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From: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
To: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>,
	Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>,
	Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
	Haibo Xu <haibo.xu@linaro.org>,
	lkml - Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>,
	QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	"Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	kvmarm <kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu>,
	arm-mail-list <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/2] MTE support for KVM guest
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2020 14:13:05 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6b9072fb-1232-e9fb-0b97-e69709980f99@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201209183920.GI13566@gaia>

On 12/9/20 12:39 PM, Catalin Marinas wrote:
>> 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).
> 
> The problem appears when the VMM wants to use MTE itself (e.g. linked
> against an MTE-aware glibc), toggling TCO is no longer generic enough,
> especially when it comes to device emulation.

But we do know exactly when we're manipulating guest memory -- we have special
routines for that.  So the special routines gain a toggle of TCO around the
exact guest memory manipulation, not a blanket disable of MTE across large
swaths of QEMU.


r~

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From: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
To: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
	Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>,
	QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>,
	lkml - Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>,
	arm-mail-list <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	Haibo Xu <haibo.xu@linaro.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	kvmarm <kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu>,
	"Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>,
	Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/2] MTE support for KVM guest
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2020 14:13:05 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6b9072fb-1232-e9fb-0b97-e69709980f99@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201209183920.GI13566@gaia>

On 12/9/20 12:39 PM, Catalin Marinas wrote:
>> 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).
> 
> The problem appears when the VMM wants to use MTE itself (e.g. linked
> against an MTE-aware glibc), toggling TCO is no longer generic enough,
> especially when it comes to device emulation.

But we do know exactly when we're manipulating guest memory -- we have special
routines for that.  So the special routines gain a toggle of TCO around the
exact guest memory manipulation, not a blanket disable of MTE across large
swaths of QEMU.


r~


WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
To: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>,
	QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>,
	lkml - Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>,
	arm-mail-list <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	kvmarm <kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu>,
	"Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>,
	Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/2] MTE support for KVM guest
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2020 14:13:05 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6b9072fb-1232-e9fb-0b97-e69709980f99@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201209183920.GI13566@gaia>

On 12/9/20 12:39 PM, Catalin Marinas wrote:
>> 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).
> 
> The problem appears when the VMM wants to use MTE itself (e.g. linked
> against an MTE-aware glibc), toggling TCO is no longer generic enough,
> especially when it comes to device emulation.

But we do know exactly when we're manipulating guest memory -- we have special
routines for that.  So the special routines gain a toggle of TCO around the
exact guest memory manipulation, not a blanket disable of MTE across large
swaths of QEMU.


r~
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From: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
To: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
	Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>,
	QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>,
	lkml - Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>,
	arm-mail-list <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	Haibo Xu <haibo.xu@linaro.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	kvmarm <kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu>,
	"Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>,
	Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/2] MTE support for KVM guest
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2020 14:13:05 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6b9072fb-1232-e9fb-0b97-e69709980f99@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201209183920.GI13566@gaia>

On 12/9/20 12:39 PM, Catalin Marinas wrote:
>> 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).
> 
> The problem appears when the VMM wants to use MTE itself (e.g. linked
> against an MTE-aware glibc), toggling TCO is no longer generic enough,
> especially when it comes to device emulation.

But we do know exactly when we're manipulating guest memory -- we have special
routines for that.  So the special routines gain a toggle of TCO around the
exact guest memory manipulation, not a blanket disable of MTE across large
swaths of QEMU.


