From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
To: Anish Moorthy <amoorthy@google.com>
Cc: oliver.upton@linux.dev, maz@kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
kvmarm@lists.linux.dev, robert.hoo.linux@gmail.com,
jthoughton@google.com, dmatlack@google.com,
axelrasmussen@google.com, peterx@redhat.com,
nadav.amit@gmail.com, isaku.yamahata@gmail.com,
kconsul@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 03/14] KVM: Documentation: Make note of the KVM_MEM_GUEST_MEMFD memslot flag
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2024 15:47:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZhXFZ1CLJazF9_k_@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240215235405.368539-4-amoorthy@google.com>
On Thu, Feb 15, 2024, Anish Moorthy wrote:
> This ioctl allows the user to create, modify or delete a guest physical
> memory slot. Bits 0-15 of "slot" specify the slot id and this value
> @@ -1382,12 +1383,16 @@ It is recommended that the lower 21 bits of guest_phys_addr and userspace_addr
> be identical. This allows large pages in the guest to be backed by large
> pages in the host.
>
> -The flags field supports two flags: KVM_MEM_LOG_DIRTY_PAGES and
> -KVM_MEM_READONLY. The former can be set to instruct KVM to keep track of
> +The flags field supports three flags
> +
> +1. KVM_MEM_LOG_DIRTY_PAGES: can be set to instruct KVM to keep track of
> writes to memory within the slot. See KVM_GET_DIRTY_LOG ioctl to know how to
This formatting is funky. I suspect you are trying to avoid touching lines that
otherwise wouldn't be modified, but the end result is hard to read. I would also
opportunistically clean up the wording in general, e.g.
1. KVM_MEM_LOG_DIRTY_PAGES: can be set to instruct KVM to keep track of writes
to memory within the slot. See KVM_GET_DIRTY_LOG ioctl for details.
> -use it. The latter can be set, if KVM_CAP_READONLY_MEM capability allows it,
> +use it.
> +2. KVM_MEM_READONLY: can be set, if KVM_CAP_READONLY_MEM capability allows it,
> to make a new slot read-only. In this case, writes to this memory will be
> posted to userspace as KVM_EXIT_MMIO exits.
> +3. KVM_MEM_GUEST_MEMFD: see KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION2. This flag is
> +incompatible with KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION.
This is now stale, as KVM_MEM_GUEST_MEMFD is also incompatible with READONLY.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-04-09 22:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-02-15 23:53 [PATCH v7 00/14] Improve KVM + userfaultfd performance via KVM_EXIT_MEMORY_FAULTs on stage-2 faults Anish Moorthy
2024-02-15 23:53 ` [PATCH v7 01/14] KVM: Clarify meaning of hva_to_pfn()'s 'atomic' parameter Anish Moorthy
2024-02-15 23:53 ` [PATCH v7 02/14] KVM: Add function comments for __kvm_read/write_guest_page() Anish Moorthy
2024-02-15 23:53 ` [PATCH v7 03/14] KVM: Documentation: Make note of the KVM_MEM_GUEST_MEMFD memslot flag Anish Moorthy
2024-04-09 22:47 ` Sean Christopherson [this message]
2024-02-15 23:53 ` [PATCH v7 04/14] KVM: Simplify error handling in __gfn_to_pfn_memslot() Anish Moorthy
2024-04-09 22:44 ` Sean Christopherson
2024-02-15 23:53 ` [PATCH v7 05/14] KVM: Define and communicate KVM_EXIT_MEMORY_FAULT RWX flags to userspace Anish Moorthy
2024-02-15 23:53 ` [PATCH v7 06/14] KVM: Add memslot flag to let userspace force an exit on missing hva mappings Anish Moorthy
2024-03-08 22:07 ` Sean Christopherson
2024-03-09 0:46 ` David Matlack
2024-03-11 4:45 ` Oliver Upton
2024-03-11 16:20 ` David Matlack
2024-07-03 17:34 ` Nikita Kalyazin
2024-07-03 20:11 ` David Matlack
2024-07-04 10:10 ` Nikita Kalyazin
2024-03-11 16:36 ` Sean Christopherson
2024-03-11 17:08 ` Anish Moorthy
2024-03-11 21:21 ` Oliver Upton
2024-02-15 23:53 ` [PATCH v7 07/14] KVM: x86: Enable KVM_CAP_EXIT_ON_MISSING and annotate EFAULTs from stage-2 fault handler Anish Moorthy
2024-02-15 23:53 ` [PATCH v7 08/14] KVM: arm64: Enable KVM_CAP_MEMORY_FAULT_INFO and annotate fault in the " Anish Moorthy
2024-03-04 20:00 ` Oliver Upton
2024-03-04 20:10 ` Oliver Upton
2024-03-04 20:32 ` Sean Christopherson
2024-03-04 21:03 ` Oliver Upton
2024-03-04 22:49 ` Sean Christopherson
2024-03-05 1:01 ` Oliver Upton
2024-03-05 15:39 ` Sean Christopherson
2024-02-15 23:54 ` [PATCH v7 09/14] KVM: arm64: Implement and advertise KVM_CAP_EXIT_ON_MISSING Anish Moorthy
2024-02-15 23:54 ` [PATCH v7 10/14] KVM: selftests: Report per-vcpu demand paging rate from demand paging test Anish Moorthy
2024-04-09 22:49 ` Sean Christopherson
2024-02-15 23:54 ` [PATCH v7 11/14] KVM: selftests: Allow many vCPUs and reader threads per UFFD in " Anish Moorthy
2024-04-09 22:58 ` Sean Christopherson
2024-02-15 23:54 ` [PATCH v7 12/14] KVM: selftests: Use EPOLL in userfaultfd_util reader threads and signal errors via TEST_ASSERT Anish Moorthy
2024-02-15 23:54 ` [PATCH v7 13/14] KVM: selftests: Add memslot_flags parameter to memstress_create_vm() Anish Moorthy
2024-02-15 23:54 ` [PATCH v7 14/14] KVM: selftests: Handle memory fault exits in demand_paging_test Anish Moorthy
2024-02-16 7:36 ` [PATCH v7 00/14] Improve KVM + userfaultfd performance via KVM_EXIT_MEMORY_FAULTs on stage-2 faults Gupta, Pankaj
2024-02-16 20:00 ` Anish Moorthy
2024-02-16 23:40 ` Axel Rasmussen
2024-02-21 7:35 ` Gupta, Pankaj
2024-04-10 0:19 ` Sean Christopherson
2024-05-07 17:38 ` Anish Moorthy
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