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I can see that from the patch. >> >> This changelog is way, way, waaay too light on details. Sorry for jumping in at >> the 11th hour, but we've spent what, 2 years working on this? >> >>> Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan >>> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand >>> Co-developed-by: Ackerley Tng >>> Signed-off-by: Ackerley Tng >>> Signed-off-by: Fuad Tabba >>> --- >>> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h b/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h >>> index d00b85cb168c..cb19150fd595 100644 >>> --- a/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h >>> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h >>> @@ -1570,6 +1570,7 @@ struct kvm_memory_attributes { >>> #define KVM_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTE_PRIVATE (1ULL << 3) >>> >>> #define KVM_CREATE_GUEST_MEMFD _IOWR(KVMIO, 0xd4, struct kvm_create_guest_memfd) >>> +#define GUEST_MEMFD_FLAG_SUPPORT_SHARED (1ULL << 0) >> >> I find the SUPPORT_SHARED terminology to be super confusing. I had to dig quite >> deep to undesrtand that "support shared" actually mean "userspace explicitly >> enable sharing on _this_ guest_memfd instance". E.g. I was surprised to see >> >> IMO, GUEST_MEMFD_FLAG_SHAREABLE would be more appropriate. But even that is >> weird to me. For non-CoCo VMs, there is no concept of shared vs. private. What's >> novel and notable is that the memory is _mappable_. Yeah, yeah, pKVM's use case >> is to share memory, but that's a _use case_, not the property of guest_memfd that >> is being controlled by userspace. >> >> And kvm_gmem_memslot_supports_shared() is even worse. It's simply that the >> memslot is bound to a mappable guest_memfd instance, it's that the guest_memfd >> instance is the _only_ entry point to the memslot. >> >> So my vote would be "GUEST_MEMFD_FLAG_MAPPABLE", and then something like > > If we are going to change this; FLAG_MAPPABLE is not clear to me either. > The guest can map private memory, right? I see your point about shared > being overloaded with file shared but it would not be the first time a > term is overloaded. kvm_slot_has_gmem() does makes a lot of sense. > > If it is going to change; how about GUEST_MEMFD_FLAG_USER_MAPPABLE? If "shared" is not good enough terminology ... ... can we please just find a way to name what this "non-private" memory is called? That something is mappable into $whatever is not the right way to look at this IMHO. As raised in the past, we can easily support read()/write()/etc to this non-private memory. I'll note, the "non-private" memory in guest-memfd behaves just like ... the "shared" memory in shmem ... well, or like other memory in memfd. (which is based on mm/shmem.c). "Private" is also not the best way to describe the "protected\encrypted" memory, but that ship has sailed with KVM_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTE_PRIVATE. I'll further note that in the doc of KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION2 we talk about "private" vs "shared" memory ... so that would have to be improved as well. -- Cheers, David / dhildenb