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From: Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@linux.dev>
To: Kristina Martsenko <kristina.martsenko@arm.com>
Cc: kvmarm@lists.linux.dev, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>, James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>,
	Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>,
	Zenghui Yu <yuzenghui@huawei.com>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin@arm.com>,
	Colton Lewis <coltonlewis@google.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] KVM: arm64: Support for Arm v8.8 memcpy instructions in KVM guests
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2023 22:19:36 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZRX7-EJ9w-Nmyxjz@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6687f58c-0da9-0583-2dc1-2089f292b745@arm.com>

On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 05:55:39PM +0100, Kristina Martsenko wrote:

[...]

> > Perhaps I'm being pedantic, but I'd really like for there to be some
> > documentation that suggests MOPS exceptions can happen due to context
> > migration done by a higher EL as that is the only option in the context
> > of virtualization.
> 
> That's a good point. This shouldn't affect Linux guests as Linux is
> always able to handle a MOPS exception coming from EL0. But it would
> affect any non-Linux guest that pins all its EL0 tasks and doesn't
> implement a handler. It's not clear to me what the expectation for
> guests is, I'll ask the architects to clarify and get back to you.

That'd be excellent, thanks! All I'm looking for is something to point
folks at if/when they complain about MOPS behavior in KVM guests.

-- 
Thanks,
Oliver

  reply	other threads:[~2023-09-28 22:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-09-22 11:25 [PATCH v2 0/2] KVM: arm64: Support for Arm v8.8 memcpy instructions in KVM guests Kristina Martsenko
2023-09-22 11:25 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] KVM: arm64: Add handler for MOPS exceptions Kristina Martsenko
2023-09-24 14:48   ` Marc Zyngier
2023-09-25 15:16     ` Kristina Martsenko
2023-09-27  8:28       ` Oliver Upton
2023-09-29  9:23         ` Marc Zyngier
2023-10-02 14:06           ` Kristina Martsenko
2023-10-02 14:55             ` Marc Zyngier
2023-10-03 14:29               ` Catalin Marinas
2023-10-04 13:58                 ` Marc Zyngier
2023-09-22 11:25 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] KVM: arm64: Expose MOPS instructions to guests Kristina Martsenko
2023-09-27  6:00 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] KVM: arm64: Support for Arm v8.8 memcpy instructions in KVM guests Oliver Upton
2023-09-28 16:55   ` Kristina Martsenko
2023-09-28 22:19     ` Oliver Upton [this message]
2023-09-29  9:29     ` Marc Zyngier
2023-09-29 14:51       ` Kristina Martsenko
2023-10-02 14:58         ` Marc Zyngier
2023-10-04 13:59 ` Marc Zyngier
2023-10-04 18:27 ` Oliver Upton

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