[PATCH v3 22/23] arm64: VHE: Add support for running Linux in EL2 mode

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Mon Feb 8 07:58:04 PST 2016


On Wed, Feb 03, 2016 at 06:00:15PM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> With ARMv8.1 VHE, the architecture is able to (almost) transparently
> run the kernel at EL2, despite being written for EL1.
> 
> This patch takes care of the "almost" part, mostly preventing the kernel
> from dropping from EL2 to EL1, and setting up the HYP configuration.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>



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