[PATCH v2][for-stable-v5.11] arm64: Unconditionally set virtual cpu id registers

Sasha Levin sashal at kernel.org
Thu Mar 18 12:57:00 GMT 2021


On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 01:26:15PM +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
>On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 01:43:19PM +0000, Vladimir Murzin wrote:
>> Commit 78869f0f0552 ("arm64: Extract parts of el2_setup into a macro")
>> reorganized el2 setup in such way that virtual cpu id registers set
>> only in nVHE, yet they used (and need) to be set irrespective VHE
>> support.
>>
>> Fixes: 78869f0f0552 ("arm64: Extract parts of el2_setup into a macro")
>> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin at arm.com>
>> ---
>> Changelog
>>
>>   v1 -> v2
>>      - Drop the reference to 32bit guests from commit message (per Marc)
>>
>> There is no upstream fix since issue went away due to code there has
>> been reworked in 5.12: nVHE comes first, so virtual cpu id register
>> are always set.
>>
>> Maintainers, please, Ack.
>>
>>  arch/arm64/include/asm/el2_setup.h | 4 ++--
>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
>Acked-by: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
>
>It's a bit weird to have a patch in stable that isn't upstream, but I don't
>see a better option here.

Yes, I'd agree here - the commits that would need to be backported look
way too invasive.

I've queued it up, thanks.

-- 
Thanks,
Sasha



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