From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] KVM: Refactor kvm_arch_vcpu_fault() to return a struct page pointer
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2021 17:41:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d29447d4-a1b4-7f12-7bbc-8dc24cb38b72@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <98adbd3c-ec6f-5689-1686-2a8a7909951a@redhat.com>
On 12/08/21 11:04, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>
> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
>
> But at the same time I wonder if we should just get rid of
> CONFIG_KVM_S390_UCONTROL and consequently kvm_arch_vcpu_fault().
>
> In practice CONFIG_KVM_S390_UCONTROL, is never enabled in any reasonable
> kernel build and consequently it's never tested; further, exposing the
> sie_block to user space allows user space to generate random SIE
> validity intercepts.
>
> CONFIG_KVM_S390_UCONTROL feels like something that should just be
> maintained out of tree by someone who really needs to hack deep into hw
> virtualization for testing purposes etc.
I have no preference either way. It should definitely have selftests,
but in x86 land there are some features that are not covered by QEMU and
were nevertheless accepted upstream with selftests.
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-12 15:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2021-08-12 4:02 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] KVM: Refactor kvm_arch_vcpu_fault() to return a struct page pointer Hou Wenlong
2021-08-12 9:04 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-08-12 15:41 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2021-08-23 14:12 ` Christian Borntraeger
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