From: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
To: Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@intel.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
Fabiano Rosas <farosas@suse.de>,
Chenyi Qiang <chenyi.qiang@intel.com>,
David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@amd.com>,
Juraj Marcin <jmarcin@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/8] kvm: Detect guest-memfd flags supported
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2025 16:19:36 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aRZLaJZ8ZP5lU6Hy@x1.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aRZKhniIgG7HFaoq@x1.local>
On Thu, Nov 13, 2025 at 04:15:50PM -0500, Peter Xu wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2025 at 11:52:01AM +0800, Xiaoyao Li wrote:
> > > @@ -2781,6 +2782,11 @@ 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);
> > > + ret = kvm_vm_check_extension(s, KVM_CAP_GUEST_MEMFD_FLAGS);
> > > + if (ret > 0)
> > > + kvm_guest_memfd_flags_supported = (uint64_t)ret;
> > > + else
> > > + kvm_guest_memfd_flags_supported = 0;
> >
> > Nit:
> > 1. QEMU's coding style always requires curly braces.
> > 2. is the (uint64_t) necessary?
> > 3. can we name it "kvm_supported_guest_memfd_flags" to make it consistent
> > with "kvm_supported_memory_attributes"?
> >
> > so how about
> >
> > kvm_supported_guest_memfd_flags = kvm_vm_check_extension(s,
> > KVM_CAP_GUEST_MEMFD_FLAGS);
> > if (kvm_supported_guest_memfd_flags < 0) {
> > kvm_supported_guest_memfd_flags = 0;
> > }
>
> Yep this looks good, I'll use it, thanks.
About naming: note that we already have different styles (both below
variables introduced by your previous commits):
static uint64_t kvm_supported_memory_attributes;
static bool kvm_guest_memfd_supported;
I personally preferred kvm_guest_memfd* as prefix, so I kept it.
--
Peter Xu
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-11-13 21:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-10-23 18:59 [PATCH 0/8] KVM/hostmem: Support in-place guest-memfd as VM backends Peter Xu
2025-10-23 18:59 ` [PATCH 1/8] linux-headers: Update to v6.18-rc2 Peter Xu
2025-10-23 18:59 ` [PATCH 2/8] kvm: Allow kvm_guest_memfd_supported for non-private use case Peter Xu
2025-10-24 2:30 ` Xiaoyao Li
2025-11-13 21:05 ` Peter Xu
2025-11-13 21:08 ` Peter Xu
2025-11-19 14:40 ` Xiaoyao Li
2025-10-23 18:59 ` [PATCH 3/8] kvm: Detect guest-memfd flags supported Peter Xu
2025-10-24 3:52 ` Xiaoyao Li
2025-11-13 21:15 ` Peter Xu
2025-11-13 21:19 ` Peter Xu [this message]
2025-11-19 14:44 ` Xiaoyao Li
2025-10-23 18:59 ` [PATCH 4/8] memory: Rename RAM_GUEST_MEMFD to RAM_GUEST_MEMFD_PRIVATE Peter Xu
2025-10-24 9:17 ` Xiaoyao Li
2025-11-13 21:25 ` Peter Xu
2025-11-19 14:45 ` Xiaoyao Li
2025-10-23 18:59 ` [PATCH 5/8] memory: Rename memory_region_has_guest_memfd() to *_private() Peter Xu
2025-10-23 18:59 ` [PATCH 6/8] ramblock: Rename guest_memfd to guest_memfd_private Peter Xu
2025-10-23 18:59 ` [PATCH 7/8] hostmem: " Peter Xu
2025-10-23 18:59 ` [PATCH 8/8] hostmem: Support in-place guest memfd to back a VM Peter Xu
2025-10-24 9:01 ` Xiaoyao Li
2025-10-24 15:22 ` Peter Xu
2025-10-27 5:24 ` Xiaoyao Li
2025-11-13 21:53 ` Peter Xu
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