Re: [PATCH 2/3] KVM: arm64: Declare support for KVM_CAP_MEMORY_FAULT_INFO

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On Wed, Aug 07, 2024 at 07:15:16AM -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 06, 2024, Oliver Upton wrote:
> > This sort of language generally isn't necessary in UAPI descriptions. We
> > cannot exhaustively describe the ways userspace might misuse an
> > interface.
> 
> I don't disagree in general, but I think this one is worth calling out because
> it's easy to screw up and arguably the most likely "failure" scenario.  E.g. KVM
> has had multiple bugs (I can think of four off the top of my head) where a vCPU
> gets stuck because KVM doesn't resolve a fault.  It's not hard to imagine userspace
> doing the same.

Yeah, I don't see any reason to go and rip it out, just a suggestion for
the next time around.

-- 
Thanks,
Oliver




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