Documentation: document the ABI changes for KVM_CAP_ARM_MTE
authorPeter Collingbourne <pcc@google.com>
Fri, 4 Nov 2022 01:10:41 +0000 (18:10 -0700)
committerMarc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Tue, 29 Nov 2022 09:26:07 +0000 (09:26 +0000)
Document both the restriction on VM_MTE_ALLOWED mappings and
the relaxation for shared mappings.

Signed-off-by: Peter Collingbourne <pcc@google.com>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221104011041.290951-9-pcc@google.com
Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst

index eee9f857a986f52c802882f6378eccdd94c4fcb6..b55f80dadcfeb405055a4bb1d13c762ad92b6c84 100644 (file)
@@ -7385,8 +7385,9 @@ hibernation of the host; however the VMM needs to manually save/restore the
 tags as appropriate if the VM is migrated.
 
 When this capability is enabled all memory in memslots must be mapped as
-not-shareable (no MAP_SHARED), attempts to create a memslot with a
-MAP_SHARED mmap will result in an -EINVAL return.
+``MAP_ANONYMOUS`` or with a RAM-based file mapping (``tmpfs``, ``memfd``),
+attempts to create a memslot with an invalid mmap will result in an
+-EINVAL return.
 
 When enabled the VMM may make use of the ``KVM_ARM_MTE_COPY_TAGS`` ioctl to
 perform a bulk copy of tags to/from the guest.