[PATCH v21 05/23] KVM: arm64: Track the type of VM in kvm_arch

Fuad Tabba tabba at google.com
Fri Oct 2 07:37:00 PDT 2026


Hi Marc,

On Fri, 02 Oct 2026 15:15:06 +0100, Marc Zyngier <maz at kernel.org> wrote:
[...]
> Honestly, we introduce the flavor stuff to make it easy to match
> things on a particular VM type in a readable way. So why isn't this
> reading:
>
>         if (vcpu->kvm->arch.vm_flavor != VM_PROTECTED_PKVM)
>                 return;

I know this is a sketch, but just in case: that's inverted. The sync
only applies to non-protected pKVM VMs (EL2 ignores it for protected
ones), so it would be != VM_PKVM.

Otherwise, looks good to me.

Cheers,
/fuad



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