[PATCH v16 7/7] KVM: arm64: Document MTE capability and ioctl

Steven Price steven.price at arm.com
Mon Jun 21 01:18:31 PDT 2021


On 18/06/2021 15:52, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 02:28:26PM +0100, Steven Price wrote:
>> +When this capability is enabled all memory in (non-device) memslots must not
>> +used VM_SHARED, attempts to create a memslot with a VM_SHARED mmap will result
>> +in an -EINVAL return.
> 
> "must not used" doesn't sound right. Anyway, I'd remove VM_SHARED as
> that's a kernel internal and not something the VMM needs to be aware of.
> Just say something like "memslots must be mapped as shareable
> (MAP_SHARED)".

I think I meant "must not use" - and indeed memslots must *not* be
mapped as shareable. I'll update to this wording:

  When this capability is enabled all memory in memslots must be mapped as
  not-shareable (no MAP_SHARED), attempts to create a memslot with MAP_SHARED
  will result in an -EINVAL return.

> Otherwise:
> 
> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
> 

Thanks,

Steve



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