From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Chao Peng <chao.p.peng@linux.intel.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 4/8] KVM: Extend the memslot to support fd-based private memory
Date: Fri, 20 May 2022 18:31:02 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YofeZps9YXgtP3f1@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8840b360-cdb2-244c-bfb6-9a0e7306c188@kernel.org>
On Fri, May 20, 2022, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> The alternative would be to have some kind of separate table or bitmap (part
> of the memslot?) that tells KVM whether a GPA should map to the fd.
>
> What do you all think?
My original proposal was to have expolicit shared vs. private memslots, and punch
holes in KVM's memslots on conversion, but due to the way KVM (and userspace)
handle memslot updates, conversions would be painfully slow. That's how we ended
up with the current propsoal.
But a dedicated KVM ioctl() to add/remove shared ranges would be easy to implement
and wouldn't necessarily even need to interact with the memslots. It could be a
consumer of memslots, e.g. if we wanted to disallow registering regions without an
associated memslot, but I think we'd want to avoid even that because things will
get messy during memslot updates, e.g. if dirty logging is toggled or a shared
memory region is temporarily removed then we wouldn't want to destroy the tracking.
I don't think we'd want to use a bitmap, e.g. for a well-behaved guest, XArray
should be far more efficient.
One benefit to explicitly tracking this in KVM is that it might be useful for
software-only protected VMs, e.g. KVM could mark a region in the XArray as "pending"
based on guest hypercalls to share/unshare memory, and then complete the transaction
when userspace invokes the ioctl() to complete the share/unshare.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-05-20 18:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-05-19 15:37 [PATCH v6 0/8] KVM: mm: fd-based approach for supporting KVM guest private memory Chao Peng
2022-05-19 15:37 ` [PATCH v6 1/8] mm: Introduce memfile_notifier Chao Peng
2022-05-19 15:37 ` [PATCH v6 2/8] mm/shmem: Support memfile_notifier Chao Peng
2022-05-19 15:37 ` [PATCH v6 3/8] mm/memfd: Introduce MFD_INACCESSIBLE flag Chao Peng
2022-05-31 19:15 ` Vishal Annapurve
2022-06-01 10:17 ` Chao Peng
2022-06-01 12:11 ` Gupta, Pankaj
2022-06-02 10:07 ` Chao Peng
2022-06-14 20:23 ` Sean Christopherson
2022-06-15 8:53 ` Chao Peng
2022-05-19 15:37 ` [PATCH v6 4/8] KVM: Extend the memslot to support fd-based private memory Chao Peng
2022-05-20 17:57 ` Andy Lutomirski
2022-05-20 18:31 ` Sean Christopherson [this message]
2022-05-22 4:03 ` Andy Lutomirski
2022-05-23 13:21 ` Chao Peng
2022-05-23 15:22 ` Sean Christopherson
2022-05-30 13:26 ` Chao Peng
2022-06-10 16:14 ` Sean Christopherson
2022-06-14 6:45 ` Chao Peng
2022-06-23 22:59 ` Michael Roth
2022-06-24 8:54 ` Chao Peng
2022-06-24 13:01 ` Michael Roth
2022-06-17 20:52 ` Sean Christopherson
2022-06-17 21:27 ` Sean Christopherson
2022-06-20 14:09 ` Chao Peng
2022-06-20 14:08 ` Chao Peng
2022-05-19 15:37 ` [PATCH v6 5/8] KVM: Add KVM_EXIT_MEMORY_FAULT exit Chao Peng
2022-05-19 15:37 ` [PATCH v6 6/8] KVM: Handle page fault for private memory Chao Peng
2022-06-17 21:30 ` Sean Christopherson
2022-06-20 14:16 ` Chao Peng
2022-08-19 0:40 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2022-08-25 23:43 ` Sean Christopherson
2022-06-24 3:58 ` Nikunj A. Dadhania
2022-06-24 9:02 ` Chao Peng
2022-06-30 19:14 ` Vishal Annapurve
2022-06-30 22:21 ` Michael Roth
2022-07-01 1:21 ` Xiaoyao Li
2022-07-07 20:08 ` Sean Christopherson
2022-07-08 3:29 ` Xiaoyao Li
2022-07-20 23:08 ` Vishal Annapurve
2022-07-21 9:45 ` Chao Peng
2022-05-19 15:37 ` [PATCH v6 7/8] KVM: Enable and expose KVM_MEM_PRIVATE Chao Peng
2022-06-23 22:07 ` Michael Roth
2022-06-24 8:43 ` Chao Peng
2022-05-19 15:37 ` [PATCH v6 8/8] memfd_create.2: Describe MFD_INACCESSIBLE flag Chao Peng
2022-06-06 20:09 ` [PATCH v6 0/8] KVM: mm: fd-based approach for supporting KVM guest private memory Vishal Annapurve
2022-06-07 6:57 ` Chao Peng
2022-06-08 0:55 ` Marc Orr
2022-06-08 2:18 ` Chao Peng
2022-06-08 19:37 ` Vishal Annapurve
2022-06-09 20:29 ` Sean Christopherson
2022-06-14 7:28 ` Chao Peng
2022-06-14 17:37 ` Andy Lutomirski
2022-06-14 19:08 ` Sean Christopherson
2022-06-14 20:59 ` Andy Lutomirski
2022-06-15 9:17 ` Chao Peng
2022-06-15 14:29 ` Sean Christopherson
2022-06-10 0:11 ` Marc Orr
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