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

Ackerley Tng
2026-04-28T23:33:31Z

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 216d6e037153c..3811aef8c98cd 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, u32 nr_runnable_vcpus,
{
u64 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, u32 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;

--
2.54.0.545.g6539524ca2-goog