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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 6/6] arm/kvm: arm64: Add a vcpu feature for pointer
 authentication
To:     Amit Daniel Kachhap <amit.kachhap@arm.com>
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From:   James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
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Hi Amit,

On 18/12/2018 07:56, Amit Daniel Kachhap wrote:
> This is a runtime feature and can be enabled by --ptrauth option.

It took me a little while to realise this was a kvmtool patch. could you put
something in the patch-subject to make this obvious? e.g:
https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/pipermail/kvmarm/2018-September/thread.html#32734


Thanks,

James