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From: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: KVM: Warn when PARange is less than 40 bits
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2016 13:32:13 +0200
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On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 04:11:47PM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> We always thought that 40bits of PA range would be the minimum people
> would actually build. Anything less is terrifyingly small.
> 
> Turns out that we were both right and wrong. Nobody has ever built
> such a system, but the ARM Foundation Model has a PARange set to 36bits.
> Just because we can. Oh well. Now, the KVM API explicitely says that
> we offer a 40bit PA space to the VM, so we shouldn't run KVM on
> the Foundation Model at all.
> 
> That being said, this patch offers a less agressive alternative, and
> loudly warns about the configuration being unsupported. You'll still
> be able to run VMs (at your own risks, though).
> 
> This is just a workaround until we have a proper userspace API where
> we report the PARange to userspace.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>

Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>