The Memory Tagging Extensions are hardware acceleration present
in some ARM processors that allow memory error detection [1].
Introduce a domain XML knob that turns them on or off.
1:
https://www.arm.com/blogs/blueprint/memory-safety-arm-memory-tagging-exte...
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn(a)redhat.com>
---
docs/formatdomain.rst | 7 +++++++
src/conf/domain_conf.c | 6 +++++-
src/conf/domain_conf.h | 1 +
src/conf/schemas/domaincommon.rng | 5 +++++
src/qemu/qemu_validate.c | 1 +
tests/qemuxml2argvdata/aarch64-gic-v3.xml | 1 +
tests/qemuxml2xmloutdata/aarch64-gic-v3.aarch64-latest.xml | 1 +
7 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/docs/formatdomain.rst b/docs/formatdomain.rst
index 99383e725c..1f52f58d37 100644
--- a/docs/formatdomain.rst
+++ b/docs/formatdomain.rst
@@ -2000,6 +2000,7 @@ Hypervisors may allow certain CPU / machine features to be toggled
on/off.
<tcg>
<tb-cache unit='MiB'>128</tb-cache>
</tcg>
+ <mte state='on'/>
</features>
...
@@ -2230,6 +2231,12 @@ are:
tb-cache The size of translation block cache size an integer (a multiple of
MiB) :since:`8.0.0`
=========== ==============================================
=================================================== ==============
+``mte``
+ Configure Memory Tagging Extensions for ARM guests. Possible values for the
+ ``state`` attribute are ``on`` and ``off``. If the attribute is not
+ defined, the hypervisor default will be used. :since:`Since 9.4.0` (QEMU/KVM
+ only)
+
Time keeping
------------
diff --git a/src/conf/domain_conf.c b/src/conf/domain_conf.c
index 6a864a8db9..047a4c97bf 100644
--- a/src/conf/domain_conf.c
+++ b/src/conf/domain_conf.c
@@ -181,6 +181,7 @@ VIR_ENUM_IMPL(virDomainFeature,
"sbbc",
"ibs",
"tcg",
+ "mte",
);
VIR_ENUM_IMPL(virDomainCapabilitiesPolicy,
@@ -16645,7 +16646,8 @@ virDomainFeaturesDefParse(virDomainDef *def,
case VIR_DOMAIN_FEATURE_HTM:
case VIR_DOMAIN_FEATURE_NESTED_HV:
- case VIR_DOMAIN_FEATURE_CCF_ASSIST: {
+ case VIR_DOMAIN_FEATURE_CCF_ASSIST:
+ case VIR_DOMAIN_FEATURE_MTE: {
virTristateSwitch state;
if (virXMLPropTristateSwitch(nodes[i], "state",
@@ -20486,6 +20488,7 @@ virDomainDefFeaturesCheckABIStability(virDomainDef *src,
case VIR_DOMAIN_FEATURE_HTM:
case VIR_DOMAIN_FEATURE_NESTED_HV:
case VIR_DOMAIN_FEATURE_CCF_ASSIST:
+ case VIR_DOMAIN_FEATURE_MTE:
if (src->features[i] != dst->features[i]) {
virReportError(VIR_ERR_CONFIG_UNSUPPORTED,
_("State of feature '%1$s' differs: source:
'%2$s', destination: '%3$s'"),
@@ -27005,6 +27008,7 @@ virDomainDefFormatFeatures(virBuffer *buf,
case VIR_DOMAIN_FEATURE_HTM:
case VIR_DOMAIN_FEATURE_NESTED_HV:
case VIR_DOMAIN_FEATURE_CCF_ASSIST:
+ case VIR_DOMAIN_FEATURE_MTE:
switch ((virTristateSwitch) def->features[i]) {
case VIR_TRISTATE_SWITCH_LAST:
case VIR_TRISTATE_SWITCH_ABSENT:
diff --git a/src/conf/domain_conf.h b/src/conf/domain_conf.h
index c1cb2ed69d..3f8d6e81c0 100644
--- a/src/conf/domain_conf.h
+++ b/src/conf/domain_conf.h
@@ -2169,6 +2169,7 @@ typedef enum {
VIR_DOMAIN_FEATURE_SBBC,
VIR_DOMAIN_FEATURE_IBS,
VIR_DOMAIN_FEATURE_TCG,
+ VIR_DOMAIN_FEATURE_MTE,
VIR_DOMAIN_FEATURE_LAST
} virDomainFeature;
diff --git a/src/conf/schemas/domaincommon.rng b/src/conf/schemas/domaincommon.rng
index f8c7b6a648..37e350ac2c 100644
--- a/src/conf/schemas/domaincommon.rng
+++ b/src/conf/schemas/domaincommon.rng
@@ -6653,6 +6653,11 @@
<optional>
<ref name="tcgfeatures"/>
</optional>
+ <optional>
+ <element name="mte">
+ <ref name="featurestate"/>
+ </element>
+ </optional>
</interleave>
</element>
</optional>
diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_validate.c b/src/qemu/qemu_validate.c
index da4b9a3b35..99c7775e9b 100644
--- a/src/qemu/qemu_validate.c
+++ b/src/qemu/qemu_validate.c
@@ -123,6 +123,7 @@ qemuValidateDomainDefFeatures(const virDomainDef *def,
break;
case VIR_DOMAIN_FEATURE_GIC:
+ case VIR_DOMAIN_FEATURE_MTE:
if (def->features[i] == VIR_TRISTATE_SWITCH_ON &&
!qemuDomainIsARMVirt(def)) {
virReportError(VIR_ERR_CONFIG_UNSUPPORTED,
diff --git a/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/aarch64-gic-v3.xml
b/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/aarch64-gic-v3.xml
index 247d6025f7..b9317284b0 100644
--- a/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/aarch64-gic-v3.xml
+++ b/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/aarch64-gic-v3.xml
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
</os>
<features>
<gic version='3'/>
+ <mte state='on'/>
</features>
<cpu mode='host-passthrough' check='none'/>
<clock offset='utc'/>
diff --git a/tests/qemuxml2xmloutdata/aarch64-gic-v3.aarch64-latest.xml
b/tests/qemuxml2xmloutdata/aarch64-gic-v3.aarch64-latest.xml
index 5b2fb7df75..1a74903aaa 100644
--- a/tests/qemuxml2xmloutdata/aarch64-gic-v3.aarch64-latest.xml
+++ b/tests/qemuxml2xmloutdata/aarch64-gic-v3.aarch64-latest.xml
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
</os>
<features>
<gic version='3'/>
+ <mte state='on'/>
</features>
<cpu mode='host-passthrough' check='none'/>
<clock offset='utc'/>
--
2.39.3