From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Message-ID: <1422383697.21823.19.camel@infradead.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/8] arm64: Add EL2 switch to soft_restart From: Geoff Levand Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 10:34:57 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20150127164619.GL17721@leverpostej> References: <20150126190223.GO23313@leverpostej> <1422308928.21823.16.camel@infradead.org> <20150127164619.GL17721@leverpostej> Mime-Version: 1.0 List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "kexec" Errors-To: kexec-bounces+dwmw2=infradead.org@lists.infradead.org To: Mark Rutland Cc: Marc Zyngier , Catalin Marinas , Will Deacon , "christoffer.dall@linaro.org" , "grant.likely@linaro.org" , "kexec@lists.infradead.org" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" Hi Mark, On Tue, 2015-01-27 at 16:46 +0000, Mark Rutland wrote: > On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 09:48:48PM +0000, Geoff Levand wrote: > > This conditional is just if KVM, do things the old way (don't try to > > switch exception levels). It is to handle the system shutdown case. > > Having grepped treewide for soft_restart, other than kexec there are no > users for arm64. So surely kexec is the only case to cater for at the > moment? Yes, I think you're right, and so it seems we can drop this patch and just have the 'Add checks for KVM' patch. > > Another patch in this series '[PATCH 7/8] arm64/kexec: Add checks for > > KVM' assures kexec cannot happen when KVM is configured. > > It would be better to just move this earlier (or event better, implement > kvm teardown). Yes, I hope we don't really need to have any KVM work-arounds. -Geoff _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec