On Thu, 06 Jan 2022 18:26:29 +0000, Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Mm. It does beg the question of why KVM exposes multiple bits. If > they must be tied, then it only serves to make the interface more > complicated than necessary. We would be better served to have a > single bit to control all of PAuth. In hindsight, there is a lot I would change in the KVM userspace ABI, and a lot I should have pushed back on. Unfortunately, there is little we can do now to fix it (userspace expecting this behaviour has been in the wild for almost 3 years already). M. -- Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
