[PATCH v2] arm64: KVM: VHE: Context switch MDSCR_EL1
Radim Krčmář
rkrcmar at redhat.com
Thu Jul 21 06:17:20 PDT 2016
2016-07-19 13:56+0100, Marc Zyngier:
> The kprobe enablement work has uncovered that changes made by
> a guest to MDSCR_EL1 were propagated to the host when VHE was
> enabled, leading to unexpected exception being delivered.
>
> Moving this register to the list of registers that are always
> context-switched fixes the issue.
>
> Fixes: 9c6c35683286 ("arm64: KVM: VHE: Split save/restore of registers shared between guest and host")
> Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org #4.6
> Reported-by: Tirumalesh Chalamarla <Tirumalesh.Chalamarla at cavium.com>
> Tested-by: Tirumalesh Chalamarla <Tirumalesh.Chalamarla at cavium.com>
> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>
> ---
I would take this patch to 4.7 directly through the main tree.
Are your plans different?
Thanks.
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