ACK: [SRU][Q][PATCH 0/1] kernel crash on bootup for some arm64 machines (LP: #2129770)

Sarah Emery sarah.emery at canonical.com
Wed Nov 12 17:43:53 UTC 2025


On 12/11/2025 18:29, Edoardo Canepa wrote:
> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2129770
> 
> [ Impact ]
> 
> Questing generic kernel will fail to boot on some arm64 machines.
> 
> [ Fix ]
> 
> Cherry pick upstream commit c35dd838666d47d ("KVM: arm64: Guard PMSCR_EL1
> initialization with SPE presence check").
> 
> [ Test Plan ]
> 
> Compile and boot tested
> 
> [ Where problems could occur ]
> 
> This commit touches ARM_SPE, so tools utilizing this feature could show
> undefined behavior.
> 

Acked-by: Sarah Emery <sarah.emery at canonical.com>



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