[PATCH RFC v2 0/2] arm: enable MTE for QEMU + kvm

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This series makes it possible to enable MTE for kvm guests, if the kernel
supports it. Again, tested on the simulator via patiently waiting for the
arm64/mte kselftests to finish successfully.

For tcg, turning on mte on the machine level (to get tag memory) stays a
requirement. If the new mte cpu feature is not explicitly specified, a tcg
vm will get mte depending on the presence of tag memory (just as today).

For kvm, mte stays off by default; this is because migration is not yet
supported (postcopy will need an extension of the kernel interface, possibly
an extension of the userfaultfd interface), and turning on mte will add a
migration blocker.

My biggest question going forward is actually concerning migration; I gather
that we should not bother adding something unless postcopy is working as well?
If I'm not misunderstanding things, we need a way to fault in a page together
with the tag; doing that in one go is probably the only way that we can be
sure that this is race-free on the QEMU side. Comments welcome :)

Changes v1->v2: [Thanks to Eric for the feedback!]
- add documentation
- switch the mte prop to OnOffAuto; this improves the interaction with the
  existing mte machine prop
- leave mte off for kvm by default
- improve tests; the poking in QDicts feels a bit ugly, but seems to work

Cornelia Huck (2):
  arm/kvm: add support for MTE
  qtests/arm: add some mte tests

 docs/system/arm/cpu-features.rst |  21 +++++
 target/arm/cpu.c                 |  18 ++---
 target/arm/cpu.h                 |   1 +
 target/arm/cpu64.c               | 132 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 target/arm/internals.h           |   1 +
 target/arm/kvm64.c               |   5 ++
 target/arm/kvm_arm.h             |  12 +++
 target/arm/monitor.c             |   1 +
 tests/qtest/arm-cpu-features.c   |  77 ++++++++++++++++++
 9 files changed, 256 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

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2.35.3




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