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From: pbonzini@redhat.com (Paolo Bonzini)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] arm64: KVM: Turn kvm_ksym_ref into a NOP on VHE
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2016 13:36:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56EFEABA.3010604@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKv+Gu_at5LXa5jxpM7h=ntxdJNNqmbtVE-bWn3SicMMMuT6Dg@mail.gmail.com>



On 21/03/2016 09:47, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On 18 March 2016 at 18:25, Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> wrote:
>> When running with VHE, there is no need to translate kernel pointers
>> to the EL2 memory space, since we're already there (and we have a much
>> saner memory map to start with).
>>
>> Unfortunately, kvm_ksym_ref is getting in the way, and the first
>> call into the "hypervisor" section is going to end up in fireworks,
>> since we're now branching into nowhereland. Meh.
>>
>> A potential solution is to test if VHE is engaged or not, and only
>> perform the translation in the negative case. With this in place,
>> VHE is able to run again.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
> 
> I think you need the & when initializing val, otherwise, it will
> silently refer to the value rather than the address of a void* symbol
> if we ever end up using this macro on one.
> 
> That was the whoie point of the opaque struct type in the original
> patch that introduced this macro, to disallow references lacking the
> &, but unfortunately, that was incompatible with the other VHE
> changes.
> 
> With that fixed
> 
> Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>

Marc, if you send a v2 I can merge it directly without a pull request.

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-21 12:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-18 17:25 [PATCH] arm64: KVM: Turn kvm_ksym_ref into a NOP on VHE Marc Zyngier
2016-03-18 17:41 ` Robin Murphy
2016-03-18 18:07 ` Catalin Marinas
2016-03-20 21:07   ` Christoffer Dall
2016-03-21 11:34     ` Catalin Marinas
2016-03-21  8:47 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2016-03-21 12:36   ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2016-03-21 12:42     ` Christoffer Dall
2016-03-21 14:02       ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-03-21 18:55         ` Christoffer Dall
2016-03-21 20:55           ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-03-22  7:33             ` Christoffer Dall

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