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

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Mon Jun 21 01:48:07 PDT 2021


On Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 09:18:31AM +0100, Steven Price wrote:
> 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.

It looks fine. Feel free to keep my reviewed-by.

-- 
Catalin



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