r~

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-09 20:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 152+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-19 15:38 [PATCH v5 0/2] MTE support for KVM guest Steven Price
2020-11-19 15:38 ` Steven Price
2020-11-19 15:38 ` Steven Price
2020-11-19 15:38 ` Steven Price
2020-11-19 15:39 ` [PATCH v5 1/2] arm64: kvm: Save/restore MTE registers Steven Price
2020-11-19 15:39   ` Steven Price
2020-11-19 15:39   ` Steven Price
2020-11-19 15:39   ` Steven Price
2020-11-19 15:39 ` [PATCH v5 2/2] arm64: kvm: Introduce MTE VCPU feature Steven Price
2020-11-19 15:39   ` Steven Price
2020-11-19 15:39   ` Steven Price
2020-11-19 15:39   ` Steven Price
2020-11-19 15:45 ` [PATCH v5 0/2] MTE support for KVM guest Peter Maydell
2020-11-19 15:45   ` Peter Maydell
2020-11-19 15:45   ` Peter Maydell
2020-11-19 15:45   ` Peter Maydell
2020-11-19 15:57   ` Steven Price
2020-11-19 15:57     ` Steven Price
2020-11-19 15:57     ` Steven Price
2020-11-19 15:57     ` Steven Price
2020-11-19 16:39     ` Peter Maydell
2020-11-19 16:39       ` Peter Maydell
2020-11-19 16:39       ` Peter Maydell
2020-11-19 16:39       ` Peter Maydell
2020-11-19 18:42   ` Andrew Jones
2020-11-19 18:42     ` Andrew Jones
2020-11-19 18:42     ` Andrew Jones
2020-11-19 18:42     ` Andrew Jones
2020-11-19 19:11     ` Marc Zyngier
2020-11-19 19:11       ` Marc Zyngier
2020-11-19 19:11       ` Marc Zyngier
2020-11-19 19:11       ` Marc Zyngier
2020-11-20  9:50       ` Steven Price
2020-11-20  9:50         ` Steven Price
2020-11-20  9:50         ` Steven Price
2020-11-20  9:50         ` Steven Price
2020-11-20  9:56         ` Marc Zyngier
2020-11-20  9:56           ` Marc Zyngier
2020-11-20  9:56           ` Marc Zyngier
2020-11-20  9:56           ` Marc Zyngier
2020-11-20  9:58           ` Steven Price
2020-11-20  9:58             ` Steven Price
2020-11-20  9:58             ` Steven Price
2020-11-20  9:58             ` Steven Price
2020-12-04  8:25         ` Haibo Xu
2020-12-04  8:25           ` Haibo Xu
2020-12-04  8:25           ` Haibo Xu
2020-12-04  8:25           ` Haibo Xu
2020-12-07 14:48           ` Steven Price
2020-12-07 14:48             ` Steven Price
2020-12-07 14:48             ` Steven Price
2020-12-07 14:48             ` Steven Price
2020-12-07 15:27             ` Peter Maydell
2020-12-07 15:27               ` Peter Maydell
2020-12-07 15:27               ` Peter Maydell
2020-12-07 15:27               ` Peter Maydell
2020-12-07 15:45               ` Steven Price
2020-12-07 15:45                 ` Steven Price
2020-12-07 15:45                 ` Steven Price
2020-12-07 15:45                 ` Steven Price
2020-12-07 16:05                 ` Marc Zyngier
2020-12-07 16:05                   ` Marc Zyngier
2020-12-07 16:05                   ` Marc Zyngier
2020-12-07 16:05                   ` Marc Zyngier
2020-12-07 16:34                   ` Catalin Marinas
2020-12-07 16:34                     ` Catalin Marinas
2020-12-07 16:34                     ` Catalin Marinas
2020-12-07 16:34                     ` Catalin Marinas
2020-12-07 19:03                     ` Marc Zyngier
2020-12-07 19:03                       ` Marc Zyngier
2020-12-07 19:03                       ` Marc Zyngier
2020-12-07 19:03                       ` Marc Zyngier
2020-12-08 17:21                       ` Catalin Marinas
2020-12-08 17:21                         ` Catalin Marinas
2020-12-08 17:21                         ` Catalin Marinas
2020-12-08 17:21                         ` Catalin Marinas
2020-12-08 18:21                         ` Marc Zyngier
2020-12-08 18:21                           ` Marc Zyngier
2020-12-08 18:21                           ` Marc Zyngier
2020-12-08 18:21                           ` Marc Zyngier
2020-12-09 12:44                           ` Catalin Marinas
2020-12-09 12:44                             ` Catalin Marinas
2020-12-09 12:44                             ` Catalin Marinas
2020-12-09 12:44                             ` Catalin Marinas
2020-12-09 13:25                             ` Marc Zyngier
2020-12-09 13:25                               ` Marc Zyngier
