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[PATCH] KVM: Initialize kvm_arch_ops on unload
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The latest version of kvm doesn't initialize kvm_arch_ops in kvm_init(), which
causes an error with the following sequence.

1. Load the supported arch's module.
2. Load the unsupported arch's module.�$B!!�(B(loading error)
3. Unload the unsupported arch's module.

You'll get the following error message after step 3.  "BUG: unable to handle
to handle kernel paging request at virtual address xxxxxxxx"

The problem here is that the unsupported arch's module overwrites kvm_arch_ops
of the supported arch's module at step 2.

This patch initializes kvm_arch_ops upon loading architecture specific kvm
module, and prevents overwriting kvm_arch_ops when kvm_arch_ops is already set
correctly.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Yoshimi Ichiyanagi authored and Linus Torvalds committed Dec 30, 2006
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Expand Up @@ -1865,6 +1865,11 @@ int kvm_init_arch(struct kvm_arch_ops *ops, struct module *module)
{
int r;

if (kvm_arch_ops) {
printk(KERN_ERR "kvm: already loaded the other module\n");
return -EEXIST;
}

kvm_arch_ops = ops;

if (!kvm_arch_ops->cpu_has_kvm_support()) {
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unregister_reboot_notifier(&kvm_reboot_notifier);
on_each_cpu(kvm_arch_ops->hardware_disable, 0, 0, 1);
kvm_arch_ops->hardware_unsetup();
kvm_arch_ops = NULL;
}

static __init int kvm_init(void)
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