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Re: [PATCH] KVM: arm64: Ensure I-cache isolation between vcpus of a same VM

From: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Date: 2021-03-09 18:02:44
Also in: kvm, kvmarm

On Wed, 3 Mar 2021 16:45:05 +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:
It recently became apparent that the ARMv8 architecture has interesting
rules regarding attributes being used when fetching instructions
if the MMU is off at Stage-1.

In this situation, the CPU is allowed to fetch from the PoC and
allocate into the I-cache (unless the memory is mapped with
the XN attribute at Stage-2).

[...]
Applied to fixes, thanks!

[1/1] KVM: arm64: Ensure I-cache isolation between vcpus of a same VM
      commit: 01dc9262ff5797b675c32c0c6bc682777d23de05

Cheers,

	M.
-- 
Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.



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