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* [PATCH v3 0/9] KVM: guest_memfd: folio migration for non-confidential VMs
@ 2026-08-05  6:40 Shivank Garg
  2026-08-05  6:40 ` [PATCH v3 1/9] KVM: guest_memfd: take the invalidate lock when unbinding a dying file Shivank Garg
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From: Shivank Garg @ 2026-08-05  6:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle), Jan Kara, Andrew Morton, Vlastimil Babka,
	Suren Baghdasaryan, Michal Hocko, Brendan Jackman,
	Johannes Weiner, Zi Yan, David Hildenbrand, Matthew Brost,
	Joshua Hahn, Rakie Kim, Byungchul Park, Gregory Price, Ying Huang,
	Alistair Popple, Paolo Bonzini, Shuah Khan, Chao Peng,
	Nikunj A Dadhania, Michael Roth, Pankaj Gupta, Ackerley Tng,
	Sean Christopherson, Vishal Annapurve, Nikita Kalyazin,
	Patrick Roy, Pratik Sampat, Ashish Kalra, Thomas Gleixner,
	Ingo Molnar, Borislav Petkov, Dave Hansen, x86, H. Peter Anvin,
	Jonathan Corbet, Shuah Khan, Peter Shier, Jim Mattson,
	Ricardo Koller, Ira Weiny, Fuad Tabba
  Cc: linux-fsdevel, linux-coco, linux-mm, linux-kernel, kvm,
	linux-kselftest, linux-doc, Shivank Garg, Sashiko

guest_memfd folios are currently always marked unmovable, so the kernel cannot
perform memory compaction, offlining, etc. This is unavoidable for
confidential VMs (SEV-SNP, TDX), since memory is encrypted and copying it
needs firmware assistance. However, for non-confidential VMs (like
Firecracker), we can migrate the folios.

This series enables folio migration for non-confidential guest_memfd and
also lays the groundwork for migrating confidential guest_memfd later.
Once firmware-assisted copying support is available, those VMs can be
made movable, the confidential folio content can be copied separately,
and the destination folio marked with FOLIO_CONTENT_COPIED[4] so
__migrate_folio() skips the host-side folio_mc_copy().

Testing
-------
Host: 7.2-rc6+(c21bb419386) + this, AMD EPYC ZEN 3, 2 NUMA nodes

- KVM selftest: allocate folios on node 0, migrate them to node 1 and
  back and verify resulting NUMA node and the folio contents at each
  step.

- Firecracker [1]: booted a microVM backed by guest_memfd. While the
  guest was running, forced host-side migration of its folios via
  migratepages(8) and explicit move_pages(2) of guest_memfd
  pages. Verify with /proc/firecracker_pid/numa_maps.

Notes
-----
- Sashiko pointed out a pre-existing ABBA deadlock between
  kvm_gmem_error_folio() and truncation. It's being addressed separately
  by Hao Zhang. [2][3]

[1] https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/tree/feature/secret-hiding
    In builder.rs, add GUEST_MEMFD_FLAG_MIGRATABLE to bit-2 and pass it instead
    of GUEST_MEMFD_FLAG_NO_DIRECT_MAP to vm.create_guest_memfd().
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/ambEdSPjerZIVN0b@192.168.1.215/
[3] https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260611-shivank-gmem-migrate-v1-0-2d266bfc6f95%40amd.com
[4] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260630-shivank-batch-migrate-offload-v6-1-da95d7e8b8a2@amd.com

Signed-off-by: Shivank Garg <shivankg@amd.com>
---
Changes in v3:
- Fix unbalanced mmu_invalidate_in_progress count unbinding dying guest_memfd. (Sashiko)
- Fix maxnode handling in xapic_ipi_test selftest.
- Add GUEST_MEMFD_FLAG_MIGRATABLE documentation
- Replace open-coded sizeof() * 8 calculation with BITS_PER_TYPE()
- Add get_numa_mem_nodes() and use  MPOL_F_MEMS_ALLOWED for allowed NUMA ndoes
  instead of hardcoded NUMA node IDs. (Sashiko)
- Extend migration selftest to verify rejection without MIGRATABLE flag and
  move repeated checks into common helpers.
- Drop RFC tag.
- Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260728-shivank-gmem-migrate-v2-0-269ac1f84e2b@amd.com

Changes in v2:
- Make folio migration opt-in through GUEST_MEMFD_FLAG_MIGRATABLE,
  preserving unmovable behavior if userspace don't explictly ask. (Alexandru, David, Sean)
- Add kvm_arch_supports_gmem_migration() so arch can control whether
  GUEST_MEMFD_FLAG_MIGRATABLE is advertised.
- Allocate movable folios with GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE. (David)
- Keep guest_memfd unevictable. (David, Sashiko, Sean)
- Split migrate_folio() implementation and enablement as separate patches.
- Update selftest with new flag.
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260611-shivank-gmem-migrate-v1-0-2d266bfc6f95@amd.com

---
Shivank Garg (9):
      KVM: guest_memfd: take the invalidate lock when unbinding a dying file
      mm: split AS_UNMOVABLE back out of AS_INACCESSIBLE
      KVM: guest_memfd: implement folio migration for non-confidential VMs
      KVM: guest_memfd: add GUEST_MEMFD_FLAG_MIGRATABLE
      KVM: selftests: fix maxnode arguments in xapic_ipi_test
      KVM: selftests: use BITS_PER_TYPE() for NUMA masks
      KVM: selftests: add get_numa_mem_nodes()
      KVM: selftests: use allowed NUMA nodes in guest_memfd_test
      KVM: selftests: exercise guest_memfd folio migration

 Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst                   |   3 +
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c                               |   9 ++
 include/linux/kvm_host.h                         |   4 +
 include/linux/pagemap.h                          |  24 ++-
 include/uapi/linux/kvm.h                         |   1 +
 mm/compaction.c                                  |  12 +-
 mm/migrate.c                                     |   2 +-
 tools/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h                   |   1 +
 tools/testing/selftests/kvm/guest_memfd_test.c   | 193 +++++++++++++++++++----
 tools/testing/selftests/kvm/include/numaif.h     |  52 +-----
 tools/testing/selftests/kvm/x86/xapic_ipi_test.c |  14 +-
 virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c                           |  76 +++++++--
 12 files changed, 284 insertions(+), 107 deletions(-)
---
base-commit: c21bb4193868a8de71fc4693fa741e195fdf5d86
change-id: 20260611-shivank-gmem-migrate-8c1c519b30a6

Best regards,
-- 
Shivank Garg <shivankg@amd.com>


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