Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] Removing support for 32bit KVM/arm host

2020-02-19 Thread Stefan Agner
On 2020-02-10 15:13, Marc Zyngier wrote: > KVM/arm was merged just over 7 years ago, and has lived a very quiet > life so far. It mostly works if you're prepared to deal with its > limitations, it has been a good prototype for the arm64 version, > but it suffers a few problems: > > - It is incompl

[PATCH] kvmtool: ARM: madvise mergeable and hugepage separately

2016-08-08 Thread Stefan Agner
The madvise behavior is not a bit field and hence can not be or'ed. Also madvise_behavior_valid checks the flag using a case statement hence only one behavior is supposed to be supplied. Call madvise twice, once for MERGEABLE and once for HUGEPAGE. Signed-off-by: Stefan Agner --- arm/kvm.

Re: [PATCH] KVM: arm/arm64: initialize new VGIC even without host GIC

2016-08-02 Thread Stefan Agner
l. > Also take care of the arch timer (which becomes unusable as well without > a VGIC) by using a static key to prevent arch timer code to run in the > hot path. > Much of the code was inspired by Marc Zyngier. > > Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara > Reported-by: Stefan Agner >

Re: KVM on ARM crashes with new VGIC v4.7-rc7

2016-07-25 Thread Stefan Agner
On 2016-07-25 01:11, Marc Zyngier wrote: > On 25/07/16 07:14, Stefan Agner wrote: >> On 2016-07-24 05:36, Marc Zyngier wrote: >>> On Sun, 24 Jul 2016 13:22:55 +0100 >>> Marc Zyngier wrote: >>> >>>> On Fri, 22 Jul 2016 10:56:44 -0700 >>>&g

Re: KVM on ARM crashes with new VGIC v4.7-rc7

2016-07-25 Thread Stefan Agner
On 2016-07-25 06:33, Andre Przywara wrote: > Hi Stefan, > > On 25/07/16 07:36, Stefan Agner wrote: >> On 2016-07-24 05:36, Marc Zyngier wrote: >>> On Sun, 24 Jul 2016 13:22:55 +0100 >>> Marc Zyngier wrote: >>> >>>> On Fri, 22 Jul 2016 10:56

Re: KVM on ARM crashes with new VGIC v4.7-rc7

2016-07-24 Thread Stefan Agner
On 2016-07-24 05:36, Marc Zyngier wrote: > On Sun, 24 Jul 2016 13:22:55 +0100 > Marc Zyngier wrote: > >> On Fri, 22 Jul 2016 10:56:44 -0700 >> Stefan Agner wrote: >> >> > On 2016-07-22 10:49, Marc Zyngier wrote: >> > > On 22/07/16 18:38, Andrew Jo

Re: KVM on ARM crashes with new VGIC v4.7-rc7

2016-07-24 Thread Stefan Agner
On 2016-07-24 02:30, Marc Zyngier wrote: > On Sat, 23 Jul 2016 09:33:54 -0700 > Stefan Agner wrote: > >> On 2016-07-23 03:20, Marc Zyngier wrote: >> > On Sat, 23 Jul 2016 00:45:50 -0700 >> > Stefan Agner wrote: >> > >> >> On 2016-07-2

Re: KVM on ARM crashes with new VGIC v4.7-rc7

2016-07-23 Thread Stefan Agner
On 2016-07-23 03:20, Marc Zyngier wrote: > On Sat, 23 Jul 2016 00:45:50 -0700 > Stefan Agner wrote: > >> On 2016-07-22 11:11, Marc Zyngier wrote: >> > On 22/07/16 18:56, Stefan Agner wrote: >> >> On 2016-07-22 10:49, Marc Zyngier wrote: >> >>>

Re: KVM on ARM crashes with new VGIC v4.7-rc7

2016-07-23 Thread Stefan Agner
On 2016-07-22 11:11, Marc Zyngier wrote: > On 22/07/16 18:56, Stefan Agner wrote: >> On 2016-07-22 10:49, Marc Zyngier wrote: >>> On 22/07/16 18:38, Andrew Jones wrote: >>>> On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 04:40:15PM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote: >>>>> On 22/0

Re: KVM on ARM crashes with new VGIC v4.7-rc7

2016-07-22 Thread Stefan Agner
;>>> Hi Stefan, >>>>> >>>>> On 22/07/16 06:57, Stefan Agner wrote: >>>>>> Hi, >>>>>> >>>>>> I tried KVM on a Cortex-A7 platform (i.MX 7Dual SoC) and encountered >>>>>> this stack trace

Re: KVM on ARM crashes with new VGIC v4.7-rc7

2016-07-22 Thread Stefan Agner
On 2016-07-22 10:38, Andrew Jones wrote: > On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 04:40:15PM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote: >> On 22/07/16 15:35, Andrew Jones wrote: >> > On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 11:42:02AM +0100, Andre Przywara wrote: >> >> Hi Stefan, >> >> >> >

Re: KVM on ARM crashes with new VGIC v4.7-rc7

2016-07-22 Thread Stefan Agner
Hi Marc, On 2016-07-22 00:47, Marc Zyngier wrote: > Hi Stefan, > > On 22/07/16 06:57, Stefan Agner wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I tried KVM on a Cortex-A7 platform (i.MX 7Dual SoC) and encountered >> this stack trace immediately after invoking qemu-system-arm: >> &g

KVM on ARM crashes with new VGIC v4.7-rc7

2016-07-22 Thread Stefan Agner
Hi, I tried KVM on a Cortex-A7 platform (i.MX 7Dual SoC) and encountered this stack trace immediately after invoking qemu-system-arm: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffe4 pgd = 8ca52740 [ffe4] *pgd=8080007003, *pmd=8ff7e003, *pte= Internal error: Oops