Re: [PATCH v2] KVM: arm64: Failback on unsupported huge page sizes

From: Marc Zyngier
Date: Thu Oct 29 2020 - 17:09:40 EST


On Mon, 26 Oct 2020 10:06:26 +1100, Gavin Shan wrote:
> The huge page could be mapped through multiple contiguous PMDs or PTEs.
> The corresponding huge page sizes aren't supported by the page table
> walker currently.
>
> This fails the unsupported huge page sizes to the near one. Otherwise,
> the guest can't boot successfully: CONT_PMD_SHIFT and CONT_PTE_SHIFT
> fail back to PMD_SHIFT and PAGE_SHIFT separately.

Applied to next, thanks!

[1/1] KVM: arm64: Use fallback mapping sizes for contiguous huge page sizes
commit: 2f40c46021bbb3ecd5c5f05764ecccbc276bc690

Cheers,

M.
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