Re: [PATCH v6 02/11] arm64: Detect if in a realm and set RIPAS RAM
From: Catalin Marinas
Date: Fri Oct 11 2024 - 09:13:16 EST
On Fri, Oct 04, 2024 at 04:05:17PM +0100, Steven Price wrote:
> I should have reworded this commit message to something like:
>
> """
> Detect that the VM is a realm guest by the presence of the RSI
> interface. This is done after PSCI has been initialised so that we can
> check the SMCCC conduit before making any RSI calls.
>
> If in a realm then iterate over all memory ensuring that it is marked as
> RIPAS RAM. The loader is required to do this for us, however if some
> memory is missed this will cause the guest to receive a hard to debug
> external abort at some random point in the future. So for a
> belt-and-braces approach set all memory to RIPAS RAM. Any failure here
> implies that the RAM regions passed to Linux are incorrect so panic()
> promptly to make the situation clear.
> """
With the updated commit description, the patch looks fine to me.
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>