2020-12-09 13:25                               ` Marc Zyngier
2020-12-09 13:25                               ` Marc Zyngier
2020-12-09 15:27                               ` Catalin Marinas
2020-12-09 15:27                                 ` Catalin Marinas
2020-12-09 15:27                                 ` Catalin Marinas
2020-12-09 15:27                                 ` Catalin Marinas
2020-12-09 18:27                                 ` Richard Henderson
2020-12-09 18:27                                   ` Richard Henderson
2020-12-09 18:27                                   ` Richard Henderson
2020-12-09 18:27                                   ` Richard Henderson
2020-12-09 18:39                                   ` Catalin Marinas
2020-12-09 18:39                                     ` Catalin Marinas
2020-12-09 18:39                                     ` Catalin Marinas
2020-12-09 18:39                                     ` Catalin Marinas
2020-12-09 20:13                                     ` Richard Henderson [this message]
2020-12-09 20:13                                       ` Richard Henderson
2020-12-09 20:13                                       ` Richard Henderson
2020-12-09 20:13                                       ` Richard Henderson
2020-12-09 20:20                                       ` Peter Maydell
2020-12-09 20:20                                         ` Peter Maydell
2020-12-09 20:20                                         ` Peter Maydell
2020-12-09 20:20                                         ` Peter Maydell
2020-12-07 16:44                 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2020-12-07 16:44                   ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2020-12-07 16:44                   ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2020-12-07 16:44                   ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2020-12-07 17:10                   ` Peter Maydell
2020-12-07 17:10                     ` Peter Maydell
2020-12-07 17:10                     ` Peter Maydell
2020-12-07 17:10                     ` Peter Maydell
2020-12-07 17:44                     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2020-12-07 17:44                       ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2020-12-07 17:44                       ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2020-12-07 17:44                       ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2020-12-08 10:05                   ` Haibo Xu
2020-12-08 10:05                     ` Haibo Xu
2020-12-08 10:05                     ` Haibo Xu
2020-12-08 10:05                     ` Haibo Xu
2020-12-08  9:51             ` Haibo Xu
2020-12-08  9:51               ` Haibo Xu
2020-12-08  9:51               ` Haibo Xu
2020-12-08  9:51               ` Haibo Xu
2020-12-08 10:01               ` Marc Zyngier
2020-12-08 10:01                 ` Marc Zyngier
2020-12-08 10:01                 ` Marc Zyngier
2020-12-08 10:01                 ` Marc Zyngier
2020-12-08 10:10                 ` Haibo Xu
2020-12-08 10:10                   ` Haibo Xu
2020-12-08 10:10                   ` Haibo Xu
2020-12-08 10:10                   ` Haibo Xu
2020-12-16  7:31             ` Haibo Xu
2020-12-16  7:31               ` Haibo Xu
2020-12-16  7:31               ` Haibo Xu
2020-12-16  7:31               ` Haibo Xu
2020-12-16 10:22               ` Steven Price
2020-12-16 10:22                 ` Steven Price
2020-12-16 10:22                 ` Steven Price
2020-12-16 10:22                 ` Steven Price
2020-12-17  1:47                 ` Haibo Xu
2020-12-17  1:47                   ` Haibo Xu
2020-12-17  1:47                   ` Haibo Xu
2020-12-17  1:47                   ` Haibo Xu
2020-11-23 12:16   ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2020-11-23 12:16     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2020-11-23 12:16     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2020-11-23 12:16     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert

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