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If a CPU doesn't support the page size for which the kernel is configured, then we will complain and refuse to bring it online. For secondary CPUs (and the boot CPU on a system booting with EFI), we will also print an error identifying the mismatch. Consequently, the only time that the cpufeature code can detect a granule size mismatch is for a granule other than the one that is currently being used. Although we would rather such systems didn't exist, we've unfortunately lost that battle and Kevin reports that on his amlogic S922X (odroid-n2 board) we end up warning and taining with defconfig because 16k pages are not supported by all of the CPUs. In such a situation, we don't actually care about the feature mismatch, particularly now that KVM only exposes the sanitised view of the CPU registers (commit 93390c0a1b20 - "arm64: KVM: Hide unsupported AArch64 CPU features from guests"). Treat the granule fields as non-strict and let Kevin run without a tainted kernel. Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> Reported-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@baylibre.com> Tested-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@baylibre.com> Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Acked-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> [catalin.marinas@arm.com: changelog updated with KVM sanitised regs commit] Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.