From: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@amd.com>,
peterx@redhat.com, Chenyi Qiang <chenyi.qiang@intel.com>,
Juraj Marcin <jmarcin@redhat.com>,
Li Xiaoyao <xiaoyao.li@intel.com>,
Fabiano Rosas <farosas@suse.de>
Subject: [PATCH v2 1/9] kvm: Decouple memory attribute check from kvm_guest_memfd_supported
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2025 12:29:05 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251119172913.577392-2-peterx@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251119172913.577392-1-peterx@redhat.com>
From: Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@intel.com>
With the mmap support of guest memfd, KVM allows usersapce to create
guest memfd serving as normal non-private memory for X86 DEFEAULT VM.
However, KVM doesn't support private memory attriute for X86 DEFAULT
VM.
Make kvm_guest_memfd_supported not rely on KVM_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTE_PRIVATE
and check KVM_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTE_PRIVATE separately when the machine
requires guest_memfd to serve as private memory.
This allows QMEU to create guest memfd with mmap to serve as the memory
backend for X86 DEFAULT VM.
Signed-off-by: Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
---
include/system/kvm.h | 1 +
accel/kvm/kvm-all.c | 8 ++++++--
accel/stubs/kvm-stub.c | 5 +++++
system/physmem.c | 8 ++++++++
4 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/system/kvm.h b/include/system/kvm.h
index 8f9eecf044..b5811c90f1 100644
--- a/include/system/kvm.h
+++ b/include/system/kvm.h
@@ -561,6 +561,7 @@ int kvm_create_guest_memfd(uint64_t size, uint64_t flags, Error **errp);
int kvm_set_memory_attributes_private(hwaddr start, uint64_t size);
int kvm_set_memory_attributes_shared(hwaddr start, uint64_t size);
+bool kvm_private_memory_attribute_supported(void);
int kvm_convert_memory(hwaddr start, hwaddr size, bool to_private);
diff --git a/accel/kvm/kvm-all.c b/accel/kvm/kvm-all.c
index f9254ae654..96c194ce54 100644
--- a/accel/kvm/kvm-all.c
+++ b/accel/kvm/kvm-all.c
@@ -1501,6 +1501,11 @@ int kvm_set_memory_attributes_shared(hwaddr start, uint64_t size)
return kvm_set_memory_attributes(start, size, 0);
}
+bool kvm_private_memory_attribute_supported(void)
+{
+ return !!(kvm_supported_memory_attributes & KVM_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTE_PRIVATE);
+}
+
/* Called with KVMMemoryListener.slots_lock held */
static void kvm_set_phys_mem(KVMMemoryListener *kml,
MemoryRegionSection *section, bool add)
@@ -2781,8 +2786,7 @@ static int kvm_init(AccelState *as, MachineState *ms)
kvm_supported_memory_attributes = kvm_vm_check_extension(s, KVM_CAP_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES);
kvm_guest_memfd_supported =
kvm_vm_check_extension(s, KVM_CAP_GUEST_MEMFD) &&
- kvm_vm_check_extension(s, KVM_CAP_USER_MEMORY2) &&
- (kvm_supported_memory_attributes & KVM_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTE_PRIVATE);
+ kvm_vm_check_extension(s, KVM_CAP_USER_MEMORY2);
kvm_pre_fault_memory_supported = kvm_vm_check_extension(s, KVM_CAP_PRE_FAULT_MEMORY);
if (s->kernel_irqchip_split == ON_OFF_AUTO_AUTO) {
diff --git a/accel/stubs/kvm-stub.c b/accel/stubs/kvm-stub.c
index 68cd33ba97..73f04eb589 100644
--- a/accel/stubs/kvm-stub.c
+++ b/accel/stubs/kvm-stub.c
@@ -125,3 +125,8 @@ int kvm_create_guest_memfd(uint64_t size, uint64_t flags, Error **errp)
{
return -ENOSYS;
}
+
+bool kvm_private_memory_attribute_supported(void)
+{
+ return false;
+}
diff --git a/system/physmem.c b/system/physmem.c
index c9869e4049..3555d2f6f7 100644
--- a/system/physmem.c
+++ b/system/physmem.c
@@ -2211,6 +2211,14 @@ static void ram_block_add(RAMBlock *new_block, Error **errp)
object_get_typename(OBJECT(current_machine->cgs)));
goto out_free;
}
+
+ if (!kvm_private_memory_attribute_supported()) {
+ error_setg(errp, "cannot set up private guest memory for %s: "
+ " KVM does not support private memory attribute",
+ object_get_typename(OBJECT(current_machine->cgs)));
+ goto out_free;
+ }
+
assert(new_block->guest_memfd < 0);
ret = ram_block_coordinated_discard_require(true);
--
2.50.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-11-19 17:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-11-19 17:29 [PATCH v2 0/9] KVM/hostmem: Support init-shared guest-memfd as VM backends Peter Xu
2025-11-19 17:29 ` Peter Xu [this message]
2025-11-19 17:29 ` [PATCH v2 2/9] kvm: Detect guest-memfd flags supported Peter Xu
2025-12-11 6:56 ` Xiaoyao Li
2025-12-12 3:10 ` Xiaoyao Li
2025-12-12 17:23 ` Peter Xu
2025-12-15 2:31 ` Xiaoyao Li
2025-11-19 17:29 ` [PATCH v2 3/9] memory: Rename RAM_GUEST_MEMFD to RAM_GUEST_MEMFD_PRIVATE Peter Xu
2025-12-11 7:05 ` Xiaoyao Li
2025-11-19 17:29 ` [PATCH v2 4/9] memory: Rename memory_region_has_guest_memfd() to *_private() Peter Xu
2025-12-11 7:10 ` Xiaoyao Li
2025-12-11 15:45 ` Peter Xu
2025-11-19 17:29 ` [PATCH v2 5/9] ramblock: Rename guest_memfd to guest_memfd_private Peter Xu
2025-12-11 7:10 ` Xiaoyao Li
2025-11-19 17:29 ` [PATCH v2 6/9] hostmem: " Peter Xu
2025-12-11 7:16 ` Xiaoyao Li
2025-12-11 16:15 ` Peter Xu
2025-11-19 17:29 ` [PATCH v2 7/9] hostmem: Support in-place guest memfd to back a VM Peter Xu
2025-12-11 7:41 ` Xiaoyao Li
2025-12-11 16:27 ` Peter Xu
2025-12-12 3:05 ` Xiaoyao Li
2025-12-12 17:41 ` Peter Xu
2025-12-15 2:57 ` Xiaoyao Li
2025-11-19 17:29 ` [PATCH v2 8/9] tests/migration-test: Support guest-memfd init shared mem type Peter Xu
2025-11-19 17:29 ` [PATCH v2 9/9] tests/migration-test: Add a precopy test for guest-memfd Peter Xu
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