linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 6/6] arm/kvm: arm64: Add a vcpu feature for pointer authentication

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Message-ID: <1d5f5167-8606-3bda-a195-b962c99eb196@arm.com>
Date:   Fri, 4 Jan 2019 17:59:27 +0000
From:   James Morse <james.morse@....com>
To:     Amit Daniel Kachhap <amit.kachhap@....com>
Cc:     linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Kristina Martsenko <kristina.martsenko@....com>,
        kvmarm@...ts.cs.columbia.edu,
        Ramana Radhakrishnan <ramana.radhakrishnan@....com>,
        Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@....com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 6/6] arm/kvm: arm64: Add a vcpu feature for pointer
 authentication

Hi Amit,

On 18/12/2018 07:56, Amit Daniel Kachhap wrote:
> This is a runtime feature and can be enabled by --ptrauth option.

It took me a little while to realise this was a kvmtool patch. could you put
something in the patch-subject to make this obvious? e.g:
https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/pipermail/kvmarm/2018-September/thread.html#32734


Thanks,

James