[PATCH 1/6] KVM: Document KVM_PRE_FAULT_MEMORY ioctl

Paolo Bonzini
2024-04-19T08:59:31Z

From: Isaku Yamahata <isaku.yamahata@intel.com>

Adds documentation of KVM_PRE_FAULT_MEMORY ioctl. [1]

It populates guest memory. It doesn't do extra operations on the
underlying technology-specific initialization [2]. For example,
CoCo-related operations won't be performed. Concretely for TDX, this API
won't invoke TDH.MEM.PAGE.ADD() or TDH.MR.EXTEND(). Vendor-specific APIs
are required for such operations.

The key point is to adapt of vcpu ioctl instead of VM ioctl. First,
populating guest memory requires vcpu. If it is VM ioctl, we need to pick
one vcpu somehow. Secondly, vcpu ioctl allows each vcpu to invoke this
ioctl in parallel. It helps to scale regarding guest memory size, e.g.,
hundreds of GB.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/Zbrj5WKVgMsUFDtb@google.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/Ze-TJh0BBOWm9spT@google.com/

Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Isaku Yamahata <isaku.yamahata@intel.com>
Message-ID: <9a060293c9ad9a78f1d8994cfe1311e818e99257.1712785629.git.isaku.yamahata@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
---
Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 50 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst
index f0b76ff5030d..bbcaa5d2b54b 100644
--- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst
+++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst
@@ -6352,6 +6352,56 @@ a single guest_memfd file, but the bound ranges must not overlap).

See KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION2 for additional details.

+4.143 KVM_PRE_FAULT_MEMORY
+------------------------
+
+:Capability: KVM_CAP_PRE_FAULT_MEMORY
+:Architectures: none
+:Type: vcpu ioctl
+:Parameters: struct kvm_pre_fault_memory (in/out)
+:Returns: 0 on success, < 0 on error
+
+Errors:
+
+ ========== ===============================================================
+ EINVAL The specified `gpa` and `size` were invalid (e.g. not
+ page aligned).
+ ENOENT The specified `gpa` is outside defined memslots.
+ EINTR An unmasked signal is pending and no page was processed.
+ EFAULT The parameter address was invalid.
+ EOPNOTSUPP Mapping memory for a GPA is unsupported by the
+ hypervisor, and/or for the current vCPU state/mode.
+ ========== ===============================================================
+
+::
+
+ struct kvm_pre_fault_memory {
+ /* in/out */
+ __u64 gpa;
+ __u64 size;
+ /* in */
+ __u64 flags;
+ __u64 padding[5];
+ };
+
+KVM_PRE_FAULT_MEMORY populates KVM's stage-2 page tables used to map memory
+for the current vCPU state. KVM maps memory as if the vCPU generated a
+stage-2 read page fault, e.g. faults in memory as needed, but doesn't break
+CoW. However, KVM does not mark any newly created stage-2 PTE as Accessed.
+
+In some cases, multiple vCPUs might share the page tables. In this
+case, the ioctl can be called in parallel.
+
+Shadow page tables cannot support this ioctl because they
+are indexed by virtual address or nested guest physical address.
+Calling this ioctl when the guest is using shadow page tables (for
+example because it is running a nested guest with nested page tables)
+will fail with `EOPNOTSUPP` even if `KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION` reports
+the capability to be present.
+
+`flags` must currently be zero.
+
+
5. The kvm_run structure
========================

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