[PATCH v2] arm64: mm: limit linear region to 51 bits for KVM in nVHE mode

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Thu Sep 9 10:40:39 PDT 2021


On Thu, 26 Aug 2021 18:56:13 +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> KVM in nVHE mode divides up its VA space into two equal halves, and
> picks the half that does not conflict with the HYP ID map to map its
> linear region. This worked fine when the kernel's linear map itself was
> guaranteed to cover precisely as many bits of VA space, but this was
> changed by commit f4693c2716b35d08 ("arm64: mm: extend linear region for
> 52-bit VA configurations").
> 
> [...]

Applied to arm64 (for-next/core), thanks!

[1/1] arm64: mm: limit linear region to 51 bits for KVM in nVHE mode
      https://git.kernel.org/arm64/c/88053ec8cb1b

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Catalin




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