Re: [RFC v2 PATCH 01/13] mm/shmem: Introduce F_SEAL_GUEST

David Hildenbrand
2021-11-23T15:20:13Z

On 23.11.21 10:06, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 11/19/21 16:39, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>>> If qmeu can put all the guest memory in a memfd and not map it, then
>>> I'd also like to see that the IOMMU can use this interface too so we
>>> can have VFIO working in this configuration.
>>
>> In QEMU we usually want to (and must) be able to access guest memory
>> from user space, with the current design we wouldn't even be able to
>> temporarily mmap it -- which makes sense for encrypted memory only. The
>> corner case really is encrypted memory. So I don't think we'll see a
>> broad use of this feature outside of encrypted VMs in QEMU. I might be
>> wrong, most probably I am:)
>
> It's not _that_ crazy an idea, but it's going to be some work to teach
> KVM that it has to kmap/kunmap around all memory accesses.

I'm also concerned about userspace access. But you sound like you have a
plan :)

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Thanks,

David / dhildenb