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[99.254.114.190]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 41be03b00d2f7-a9bdd30e9adsm444712a12.62.2025.01.16.12.32.09 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Thu, 16 Jan 2025 12:32:11 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 15:32:06 -0500 From: Peter Xu To: James Houghton Cc: Paolo Bonzini , Sean Christopherson , Jonathan Corbet , Marc Zyngier , Oliver Upton , Yan Zhao , Nikita Kalyazin , Anish Moorthy , Peter Gonda , David Matlack , Wei W , kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, kvmarm@lists.linux.dev Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 00/13] KVM: Introduce KVM Userfault Message-ID: References: <20241204191349.1730936-1-jthoughton@google.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: On Thu, Jan 16, 2025 at 03:19:49PM -0500, Peter Xu wrote: > James, > > Sorry for a late reply. > > I still do have one or two pure questions, but nothing directly relevant to > your series. > > On Thu, Jan 02, 2025 at 12:53:11PM -0500, James Houghton wrote: > > So I'm not pushing for KVM Userfault to replace userfaultfd; it's not > > worth the extra/duplicated complexity. And at LPC, Paolo and Sean > > indicated that this direction was indeed wrong. I have another way to > > make this work in mind. :) > > Do you still want to share it, more or less? :) > > > > > For the gmem case, userfaultfd cannot be used, so KVM Userfault isn't > > replacing it. And as of right now anyway, KVM Userfault *does* provide > > a complete post-copy system for gmem. > > > > When gmem pages can be mapped into userspace, for post-copy to remain > > functional, userspace-mapped gmem will need userfaultfd integration. > > Keep in mind that even after this integration happens, userfaultfd > > alone will *not* be a complete post-copy solution, as vCPU faults > > won't be resolved via the userspace page tables. > > Do you know in context of CoCo, whether a private page can be accessed at > all outside of KVM? > > I think I'm pretty sure now a private page can never be mapped to > userspace. However, can another module like vhost-kernel access it during > postcopy? My impression of that is still a yes, but then how about > vhost-user? > > Here, the "vhost-kernel" part represents a question on whether private > pages can be accessed at all outside KVM. While "vhost-user" part > represents a question on whether, if the previous vhost-kernel question > answers as "yes it can", such access attempt can happen in another > process/task (hence, not only does it lack KVM context, but also not > sharing the same task context). Right after I sent it, I just recalled whenever a device needs to access the page, it needs to be converted to shared pages first.. So I suppose the questions were not valid at all! It is not about the context but that the pages will be shared always whenever a device in whatever form will access it.. Fundamentally I'm thinking about whether userfaultfd must support (fd, offset) tuple. Now I suppose it's not, because vCPUs accessing private/shared will all exit to userspace, while all non-vCPU / devices can access shared pages only. In that case, looks like userfaultfd can support CoCo on device emulations by sticking with virtual-address traps like before, at least from that specific POV. -- Peter Xu