[PATCH v5 8/8] Documentation: document the ABI changes for KVM_CAP_ARM_MTE

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Document both the restriction on VM_MTE_ALLOWED mappings and
the relaxation for shared mappings.

Signed-off-by: Peter Collingbourne <pcc@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
---
 Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst
index eee9f857a986..b55f80dadcfe 100644
--- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst
+++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst
@@ -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.
-- 
2.38.1.431.g37b22c650d-goog

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