From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:34590 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751406AbeBWLLi (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Feb 2018 06:11:38 -0500 Subject: Patch "kvm: arm: don't treat unavailable HYP mode as an error" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree To: ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org, alexander.levin@verizon.com, christoffer.dall@linaro.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, marc.zyngier@arm.com Cc: , From: Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2018 12:10:35 +0100 Message-ID: <151938423510152@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled kvm: arm: don't treat unavailable HYP mode as an error to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: kvm-arm-don-t-treat-unavailable-hyp-mode-as-an-error.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let know about it. >>From foo@baz Fri Feb 23 11:45:09 CET 2018 From: Ard Biesheuvel Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 15:18:19 +0000 Subject: kvm: arm: don't treat unavailable HYP mode as an error From: Ard Biesheuvel [ Upstream commit 58d0d19a204604ca0da26058828a53558b265da3 ] Since it is perfectly legal to run the kernel at EL1, it is not actually an error if HYP mode is not available when attempting to initialize KVM, given that KVM support cannot be built as a module. So demote the kvm_err() to kvm_info(), which prevents the error from appearing on an otherwise 'quiet' console. Acked-by: Marc Zyngier Acked-by: Christoffer Dall Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- virt/kvm/arm/arm.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/virt/kvm/arm/arm.c +++ b/virt/kvm/arm/arm.c @@ -1453,7 +1453,7 @@ int kvm_arch_init(void *opaque) bool in_hyp_mode; if (!is_hyp_mode_available()) { - kvm_err("HYP mode not available\n"); + kvm_info("HYP mode not available\n"); return -ENODEV; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org are queue-4.14/kvm-arm-don-t-treat-unavailable-hyp-mode-as-an-error.patch