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From: amit.kachhap@arm.com (Amit Daniel Kachhap)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v3 6/7] arm64: docs: document KVM support of pointer authentication
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2018 16:17:59 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1539773280-4159-7-git-send-email-amit.kachhap@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1539773280-4159-1-git-send-email-amit.kachhap@arm.com>

The documentation is updated to help in using pointer authentication
for KVM guests.

Signed-off-by: Amit Daniel Kachhap <amit.kachhap@arm.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@arm.com>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Cc: kvmarm at lists.cs.columbia.edu
---
 Documentation/arm64/pointer-authentication.txt | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/pointer-authentication.txt b/Documentation/arm64/pointer-authentication.txt
index 8a9cb57..b00d735 100644
--- a/Documentation/arm64/pointer-authentication.txt
+++ b/Documentation/arm64/pointer-authentication.txt
@@ -78,7 +78,13 @@ to TTBR1 addresses (e.g. kernel pointers).
 Virtualization
 --------------
 
-Pointer authentication is not currently supported in KVM guests. KVM
+Pointer authentication is enabled in KVM guest when virtual machine is
+created by passing a flag requesting this feature to be enabled. Without
+this flag, pointer authentication is not enabled in KVM guests and KVM
 will mask the feature bits from ID_AA64ISAR1_EL1, and attempted use of
 the feature will result in an UNDEFINED exception being injected into
 the guest.
+
+The flag to enable this feature is KVM_ARM_VCPU_PTRAUTH and should be
+used in KVM API KVM_ARM_VCPU_INIT. The pointer authentication key
+registers are hidden from userspace if this feature is not enabled.
-- 
2.7.4

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-10-17 10:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-17 10:47 [PATCH v3 0/7] Add ARMv8.3 pointer authentication for kvm guest Amit Daniel Kachhap
2018-10-17 10:47 ` [PATCH v3 1/7] arm64/kvm: preserve host HCR_EL2 value Amit Daniel Kachhap
2018-10-17 10:47 ` [PATCH v3 2/7] arm64/kvm: context-switch ptrauth registers Amit Daniel Kachhap
2018-11-02  8:37   ` Christoffer Dall
2018-11-12 22:32     ` Catalin Marinas
2018-11-13 13:44       ` Christoffer Dall
2018-11-15 14:33         ` Amit Daniel Kachhap
2018-10-17 10:47 ` [PATCH v3 3/7] arm64/kvm: add a userspace option to enable pointer authentication Amit Daniel Kachhap
2018-10-17 10:47 ` [PATCH v3 4/7] arm64/kvm: enable pointer authentication cpufeature conditionally Amit Daniel Kachhap
2018-10-17 10:47 ` [PATCH v3 5/7] arm64/kvm: control accessibility of ptrauth key registers Amit Daniel Kachhap
2018-10-17 10:47 ` Amit Daniel Kachhap [this message]
2018-11-02  8:39   ` [PATCH v3 6/7] arm64: docs: document KVM support of pointer authentication Christoffer Dall
2018-10-17 10:48 ` [PATCH v3 7/7] arm/kvm: arm64: Add a vcpu feature for " Amit Daniel Kachhap

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