[PATCH] arm64: KVM: fix unmapping with 48-bit VAs

Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier at arm.com
Thu Oct 30 02:23:01 PDT 2014


On 30/10/14 09:15, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 10:08 AM, Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com> wrote:
>> On 30/10/14 09:00, Christoffer Dall wrote:
>>> On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 10:39:45AM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>>>> Hi Mark,
>>>>
>>>> On 28/10/14 19:36, Mark Rutland wrote:
>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm not at all familiar with this code, so my analysis below might be off. Does
>>>>> this look right or am I just masking a more fundamental issue?
>>>>>
>>>>> I've given this a go with 4KiB pages on Juno with {39,48}-bit VAs and the
>>>>> system seems to boot fine.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for looking into this.
>>>>
>>>
>>> yeah, sorry for missing this!
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Looks good to me!
>>>>
>>>> Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>
>>>>
>>>> Christoffer, if you're OK with that one, I'll queue it up for the next -rc.
>>>>
>>> Yup (for the record we're not breaking anything because 48 bit VA still
>>> depends on broken, right?):
>>
>> Since 04f905a (arm64: Allow 48-bits VA space without ARM_SMMU), we can
>> select 48bit VA if the SMMU is not selected.
>>
> Did Catlin merge this separately or did I accidentally do that?  I
> thought we were holding off on that until we had done more testing...

Catalin felt very brave, did some testing (LTP and stuff), fixed another
nit (3dec0fe), sent a pull request to Linus and went on holiday!

So far, it looks good. :-)

	M.
-- 
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