[PATCH v2] kvm: arm: Enforce some NS-SVC initialisation

Christoffer Dall christoffer.dall at linaro.org
Wed Aug 17 04:17:51 PDT 2016


Hi Russell,

On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 06:49:18PM +0100, Robin Murphy wrote:
> Since the non-secure copies of banked registers lack architecturally
> defined reset values, there is no actual guarantee when entering in Hyp
> from secure-only firmware that the Non-Secure PL1 state will look the
> way that kernel entry (in particular the decompressor stub) expects.
> So far, we've been getting away with it thanks to implementation details
> of ARMv7 cores and/or bootloader behaviour, but for the sake of forwards
> compatibility let's try to ensure that we have a minimally sane state
> before dropping down into it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy at arm.com>

Can we have your acked-by on this patch to merge it via the KVM tree or
do you prefer merging this one directly yourself?

Thanks,
-Christoffer



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