[PULL 4/8] arm/arm64: kvm: Disable branch profiling in HYP code

Christoffer Dall christoffer.dall at linaro.org
Sun Oct 29 19:55:59 PDT 2017


From: Julien Thierry <julien.thierry at arm.com>

When HYP code runs into branch profiling code, it attempts to jump to
unmapped memory, causing a HYP Panic.

Disable the branch profiling for code designed to run at HYP mode.

Signed-off-by: Julien Thierry <julien.thierry at arm.com>
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>
Cc: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall at linaro.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux at armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall at linaro.org>
---
 arch/arm/kvm/hyp/Makefile   | 2 +-
 arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/Makefile | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/kvm/hyp/Makefile b/arch/arm/kvm/hyp/Makefile
index 8679405b0b2b..92eab1d51785 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kvm/hyp/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm/kvm/hyp/Makefile
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # Makefile for Kernel-based Virtual Machine module, HYP part
 #
 
-ccflags-y += -fno-stack-protector
+ccflags-y += -fno-stack-protector -DDISABLE_BRANCH_PROFILING
 
 KVM=../../../../virt/kvm
 
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/Makefile b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/Makefile
index 14c4e3b14bcb..48b03547a969 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/Makefile
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # Makefile for Kernel-based Virtual Machine module, HYP part
 #
 
-ccflags-y += -fno-stack-protector
+ccflags-y += -fno-stack-protector -DDISABLE_BRANCH_PROFILING
 
 KVM=../../../../virt/kvm
 
-- 
2.14.2




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