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From: Michael Roth <michael.roth@amd.com>
To: <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Cc: <kvm@vger.kernel.org>, <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	<berrange@redhat.com>, <armbru@redhat.com>,
	<pankaj.gupta@amd.com>, <isaku.yamahata@intel.com>,
	<xiaoyao.li@intel.com>, <chao.p.peng@linux.intel.com>,
	<david@kernel.org>, <ashish.kalra@amd.com>,
	<ackerleytng@google.com>, <lpieralisi@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH v2 07/19] accel/kvm: Add CGS option to control in-place conversion support
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2026 15:48:27 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260908205236.838281-8-michael.roth@amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260908205236.838281-1-michael.roth@amd.com>

For confidential guests, guest_memfd is currently used only for private
guest memory, and normal guest memory comes from the configured memory
backend just as it does for a non-confidential guest. It is now possible
to use the same physical memory to back a particular GPA regardless of
whether it is in a shared or private state. This avoids the need to
rely on discarding memory between shared/private conversions (to avoid
doubled memory usage), and is intended to be the primary mode of using
guest_memfd for confidential guests moving forward, and future features
like hugepage support will likely require it.

Add an option to enable this support. Since ConfidentialGuestSupport is
already used to track some guest_memfd-related functionality (e.g.
whether it is required for the configured machine), similarly introduce
this option as a property of ConfidentialGuestSupport.

Also add the KVM-specific checks to enable this support, but leave the
option disabled until other required changes are implemented for
CGS variants that intend to make use of KVM's in-place conversion
support.

While technically the convert-in-place option could be introduced as an
SEV-specific option, it is a given that TDX will also be introducing
in-place conversion support based on the same guest_memfd kernel
infrastructure, so introduce it via a new
ConfidentialGuestSupportProperties base class that other confidential VM
implementations can utilized for common options.

Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <michael.roth@amd.com>
---
 accel/kvm/kvm-all.c                         | 19 +++++++++++++++
 backends/confidential-guest-support.c       | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++
 hw/core/machine.c                           |  5 ++++
 include/hw/core/boards.h                    |  1 +
 include/system/confidential-guest-support.h | 14 +++++++++++
 qapi/qom.json                               | 16 +++++++++++++
 6 files changed, 81 insertions(+)

diff --git a/accel/kvm/kvm-all.c b/accel/kvm/kvm-all.c
index 15f237de4e..2b838eb690 100644
--- a/accel/kvm/kvm-all.c
+++ b/accel/kvm/kvm-all.c
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@
 #include "kvm-cpus.h"
 #include "system/dirtylimit.h"
 #include "qemu/range.h"
+#include "system/confidential-guest-support.h"
 
 #include "hw/core/boards.h"
 #include "system/stats.h"
@@ -3074,6 +3075,24 @@ static int kvm_init(AccelState *as, MachineState *ms)
     kvm_guest_memfd_flags_supported =
         kvm_vm_check_extension(s, KVM_CAP_GUEST_MEMFD_FLAGS);
 
+    if (machine_require_guest_memfd_convert_in_place(ms)) {
+        uint64_t guest_memfd_supported_memory_attributes;
+
+        guest_memfd_supported_memory_attributes =
+            kvm_vm_check_extension(s, KVM_CAP_GUEST_MEMFD_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES);
+
+        if (!(guest_memfd_supported_memory_attributes & KVM_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTE_PRIVATE)) {
+            ret = -EINVAL;
+            error_report("In-place conversion is only supported if private "
+                         "memory attributes can be set via guest_memfd. "
+                         "Please ensure the 'gmem_in_place_conversion' KVM "
+                         "module parameter is set to 0.");
+            goto err;
+        }
+
+        kvm_supported_memory_attributes = guest_memfd_supported_memory_attributes;
+    }
+
     if (s->kernel_irqchip_split == ON_OFF_AUTO_AUTO) {
         s->kernel_irqchip_split = mc->default_kernel_irqchip_split ? ON_OFF_AUTO_ON : ON_OFF_AUTO_OFF;
     }
diff --git a/backends/confidential-guest-support.c b/backends/confidential-guest-support.c
index 156dd15e66..29447fa18e 100644
--- a/backends/confidential-guest-support.c
+++ b/backends/confidential-guest-support.c
@@ -21,6 +21,25 @@ OBJECT_DEFINE_ABSTRACT_TYPE(ConfidentialGuestSupport,
                             CONFIDENTIAL_GUEST_SUPPORT,
                             OBJECT)
 
