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Date:   Mon, 7 Jun 2021 18:21:02 +0100
From:   Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:     Steven Price <steven.price@....com>
Cc:     Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>, Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        James Morse <james.morse@....com>,
        Julien Thierry <julien.thierry.kdev@...il.com>,
        Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>,
        kvmarm@...ts.cs.columbia.edu, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@....com>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, qemu-devel@...gnu.org,
        Juan Quintela <quintela@...hat.com>,
        "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@...hat.com>,
        Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@...aro.org>,
        Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@...aro.org>,
        Haibo Xu <Haibo.Xu@....com>, Andrew Jones <drjones@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v14 7/8] KVM: arm64: ioctl to fetch/store tags in a guest

On Mon, Jun 07, 2021 at 12:08:15PM +0100, Steven Price wrote:
> The VMM may not wish to have it's own mapping of guest memory mapped
> with PROT_MTE because this causes problems if the VMM has tag checking
> enabled (the guest controls the tags in physical RAM and it's unlikely
> the tags are correct for the VMM).
> 
> Instead add a new ioctl which allows the VMM to easily read/write the
> tags from guest memory, allowing the VMM's mapping to be non-PROT_MTE
> while the VMM can still read/write the tags for the purpose of
> migration.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Steven Price <steven.price@....com>

Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>

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