Re: [PATCH v21 05/23] KVM: arm64: Track the type of VM in kvm_arch

From: Fuad Tabba

Date: Fri Oct 02 2026 - 10:38:13 EST


Hi Marc,

On Fri, 02 Oct 2026 15:15:06 +0100, Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[...]
> Honestly, we introduce the flavor stuff to make it easy to match
> things on a particular VM type in a readable way. So why isn't this
> reading:
>
> if (vcpu->kvm->arch.vm_flavor != VM_PROTECTED_PKVM)
> return;

I know this is a sketch, but just in case: that's inverted. The sync
only applies to non-protected pKVM VMs (EL2 ignores it for protected
ones), so it would be != VM_PKVM.

Otherwise, looks good to me.

Cheers,
/fuad