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From: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
To: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>, Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	"Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>,
	Peter Maydell <Peter.Maydell@arm.com>,
	Haibo Xu <Haibo.Xu@arm.com>,
	Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>,
	James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>,
	Julien Thierry <julien.thierry.kdev@gmail.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] MTE support for KVM guest
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2020 08:36:44 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c6043c5c-4bf1-e42c-1337-a892e6fd7402@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <842807ac-562a-36ce-8061-aa323341b605@arm.com>

On 9/10/20 3:24 AM, Steven Price wrote:
> It is a shame, however I suspect this is because to use those instructions you
> need to know the block size held in GMID_EL1. And at least in theory that could
> vary between CPUs.

Which is no different from having to read DCZID_EL0 in order to implement
memset, in my opinion.  But, whatever.


> When we have some real hardware it would be worth profiling this. At the moment
> I've no idea whether the kernel entry overhead would make such an interface
> useful from a performance perspective or not.

Yep.


r~


      reply	other threads:[~2020-09-10 15:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-04 16:00 [PATCH v2 0/2] MTE support for KVM guest Steven Price
2020-09-04 16:00 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] arm64: kvm: Save/restore MTE registers Steven Price
2020-09-04 16:00 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] arm64: kvm: Introduce MTE VCPU feature Steven Price
2020-09-09 15:48   ` Andrew Jones
2020-09-09 15:53     ` Peter Maydell
2020-09-10  6:38       ` Andrew Jones
2020-09-10 10:01         ` Andrew Jones
2020-09-10  9:21     ` Steven Price
2020-09-10 11:49       ` Andrew Jones
2020-09-07 15:28 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] MTE support for KVM guest Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2020-09-09  9:15   ` Steven Price
2020-09-09 15:25 ` Andrew Jones
2020-09-09 16:04   ` Steven Price
2020-09-10  6:29     ` Andrew Jones
2020-09-10  9:21       ` Steven Price
2020-09-10 13:56         ` Andrew Jones
2020-09-10 14:14           ` Steven Price
2020-09-10  1:45   ` Richard Henderson
2020-09-10  5:44     ` Andrew Jones
2020-09-10 13:27       ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2020-09-10 13:39         ` Andrew Jones
2020-09-10  0:33 ` Richard Henderson
2020-09-10 10:24   ` Steven Price
2020-09-10 15:36     ` Richard Henderson [this message]

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