[PATCH 0/3] KVM: arm64: Work around Ampere1 erratum AC03_CPU_38

[Catalin Marinas]

On Fri, Jun 09, 2023 at 10:01:01PM +0000, Oliver Upton wrote:
> Small series to work around a CPU erratum on AmpereOne. While the
> implementation does not advertise support for FEAT_HAFDBS (due to
> another erratum), the associated control bits do not have RES0 behavior
> as required by the architecture.
> 
> Usage of HAFDBS at stage-1 is unaffected, since HA and HD are only
> enabled on implementations that advertise the feature. However, KVM
> relies on HA having RES0 semantics if the feature isn't implemented. The
> end result is that KVM enables a broken hardware access flag
> implementation that could lead to correctness issues.

Just curious, what's the correctness issue here? The access flag is
mostly indicative of which pages are old for swapping out/discarding.
It's not like the dirty state which would be dangerous if we get wrong.

-- 
Catalin