+static bool
+cgs_get_convert_in_place(Object *obj, Error **errp)
+{
+    return CONFIDENTIAL_GUEST_SUPPORT(obj)->convert_in_place;
+}
+
+static void
+cgs_set_convert_in_place(Object *obj, bool value, Error **errp)
+{
+    ConfidentialGuestSupport *cgs = CONFIDENTIAL_GUEST_SUPPORT(obj);
+
+    if (!cgs->allow_convert_in_place && value) {
+        error_setg(errp, "In-place conversion support is not supported for this guest configuration.");
+        return;
+    }
+
+    cgs->convert_in_place = value;
+}
+
 static bool check_support(ConfidentialGuestPlatformType platform,
                          uint16_t platform_version, uint8_t highest_vtl,
                          uint64_t shared_gpa_boundary)
@@ -70,6 +89,13 @@ static void confidential_guest_support_class_init(ObjectClass *oc,
 
 static void confidential_guest_support_init(Object *obj)
 {
+    ConfidentialGuestSupport *cgs = CONFIDENTIAL_GUEST_SUPPORT(obj);
+
+    object_property_add_bool(obj, "convert-in-place", cgs_get_convert_in_place,
+                             cgs_set_convert_in_place);
+
+    cgs->convert_in_place = false;
+    cgs->allow_convert_in_place = false;
 }
 
 static void confidential_guest_support_finalize(Object *obj)
diff --git a/hw/core/machine.c b/hw/core/machine.c
index 469033d6b3..5e66dbe193 100644
--- a/hw/core/machine.c
+++ b/hw/core/machine.c
@@ -1342,6 +1342,11 @@ bool machine_require_guest_memfd_private(MachineState *machine)
     return machine->cgs && machine->cgs->require_guest_memfd;
 }
 
+bool machine_require_guest_memfd_convert_in_place(MachineState *machine)
+{
+    return machine->cgs && machine->cgs->convert_in_place;
+}
+
 static char *cpu_slot_to_string(const CPUArchId *cpu)
 {
     GString *s = g_string_new(NULL);
diff --git a/include/hw/core/boards.h b/include/hw/core/boards.h
index 7925f0451a..5e67095f7c 100644
--- a/include/hw/core/boards.h
+++ b/include/hw/core/boards.h
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ int machine_phandle_start(MachineState *machine);
 bool machine_dump_guest_core(MachineState *machine);
 bool machine_mem_merge(MachineState *machine);
 bool machine_require_guest_memfd_private(MachineState *machine);
+bool machine_require_guest_memfd_convert_in_place(MachineState *machine);
 HotpluggableCPUList *machine_query_hotpluggable_cpus(MachineState *machine);
 void machine_set_cpu_numa_node(MachineState *machine,
                                const CpuInstanceProperties *props,
diff --git a/include/system/confidential-guest-support.h b/include/system/confidential-guest-support.h
index 5dca717308..c1e9c41ad2 100644
--- a/include/system/confidential-guest-support.h
+++ b/include/system/confidential-guest-support.h
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 
 #include "qom/object.h"
 #include "exec/hwaddr.h"
+#include "qapi/qapi-visit-qom.h"
 
 #define TYPE_CONFIDENTIAL_GUEST_SUPPORT "confidential-guest-support"
 OBJECT_DECLARE_TYPE(ConfidentialGuestSupport,
@@ -92,6 +93,19 @@ struct ConfidentialGuestSupport {
      * so 'ready' is not set, we'll abort.
      */
     bool ready;
+
+    /*
+     * True if the machine re-uses physical pages when converting
+     * between shared/private (as opposed to using different
+     * physical pages depending on the access type).
+     */
+    bool convert_in_place;
+
+    /*
+     * CGS implementations will use this to indicate whether or not
+     * in-place conversion can be enabled by users.
+     */
+    bool allow_convert_in_place;
 };
 
 typedef struct ConfidentialGuestSupportClass {
diff --git a/qapi/qom.json b/qapi/qom.json
index 909add4299..20d6fefb04 100644
--- a/qapi/qom.json
+++ b/qapi/qom.json
@@ -1005,6 +1005,21 @@
   'if': 'CONFIG_IGVM',
   'data': { 'file': 'str' } }
 
