[POC PATCH 1/6] KVM: selftests: Initialize guest_memfd with INIT_SHARED

Ackerley Tng
2026-03-26T23:37:01Z

Initialize guest_memfd with INIT_SHARED for VM types that require
guest_memfd.

Memory in the first memslot is used by the selftest framework to load
code, page tables, interrupt descriptor tables, and basically everything
the selftest needs to run. The selftest framework sets all of these up
assuming that the memory in the memslot can be written to from the
host. Align with that behavior by initializing guest_memfd as shared so
that all the writes from the host are permitted.

guest_memfd memory can later be marked private if necessary by CoCo
platform-specific initialization functions.

Suggested-by: Sagi Shahar <sagis@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ackerley Tng <ackerleytng@google.com>
---
tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/kvm_util.c | 12 +++++++++++-
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/kvm_util.c b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/kvm_util.c
index eaa5a1afa1d9b..68241e458807a 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/kvm_util.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/kvm_util.c
@@ -483,8 +483,10 @@ struct kvm_vm *__vm_create(struct vm_shape shape, uint32_t nr_runnable_vcpus,
{
uint64_t nr_pages = vm_nr_pages_required(shape.mode, nr_runnable_vcpus,
nr_extra_pages);
+ enum vm_mem_backing_src_type src_type;
struct userspace_mem_region *slot0;
struct kvm_vm *vm;
+ u64 gmem_flags;
int i, flags;

kvm_set_files_rlimit(nr_runnable_vcpus);
@@ -502,7 +504,15 @@ struct kvm_vm *__vm_create(struct vm_shape shape, uint32_t nr_runnable_vcpus,
if (is_guest_memfd_required(shape))
flags |= KVM_MEM_GUEST_MEMFD;

- vm_userspace_mem_region_add(vm, VM_MEM_SRC_ANONYMOUS, 0, 0, nr_pages, flags);
+ gmem_flags = 0;
+ src_type = VM_MEM_SRC_ANONYMOUS;
+ if (is_guest_memfd_required(shape) && kvm_has_gmem_attributes) {
+ src_type = VM_MEM_SRC_SHMEM;
+ gmem_flags = GUEST_MEMFD_FLAG_MMAP | GUEST_MEMFD_FLAG_INIT_SHARED;
+ }
+
+ vm_mem_add(vm, src_type, 0, 0, nr_pages, flags, -1, 0, gmem_flags);
+
for (i = 0; i < NR_MEM_REGIONS; i++)
vm->memslots[i] = 0;

--
2.53.0.1018.g2bb0e51243-goog