linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 00/13] perf: KVM: Fix, optimize, and clean up callbacks

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Message-ID: <7a5825d1-d6e9-8ac8-5df2-cce693525da7@redhat.com>
Date:   Mon, 20 Sep 2021 15:18:30 +0200
From:   Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:     Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>
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        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, kvmarm@...ts.cs.columbia.edu,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/13] perf: KVM: Fix, optimize, and clean up callbacks

On 20/09/21 14:22, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>> I think that's only ARM, and even then it is only because of
>> limitations of the hardware which mostly apply only if VHE is not in
>> use.
>>
>> If anything, it's ARM that should support module build in VHE mode
>> (Linux would still need to know whether it will be running at EL1 or
>> EL2, but KVM's functionality is as self-contained as on x86 in the VHE
>> case).
> I don't see this happening anytime soon. At least not before we
> declare the arm64 single kernel image policy to be obsolete.

--verbose please. :)  I am sure you're right, but I don't understand the 
link between the two.

Paolo