Thread (20 messages) 20 messages, 3 authors, 2024-09-02

Re: [PATCH v9 5/5] KVM: arm64: Introduce the PTDUMP_STAGE2_DEBUGFS config

From: Vincent Donnefort <hidden>
Date: 2024-08-30 10:26:19
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On Tue, Aug 27, 2024 at 08:45:48AM +0000, Sebastian Ene wrote:
When this config is enabled, it exposes the stage-2 pagetable layout
through a debugfs file.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Ene <redacted>
It doesn't feel like having a separated patch for Kconfig brings anything and
I would have squashed it with the previous change.

Otherwise:

Reviewed-by: Vincent Donnefort <redacted>
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
---
 arch/arm64/kvm/Kconfig | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/kvm/Kconfig
index 8304eb342be9..ead632ad01b4 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kvm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/Kconfig
@@ -66,4 +66,21 @@ config PROTECTED_NVHE_STACKTRACE
 
 	  If unsure, or not using protected nVHE (pKVM), say N.
 
+config PTDUMP_STAGE2_DEBUGFS
+	bool "Present the stage-2 pagetables to debugfs"
+	depends on KVM
+	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
+	depends on DEBUG_FS
+	depends on GENERIC_PTDUMP
+	select PTDUMP_CORE
+	default n
+	help
+	  Say Y here if you want to show the stage-2 kernel pagetables
+	  layout in a debugfs file. This information is only useful for kernel developers
+	  who are working in architecture specific areas of the kernel.
+	  It is probably not a good idea to enable this feature in a production
+	  kernel.
+
+	  If in doubt, say N.
+
 endif # VIRTUALIZATION
-- 
2.46.0.295.g3b9ea8a38a-goog
  
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