Re: [PATCH gmem FIXUP] kvm: guestmem: do not use a file system

[Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>]

On Wed, Oct 11, 2023, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Your patch 2 looks good, but perhaps instead of setting the owner we could
> stash the struct module* in a global, and try_get/put it from open and
> release respectively?  That is, .owner keeps the kvm module alive and the
> kvm module keeps kvm-intel/kvm-amd alive.  That would subsume patches 1 and 3.

I don't think that would be a net positive.  We'd have to implement .open() for
several file types just to get a reference to the sub-module.  At that point, the
odds of forgetting to implement .open() are about the same as forgetting to set
.owner when adding a new file type, e.g. guest_memfd.