On 24/01/2019 16:32, James Morse wrote:
> On systems with VHE the kernel and KVM's world-switch code run at the
> same exception level. Code that is only used on a VHE system does not
> need to be annotated as __hyp_text as it can reside anywhere in the
> kernel text.
>
> __hyp_text was also used to prevent kprobes from patching breakpoint
> instructions into this region, as this code runs at a different
> exception level. While this is no longer true with VHE, KVM still
> switches VBAR_EL1, meaning a kprobe's breakpoint executed in the
> world-switch code will cause a hyp-panic.
[...]
For what it is worth, I've now queued this patch as a fix for 5.0.
Thanks,
M.
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