On Thu, 06 Jan 2022 18:26:29 +0000,
Richard Henderson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Mm. It does beg the question of why KVM exposes multiple bits. If
> they must be tied, then it only serves to make the interface more
> complicated than necessary. We would be better served to have a
> single bit to control all of PAuth.
In hindsight, there is a lot I would change in the KVM userspace ABI,
and a lot I should have pushed back on. Unfortunately, there is little
we can do now to fix it (userspace expecting this behaviour has been
in the wild for almost 3 years already).
M.
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