marc Zyngier wrote:
> > On Tue, 25 Feb 2025 01:53:25 +0000,
> > Quentin Perret <qperret@google.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > We currently WARN() if the host attempts to share a page that is not in
> > > an acceptable state with a guest. This isn't strictly necessary and
> > > makes testing much harder, so drop the WARN and fix the error code.
> >
> > Are you really fixing the error code? You still seem to return a
> > -EPERM. I guess this was never reachable thanks to WARN() being a
> > panic with pKVM?
>
> Exactly, this is really poor wording in the commit message. 'Fix the
> error code' in this case was intended to mean 'make sure to return the
> error code properly instead outright crashing the device'.
>
> Happy to send out a v3 with a better commit message.
Nah, that's probably something Oliver can fixup when picking up the
patch.
Thanks,
M.
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-02-26 14:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-02-25 1:53 [PATCH v2 0/4] Selftest for pKVM ownership transitions Quentin Perret
2025-02-25 1:53 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] KVM: arm64: Add .hyp.data section Quentin Perret
2025-02-25 1:53 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] KVM: arm64: Don't WARN from __pkvm_host_share_guest() Quentin Perret
2025-02-25 18:02 ` Marc Zyngier
2025-02-25 19:49 ` Quentin Perret
2025-02-26 14:21 ` Marc Zyngier [this message]
2025-02-25 1:53 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] KVM: arm64: Selftest for pKVM transitions Quentin Perret
2025-02-26 14:32 ` Marc Zyngier
2025-02-26 18:10 ` Quentin Perret
2025-02-25 1:53 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] KVM: arm64: Extend pKVM selftest for np-guests Quentin Perret
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