Re: [PATCH 24/35] KVM: s390: protvirt: disallow one_reg

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On Fri,  7 Feb 2020 06:39:47 -0500
Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Janosch Frank <frankja@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> A lot of the registers are controlled by the Ultravisor and never
> visible to KVM. Some fields in the sie control block are overlayed,
> like gbea. As no userspace uses the ONE_REG interface on s390 it is safe
> to disable this for protected guests.

Last round, I suggested

"As no known userspace uses the ONE_REG interface on s390 if sync regs
are available, no functionality is lost if it is disabled for protected
guests."

Any opinion on that?

> 
> Signed-off-by: Janosch Frank <frankja@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@xxxxxxxxxx>
> [borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx: patch merging, splitting, fixing]
> Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  Documentation/virt/kvm/api.txt | 6 ++++--
>  arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c       | 3 +++
>  2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)




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