[PATCH 1/4] KVM: arm64: Compile stacktrace.nvhe.o

Kalesh Singh kaleshsingh at google.com
Fri Apr 29 09:25:46 PDT 2022


On Fri, Apr 29, 2022 at 5:47 AM Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 11:46:56AM -0700, Kalesh Singh wrote:
>
> > Recompile stack unwinding code for use with the nVHE hypervisor. This is
> > a preparatory patch that will allow reusing most of the kernel unwinding
> > logic in the nVHE hypervisor.
>
> This is substantially more than just the build change that the changelog
> would seem to indicate...  it would I think be clearer to split this up
> further with the code changes separated out and explained a bit more.
> It's not just recompling the code for nVHE, there's also refactoring to
> split out changes that don't apply in nVHE hypervisor like all the task
> related code which is needed but not mentioned in the changlog at all.
> Possibly a patch or two for the code motion then a separate patch for
> the ifdefs and build changes?

Hi Mark,

Thank you for reviewing. I agree - will split this into more
incremental patches in the next version.

Thanks,
Kalesh

>
> I *think* the code is all fine but I'd need to go through it a few more
> times to be sure I didn't miss anything.



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