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charset="us-ascii" On Fri, Oct 24, 2025, Ackerley Tng wrote: > Sean Christopherson writes: > > @@ -486,6 +488,7 @@ struct kvm_vm *__vm_create(struct vm_shape shape, uint32_t nr_runnable_vcpus, > > } > > guest_rng = new_guest_random_state(guest_random_seed); > > sync_global_to_guest(vm, guest_rng); > > + sync_global_to_guest(vm, kvm_has_gmem_attributes); > > I ported this [1] except for syncing this value to the guest, because I > think the guest shouldn't need to know this information, KVM selftests are about practically and testing, what information should or shouldn't be available to a test from e.g. a safety perspective is completely irrelevant. In fact, one of the biggest advantages of selftests over KUT is that the guest side can know _exactly_ what's going on in the host. See the usage in 1850e3da4b03 ("KVM: selftests: Update private_mem_conversions_test to mmap() guest_memfd") from: https://github.com/sean-jc/linux.git x86/gmem_inplace > the host should decide what to do. I think, if the guests really need to know > this, the test itself can do the syncing. Why force tests to do extra work, and potentially introduce subtle bugs due to state being stale?