linux-kernel - Re: [RFC 2/4] arm64: kexec: fix kvm issue

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Date:	Mon, 23 Mar 2015 08:56:53 -0700
From:	Geoff Levand <geoff@...radead.org>
To:	AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@...aro.org>
Cc:	catalin.marinas@....com, will.deacon@....com, marc.zyngier@....com,
	mark.rutland@....com, christoffer.dall@...aro.org,
	broonie@...nel.org, david.griego@...aro.org, freddy77@...il.com,
	kexec@...ts.infradead.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 2/4] arm64: kexec: fix kvm issue

On Mon, 2015-03-23 at 20:53 +0900, AKASHI Takahiro wrote:
> The current kvm implementation keeps EL2 vector table installed even
> when the system is shut down. This prevents kexec from putting the system
> with kvm back into EL2 when starting a new kernel.

This is a kvm bug fix, so I think the subject should
be something like 'arm64/kvm: Fix shutdown issue'.

-Geoff


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