From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-alma10-1.taild15c8.ts.net [100.103.45.18]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A69781B87C0; Mon, 7 Sep 2026 10:10:52 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1788775853; cv=none; b=YJFXd++yT1UiE8q4X+mpfdc8S35ZVlMOjpTV9J3v5xnpnU5O6LJud1uw6YJwjmEyi8NFIGBElcPsDWNm8FYF2i3mCkW7hajhymIIL5P0ZnO0vD3u1Kji+9tSOwTuBRvZ0Zrp3yV4Av+H6+T1SdX7ZxhqmxL1bNIOl0TCrk2oZro= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1788775853; c=relaxed/simple; bh=4cJncTH2ZkxKYxVrzjO4BbVf6QxF/bJwDw7PcdZlie4=; h=Date:Message-ID:From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=qCB9phvbFBinm9i2EvgIaW4+Rn8TLmZgfDFJQ5dCjHZvlsmLk400HeGsVogGjFc2H2HIMBHHjS7y3ly/xR/zvALH4LwzKwGSC24hPrJOQAtVEKK6Bc4H3MSoRiY8ymgZaeFmeNIP1pEKI3qWYtXiZBvwU5u9J94ajZg/XxhngnQ= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=nV2+X68E; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="nV2+X68E" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 88B581F00A3A; Mon, 7 Sep 2026 10:10:52 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=kernel.org; s=k20260515; t=1788775852; bh=Q7sejMU0l9gfX0j72uKaQiah2rzxVb9QaSNefrHXSfE=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References; b=nV2+X68E39cQ9E4OknOTWhNQTE1ZzYAPtm/Pg7/HQ/r4ivpB6KuxoVLOKcC1y9Z+S lFRqADegtw6QnImfC/yzTH7+s4q/5Kdmehhyrqvwv5Lsj5R+tpy8I8sJTIf2SPxmE2 67Pu4Wloo8ZD/mx2GaKsfXkbEN4vBmI8cF9oq7XA3okkcFOJbPcaTsfMFU0iwQNbCb ys9bBlOktzqpyMDbcHPTGHh4GrgRFZT8uUudYKHr0jZK6e3JoAwniwTUzGo7DdF0o7 NvJ61iwHuFuT0Ml/aRpCbuymDg3/rwH3qb59dVZJJrNHU8TZZxsWMnkpQnu8M5HF54 YgRQpAw3mK3Hg== Received: from sofa.misterjones.org ([185.219.108.64] helo=goblin-girl.misterjones.org) by disco-boy.misterjones.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.3) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.98.2) (envelope-from ) id 1x3WJO-00000005hHQ-1NLm; Mon, 07 Sep 2026 10:10:50 +0000 Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2026 11:10:49 +0100 Message-ID: <86fqzl4biu.wl-maz@kernel.org> From: Marc Zyngier To: Kohei Enju Cc: Steven Price , kvm@vger.kernel.org, kvmarm@lists.linux.dev, Catalin Marinas , Will Deacon , James Morse , Oliver Upton , Suzuki K Poulose , Zenghui Yu , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Joey Gouly , Alexandru Elisei , Christoffer Dall , Fuad Tabba , linux-coco@lists.linux.dev, Ganapatrao Kulkarni , Gavin Shan , Shanker Donthineni , Alper Gun , "Aneesh Kumar K . V" , Emi Kisanuki , Vishal Annapurve , WeiLin.Chang@arm.com, Lorenzo Pieralisi Subject: Re: [PATCH v16 22/45] KVM: arm64: CCA: Handle RMI_EXIT_RIPAS_CHANGE In-Reply-To: References: <20260803134403.80630-1-steven.price@arm.com> <20260803134403.80630-23-steven.price@arm.com> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.15.9 (Almost Unreal) SEMI-EPG/1.14.7 (Harue) FLIM-LB/1.14.9 (=?UTF-8?B?R29qxY0=?=) APEL-LB/10.8 EasyPG/1.0.0 Emacs/30.1 (aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu) MULE/6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: kvmarm@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI-EPG 1.14.7 - "Harue") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 185.219.108.64 X-SA-Exim-Rcpt-To: enju.kohei@fujitsu.com, steven.price@arm.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org, kvmarm@lists.linux.dev, catalin.marinas@arm.com, will@kernel.org, james.morse@arm.com, oliver.upton@linux.dev, suzuki.poulose@arm.com, yuzenghui@huawei.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, joey.gouly@arm.com, alexandru.elisei@arm.com, christoffer.dall@arm.com, tabba@google.com, linux-coco@lists.linux.dev, gankulkarni@os.amperecomputing.com, gshan@redhat.com, sdonthineni@nvidia.com, alpergun@google.com, aneesh.kumar@kernel.org, fj0570is@fujitsu.com, vannapurve@google.com, WeiLin.Chang@arm.com, lpieralisi@kernel.org X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: maz@kernel.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on disco-boy.misterjones.org); SAEximRunCond expanded to false On Mon, 07 Sep 2026 06:05:29 +0100, Kohei Enju wrote: [...] > Although the root cause is an RMM bug, should we also guard RIPAS_SET > against this no-progress case? No. We really should *prevent* the kernel from using a known broken RMM. Which brings me to one of my long standing request: how to we enforce the minimum version of RMM that KVM is willing to work with? We absolutely need to have a hard deprecation mechanism in place before day-1. M. -- Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.