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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] mm: extend memfd with ability to create "secret" memory areas
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2020 19:52:47 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ab0a11ad5fde0cc71a725aac3ea81cc996e35bf1.camel@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200208173922.GA15879@hump>
On Sat, 2020-02-08 at 19:39 +0200, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> > Do we need to make kmap() work on these?
>
> I don't think we need to make kmap() work on these. The idea is to prevent
> kernel from accessing such memory areas.
For the VM use case, KVM does kmap() guest memory when emulating page table
operations in some cases:
arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h:FNAME(cmpxchg_gpte).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-11 19:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-30 16:23 [RFC PATCH] mm: extend memfd with ability to create "secret" memory areas Mike Rapoport
2020-02-06 18:51 ` Dave Hansen
[not found] ` <df5a888b-1a11-e806-741d-94684b22c966-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2020-02-08 17:39 ` Mike Rapoport
2020-02-10 8:06 ` Reshetova, Elena
2020-02-11 19:52 ` Edgecombe, Rick P [this message]
2020-02-12 21:10 ` Jonathan Corbet
2020-02-16 6:46 ` Mike Rapoport
2020-08-14 17:46 ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-08-14 18:09 ` Dave Hansen
2020-08-26 16:54 ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-08-26 19:01 ` Florian Weimer
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