Re: [PATCH v5 0/2] MTE support for KVM guest

[Dr. David Alan Gilbert]

* Peter Maydell (peter.maydell@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Nov 2020 at 15:39, Steven Price <steven.price@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > This series adds support for Arm's Memory Tagging Extension (MTE) to
> > KVM, allowing KVM guests to make use of it. This builds on the existing
> > user space support already in v5.10-rc1, see [1] for an overview.
> 
> > The change to require the VMM to map all guest memory PROT_MTE is
> > significant as it means that the VMM has to deal with the MTE tags even
> > if it doesn't care about them (e.g. for virtual devices or if the VMM
> > doesn't support migration). Also unfortunately because the VMM can
> > change the memory layout at any time the check for PROT_MTE/VM_MTE has
> > to be done very late (at the point of faulting pages into stage 2).
> 
> I'm a bit dubious about requring the VMM to map the guest memory
> PROT_MTE unless somebody's done at least a sketch of the design
> for how this would work on the QEMU side. Currently QEMU just
> assumes the guest memory is guest memory and it can access it
> without special precautions...

Although that is also changing because of the encrypted/protected memory
in things like SEV.

Dave

> thanks
> -- PMM
> 
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Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilbert@xxxxxxxxxx / Manchester, UK