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Alexandru Elisei f1f0c0cfea KVM: arm64: Don't BUG_ON() if emulated register table is unsorted
To emulate a register access, KVM uses a table of registers sorted by
register encoding to speed up queries using binary search.

When Linux boots, KVM checks that the table is sorted and uses a BUG_ON()
statement to let the user know if it's not. The unfortunate side effect is
that an unsorted sysreg table brings down the whole kernel, not just KVM,
even though the rest of the kernel can function just fine without KVM. To
make matters worse, on machines which lack a serial console, the user is
left pondering why the machine is taking so long to boot.

Improve this situation by returning an error from kvm_arch_init() if the
sysreg tables are not in the correct order. The machine is still very much
usable for the user, with the exception of virtualization, who can now
easily determine what went wrong.

A minor typo has also been corrected in the check_sysreg_table() function.

Signed-off-by: Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220428103405.70884-2-alexandru.elisei@arm.com
2022-05-04 17:52:50 +01:00
arch KVM: arm64: Don't BUG_ON() if emulated register table is unsorted 2022-05-04 17:52:50 +01:00
block block: don't print I/O error warning for dead disks 2022-04-15 06:33:03 -06:00
certs Kbuild updates for v5.18 2022-03-31 11:59:03 -07:00
crypto for-5.18/64bit-pi-2022-03-25 2022-03-26 12:01:35 -07:00
Documentation Devicetree fixes for v5.18, part 2: 2022-04-16 17:07:50 -07:00
drivers xen: branch for v5.18-rc3 2022-04-17 10:29:10 -07:00
fs Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2022-04-15 15:57:18 -07:00
include gpio fixes for v5.18-rc3 2022-04-16 17:01:43 -07:00
init Kbuild updates for v5.18 2022-03-31 11:59:03 -07:00
ipc fs: allocate inode by using alloc_inode_sb() 2022-03-22 15:57:03 -07:00
kernel A small set of fixes for the timers core: 2022-04-17 09:53:01 -07:00
lib Driver core changes for 5.18-rc2 2022-04-10 09:55:09 -10:00
LICENSES LICENSES/LGPL-2.1: Add LGPL-2.1-or-later as valid identifiers 2021-12-16 14:33:10 +01:00
mm mm: kmemleak: take a full lowmem check in kmemleak_*_phys() 2022-04-15 14:49:56 -07:00
net Networking fixes for 5.18-rc3, including fixes from wireless and 2022-04-14 11:58:19 -07:00
samples dma-mapping updates for Linux 5.18 2022-03-29 08:50:14 -07:00
scripts hardening fixes for v5.18-rc3 2022-04-12 14:29:40 -10:00
security hardening updates for v5.18-rc1-fix1 2022-03-31 11:43:01 -07:00
sound sound fixes for 5.18-rc3 2022-04-14 11:08:12 -07:00
tools Two x86 fixes related to TSX: 2022-04-17 09:55:59 -07:00
usr Kbuild updates for v5.18 2022-03-31 11:59:03 -07:00
virt KVM/arm64 fixes for 5.18, take #1 2022-04-08 12:30:04 -04:00
.clang-format genirq/msi: Make interrupt allocation less convoluted 2021-12-16 22:22:20 +01:00
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COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: replace a Microchip AT91 maintainer 2022-02-09 11:30:01 +01:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS ARM: SoC fixes for 5.18, part 2 2022-04-16 16:51:39 -07:00
Makefile Linux 5.18-rc3 2022-04-17 13:57:31 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.