From: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
To: Haibo Xu <haibo.xu@linaro.org>
Cc: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>,
Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>,
Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>,
QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
"Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>,
arm-mail-list <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
kvmarm <kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>, Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>,
lkml - Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/2] MTE support for KVM guest
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2020 10:01:38 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b77efceaec433dd98fdf2cd535a9cf40@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJc+Z1FRJR5LHw-xZvPpeYF6+v+ZOcLt99X41xOMAbFmB2DJ2A@mail.gmail.com>
On 2020-12-08 09:51, Haibo Xu wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Dec 2020 at 22:48, Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com> wrote:
>>
[...]
>> Sounds like you are making good progress - thanks for the update. Have
>> you thought about how the PROT_MTE mappings might work if QEMU itself
>> were to use MTE? My worry is that we end up with MTE in a guest
>> preventing QEMU from using MTE itself (because of the PROT_MTE
>> mappings). I'm hoping QEMU can wrap its use of guest memory in a
>> sequence which disables tag checking (something similar will be needed
>> for the "protected VM" use case anyway), but this isn't something I've
>> looked into.
>
> As far as I can see, to map all the guest memory with PROT_MTE in VMM
> is a little weird, and lots of APIs have to be changed to include this
> flag.
> IMHO, it would be better if the KVM can provide new APIs to load/store
> the
> guest memory tag which may make it easier to enable the Qemu migration
> support.
On what granularity? To what storage? How do you plan to synchronise
this
with the dirty-log interface?
Thanks,
M.
--
Jazz is not dead. It just smells funny...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-08 10:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-19 15:38 [PATCH v5 0/2] MTE support for KVM guest Steven Price
2020-11-19 15:39 ` [PATCH v5 1/2] arm64: kvm: Save/restore MTE registers Steven Price
2020-11-19 15:39 ` [PATCH v5 2/2] arm64: kvm: Introduce MTE VCPU feature Steven Price
2020-11-19 15:45 ` [PATCH v5 0/2] MTE support for KVM guest Peter Maydell
2020-11-19 15:57 ` Steven Price
2020-11-19 16:39 ` Peter Maydell
2020-11-19 18:42 ` Andrew Jones
2020-11-19 19:11 ` Marc Zyngier
2020-11-20 9:50 ` Steven Price
2020-11-20 9:56 ` Marc Zyngier
2020-11-20 9:58 ` Steven Price
2020-12-04 8:25 ` Haibo Xu
2020-12-07 14:48 ` Steven Price
2020-12-07 15:27 ` Peter Maydell
2020-12-07 15:45 ` Steven Price
2020-12-07 16:05 ` Marc Zyngier
2020-12-07 16:34 ` Catalin Marinas
2020-12-07 19:03 ` Marc Zyngier
2020-12-08 17:21 ` Catalin Marinas
2020-12-08 18:21 ` Marc Zyngier
2020-12-09 12:44 ` Catalin Marinas
2020-12-09 13:25 ` Marc Zyngier
2020-12-09 15:27 ` Catalin Marinas
2020-12-09 18:27 ` Richard Henderson
2020-12-09 18:39 ` Catalin Marinas
2020-12-09 20:13 ` Richard Henderson
2020-12-09 20:20 ` Peter Maydell
2020-12-07 16:44 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2020-12-07 17:10 ` Peter Maydell
2020-12-07 17:44 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2020-12-08 10:05 ` Haibo Xu
2020-12-08 9:51 ` Haibo Xu
2020-12-08 10:01 ` Marc Zyngier [this message]
2020-12-08 10:10 ` Haibo Xu
2020-12-16 7:31 ` Haibo Xu
2020-12-16 10:22 ` Steven Price
2020-12-17 1:47 ` Haibo Xu
2020-11-23 12:16 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
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