Regarding the Issue of vNMI Not Supporting Live Migration

Marc Zyngier maz at kernel.org
Fri Aug 1 05:07:17 PDT 2025


On Fri, 01 Aug 2025 09:00:07 +0100,
Jinqian Yang <yangjinqian1 at huawei.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,marc
> 
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/maz/arm-platforms.git/log/?h=arm64/nmi
> 
> During the testing of this set of vNMI patches, it was discovered that
> vNMI do not support live
> migration. The reason is that GICD_INMIR/GICR_INMIR0 have not been
> migrated, causing
> irq->nmi to reset to 0 after migration. Therefore, to resolve this
> issue, we need to complete the
> migration of GICD_INMIR/GICR_INMIR0. This set of patches does not seem
> to have been uploaded
> to the mainline. I was wondering if these are scheduled for upload to
> the mainline?

There patches are *dead*, and will *not* be upstreamed as such. You
can tell from the date and the base commit that they are old and
unmaintained.

Please do not pick random branches from my tree.

Thanks,

	M.

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