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| author | Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org> | 2016-09-26 18:51:47 -0700 |
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| committer | Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org> | 2016-09-27 18:57:07 +0200 |
| commit | 6fe407f2d18a4f94216263f91cb7d1f08fa5887c (patch) | |
| tree | 7dbeb6562c31a5a2ec73bae880966bdbd115c1c0 /Documentation/virtual | |
| parent | 3d9cd95f90b2987ef95182a4340a9150e06c4253 (diff) | |
KVM: arm64: Require in-kernel irqchip for PMU support
If userspace creates a PMU for the VCPU, but doesn't create an in-kernel
irqchip, then we end up in a nasty path where we try to take an
uninitialized spinlock, which can lead to all sorts of breakages.
Luckily, QEMU always creates the VGIC before the PMU, so we can
establish this as ABI and check for the VGIC in the PMU init stage.
This can be relaxed at a later time if we want to support PMU with a
userspace irqchip.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Shannon Zhao <shannon.zhao@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/virtual')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/vcpu.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/vcpu.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/vcpu.txt index c04165868faf..02f50686c418 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/vcpu.txt +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/devices/vcpu.txt @@ -30,4 +30,6 @@ Returns: -ENODEV: PMUv3 not supported attribute -EBUSY: PMUv3 already initialized -Request the initialization of the PMUv3. +Request the initialization of the PMUv3. This must be done after creating the +in-kernel irqchip. Creating a PMU with a userspace irqchip is currently not +supported. |