+##
+# @ConfidentialGuestSupportProperties:
+#
+# Properties for ConfidentialGuestSupport base class.
+#
+# @convert-in-place: If true, the same physical pages are reused
+#     when memory is converted between shared and private states.
+#     If false (default), separate allocations are used depending
+#     on whether the page is private or shared.
+#
+# Since: 11.2
+##
+{ 'struct': 'ConfidentialGuestSupportProperties',
+  'data': { '*convert-in-place': 'bool' } }
+
 ##
 # @SevCommonProperties:
 #
@@ -1033,6 +1048,7 @@
 # Since: 9.1
 ##
 { 'struct': 'SevCommonProperties',
+  'base': 'ConfidentialGuestSupportProperties',
   'data': { '*sev-device': 'str',
             '*cbitpos': 'uint32',
             'reduced-phys-bits': 'uint32',
-- 
2.43.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-09-08 20:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-08 20:48 [PATCH v2 00/19] guest_memfd: support in-place memory conversion Michael Roth
2026-09-08 20:48 ` [PATCH v2 01/19] accel/kvm: Add helper for handling conversions of MMIO holes Michael Roth
2026-09-08 20:48 ` [PATCH v2 02/19] accel/kvm: Fix kvm_convert_memory() calls crossing memory regions Michael Roth
2026-09-08 20:48 ` [PATCH v2 03/19] accel/kvm: Fix handling of MMIO holes at start of conversion ranges Michael Roth
2026-09-08 20:48 ` [PATCH v2 04/19] accel/kvm: Fix handling of conversion ranges with multiple MMIO holes Michael Roth
2026-09-08 20:48 ` [PATCH v2 05/19] accel/kvm: Use dedicated helper for creating private-only gmem instances Michael Roth
2026-09-08 20:48 ` [PATCH v2 06/19] linux-headers: Update headers for v12 of in-place conversion kernel support Michael Roth
2026-09-08 20:48 ` Michael Roth [this message]
2026-09-09  6:20   ` [PATCH v2 07/19] accel/kvm: Add CGS option to control in-place conversion support Markus Armbruster
2026-09-08 20:48 ` [PATCH v2 08/19] system/memory: Re-use memory-backend-guest-memfd inode for private memory Michael Roth
2026-09-10  8:39   ` David Hildenbrand
2026-09-08 20:48 ` [PATCH v2 09/19] accel/kvm: Handle guest_memfd flags internally when creating instances Michael Roth
2026-09-08 20:48 ` [PATCH v2 10/19] system/memory: Default to guest_memfd for RAM for in-place conversion Michael Roth
2026-09-08 20:48 ` [PATCH v2 11/19] accel/kvm: Move post-conversion updates to a separate helper Michael Roth
2026-09-08 20:48 ` [PATCH v2 12/19] accel/kvm: Re-order attribute notifications for in-place conversion Michael Roth
2026-09-08 20:48 ` [PATCH v2 13/19] accel/kvm: Support shared/private conversions via guest_memfd ioctls Michael Roth
2026-09-08 20:48 ` [PATCH v2 14/19] accel/kvm: Don't default to private attributes for in-place conversion Michael Roth
2026-09-08 20:48 ` [PATCH v2 15/19] i386/sev: Update SNP_LAUNCH_UPDATE " Michael Roth
2026-09-08 20:48 ` [PATCH v2 16/19] i386/sev: Allow in-place conversion for SEV-SNP guests Michael Roth
2026-09-08 20:48 ` [PATCH v2 17/19] i386/sev: Update CPUID failure handling for in-place conversion Michael Roth
2026-09-08 20:48 ` [PATCH v2 18/19] accel/kvm: Disable discard " Michael Roth
2026-09-08 22:16   ` Michael Roth
2026-09-08 20:48 ` [PATCH v2 19/19] hostmem: Automatically select set guest-memfd=on " Michael Roth
2026-09-09  6:30   ` Markus Armbruster

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