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

[Richard Henderson]

On 12/9/20 9:27 AM, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 09, 2020 at 01:25:18PM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>> Would this syscall operate on the guest address space? Or on the VMM's
>> own mapping?
...
> Whatever is easier for the VMM, I don't think it matters as long as the
> host kernel can get the actual physical address (and linear map
> correspondent). Maybe simpler if it's the VMM address space as the
> kernel can check the access permissions in case you want to hide the
> guest memory from the VMM for other reasons (migration is also off the
> table).

Indeed, such a syscall is no longer specific to vmm's and may be used for any
bulk move of tags that userland might want.

> Without syscalls, an option would be for the VMM to create two mappings:
> one with PROT_MTE for migration and the other without for normal DMA
> etc. That's achievable using memfd_create() or shm_open() and two mmap()
> calls, only one having PROT_MTE. The VMM address space should be
> sufficiently large to map two guest IPAs.

I would have thought that the best way is to use TCO, so that we don't have to
have dual mappings (and however many MB of extra page tables that might imply).


r~