Hi Mark, On Tue, 2015-01-27 at 16:46 +0000, Mark Rutland wrote: > On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 09:48:48PM +0000, Geoff Levand wrote: > > This conditional is just if KVM, do things the old way (don't try to > > switch exception levels). It is to handle the system shutdown case. > > Having grepped treewide for soft_restart, other than kexec there are no > users for arm64. So surely kexec is the only case to cater for at the > moment? Yes, I think you're right, and so it seems we can drop this patch and just have the 'Add checks for KVM' patch. > > Another patch in this series '[PATCH 7/8] arm64/kexec: Add checks for > > KVM' assures kexec cannot happen when KVM is configured. > > It would be better to just move this earlier (or event better, implement > kvm teardown). Yes, I hope we don't really need to have any KVM work-arounds. -Geoff
