On 2017-02-02 18:17, Ralf Ramsauer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> upstream Linux commit 3277953 (mm: do not export ioremap_page_range
> symbol for external module) unexports the ioremap_page_range symbol,
> which we need for jailhouse_ioremap().
> 
> The unexport was introduced in 4.10-rc6. To be able to load Jailhouse
> with Linux 4.10-rc6+, we either need to revert this commit, or use
> another API.
> 
>   Ralf
> 
> https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/3277953de2f31dd03c6375e9a9f680ac37fc9d27
> 

Yeah, this increases pressure to rethink the handover procedure /wrt
address spaces. The simple workaround will be a kernel patch. Long-term,
it might be better to make Jailhouse relocatable (again) and do this in
the very early boot phase. Quite a bit of work, though...

Thanks,
Jan

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