Re: [PATCH kvmtool v3 8/9] arm64: Add SVE support

Dave Martin
2019-06-03T11:15:48Z

On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 06:13:31PM +0100, Andre Przywara wrote:
> On Thu, 30 May 2019 16:13:13 +0100
> Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com> wrote:
>
> > This patch adds --enable-sve/--disable-sve command line options to
> > allow the user to control whether the Scalable Vector Extension is
> > made available to the guest.
>
> I guess I have a similar concern about this enable/disable pair being
> confusing, though there is more sense here for SVE, given the impact of it
> being enabled in the guest.
>
> Maybe we can cover both pointer auth and SVE options with the same revised
> approach?

I agree that we should follow the same approach for both when we've
decided what approach to take.

(That was part of the reason for pulling both into the same series -- I
didn't want to end up randomly doing two different things without a
conscious intention to do so.)

Cheers
---Dave