On Wed, 15 Apr 2020 14:15:51 +0100
Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poul...@arm.com> wrote:
> On 04/15/2020 11:14 AM, Will Deacon wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 11:13:54AM +0100, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
> >> On 04/14/2020 10:31 PM, Will Deacon wrote:
> >>> Although we emit a "SANITY CHECK" warning and taint the kernel if we
> >>> detect a CPU mismatch for AArch32 support at EL1, we still online the
> >>> CPU with disastrous consequences for any running 32-bit VMs.
> >>>
> >>> Introduce a capability for AArch32 support at EL1 so that late onlining
> >>> of incompatible CPUs is forbidden.
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <w...@kernel.org>
> >>
> >> One of the other important missing sanity check for KVM is the VMID width
> >> check. I will code something up.
> >
> > Cheers! Do we handle things like the IPA size already?
>
> Good point. No, we don't. I will include this too.
There is also the question of the ARMv8.5-GTG extension. I have a patch
that treats it as non-strict, but that approach would fail with KVM if
we online a late CPU without support for the right page size at S2.
M.
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