From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>, Oliver Upton <oupton@kernel.org>
Cc: Aishwarya.TCV@arm.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: -next boot failures during KVM setup
Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2026 20:19:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aicVyebkEMs6w6UV@sirena.co.uk> (raw)
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I'm seeing boot failures on a range of physical arm64 platforms in
today's -next. Turning on earlycon it looks like we're getting bad
pointer dereferences during KVM initialisation:
[ 0.728923] kvm [1]: nv: 570 coarse grained trap handlers
[ 0.735138] kvm [1]: nv: 710 fine grained trap handlers
[ 0.741326] kvm [1]: IPA Size Limit: 40 bits
[ 0.748840] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffff00000478e000
[ 0.757027] Mem abort info:
[ 0.759917] ESR = 0x0000000096000147
[ 0.763772] EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
[ 0.851526] pc : dcache_clean_inval_poc+0x24/0x48
[ 0.856367] lr : kvm_arm_init+0xbb0/0x13f0
...
[ 0.937120] Call trace:
[ 0.939628] dcache_clean_inval_poc+0x24/0x48 (P)
[ 0.944457] do_one_initcall+0x60/0x1d4
[ 0.948393] kernel_init_freeable+0x250/0x2d8
https://lava.sirena.org.uk/scheduler/job/2849583#L848
(with other platforms I've got earlycon logs showing basically the same
thing). I have some bisects but they seem to have been confused by
earlier driver core issues, I've tweaked to try to avoid that and am
retrying. FVP and qemu seem unaffected:
https://lava.sirena.org.uk/scheduler/job/2848374#L888
https://lava.sirena.org.uk/scheduler/job/2848966#L447
The affected platforms thus far are all SMP Cortex A53/5 systems, but
that's the vast majority of my lab. They have both GICv3 and GICv2.
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-06-08 19:19 Mark Brown [this message]
2026-06-08 20:18 ` -next boot failures during KVM setup Marc Zyngier
2026-06-08 20:56 ` Ard Biesheuvel
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