[RFC 2/4] arm64: kexec: fix kvm issue

Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier at arm.com
Tue Mar 24 01:46:31 PDT 2015


On 23/03/15 15:56, Geoff Levand wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-03-23 at 20:53 +0900, AKASHI Takahiro wrote:
>> The current kvm implementation keeps EL2 vector table installed even
>> when the system is shut down. This prevents kexec from putting the system
>> with kvm back into EL2 when starting a new kernel.
> 
> This is a kvm bug fix, so I think the subject should
> be something like 'arm64/kvm: Fix shutdown issue'.

Not quite. On its own, this doesn't fix anything in KVM. It simply plugs
a deficiency in the arm64 kexec implementation. If you want to be
completely true to the content of the patch, it should read:

"arm64: KVM: Allow EL2 context to be reset on shutdown"

Can we now drop the blame game and get back to the actual code?

Thanks,

	M.
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