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From: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
To: Itaru Kitayama <itaru.kitayama@riken.jp>
Cc: kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH] updated: arm64: KVM: vgic: deal with GIC sub-page alignment
Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2016 11:08:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160709110849.4d398647@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d91a1d8b-8a83-e676-0d5c-decad046662f@riken.jp>

On Sat, 9 Jul 2016 09:27:21 +0900
Itaru Kitayama <itaru.kitayama@riken.jp> wrote:

Itaru,

> I'm at the latest commit, fa9301d in the gicv-align branch at the 
> moment, with that an unmodified QEMU guest boots fine on a 64Kb page 
> granular host, thanks to the trapping you introduced.

Please realize that this is a work in progress, and that I'm not even
sure I want to upstream this.

> (I wanted to get some performance statistics of the new feature with 
> perf, but on arm64 most of them are unsupported)

Care to mention which ones are missing?

> However, if I rebuild the kernel using defconfig with only the kernel 
> page size changed to 16Kb it does not boot at least on Overdrive 3000.

Only a few CPUs support 16kB pages, and Cortex-A57 is definitely not
one of them.

Thanks,

	M.
-- 
Jazz is not dead. It just smells funny.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-07-09 10:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-01  4:57 [PATCH] updated: arm64: KVM: vgic: deal with GIC sub-page alignment Itaru Kitayama
2016-07-01  8:40 ` Marc Zyngier
2016-07-01  8:59   ` Itaru Kitayama
2016-07-01  9:20     ` Marc Zyngier
2016-07-09  0:27       ` Itaru Kitayama
2016-07-09  0:34         ` Itaru Kitayama
2016-07-09 10:08         ` Marc Zyngier [this message]
2016-07-09 10:32           ` Itaru Kitayama
2016-07-09 20:09             ` Marc Zyngier
2016-07-10  6:49               ` Itaru Kitayama

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