Re: [PATCH] arm64: cpufeature: check translation granule size based on kernel config

[Leo Yan]

On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 01:39:12PM +0100, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:

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> >>If we were to suppress the warning (more on that below), we could simply
> >>make this feature a NON_STRICT, since the unsupported CPUs won't boot
> >>with 16K to hit this sanity check.
> >>
> >>However, there is a problem with disabling this warning. If a VM starts
> >>using 16KB page size on a 4K/64K host, the VM could end up in unknown
> >>failures when it switches to an unsupported CPU (after it has booted).
> >>Of course the real fix lies in making the KVM exposing the safe value
> >>for granule support to the VCPUs (which is currently being worked on by
> >>Douglas in Cc). So, when we have that ready, we could make it NON_STRICT
> >>instead of this approach.
> >
> >Thanks for the info :)
> >
> >I will use below patch for production branch temporarily. You could
> 
> Which production branch do you mean above ? Is it something in your intenral
> repository ?

Yeah, I mean Hikey960 branch.

Thanks,
Leo Yan