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From: Michael Roth <michael.roth@amd.com>
To: <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Cc: <pbonzini@redhat.com>, <berrange@redhat.com>, <armbru@redhat.com>,
	<pankaj.gupta@amd.com>, <isaku.yamahata@intel.com>,
	<xiaoyao.li@intel.com>, <chao.p.peng@linux.intel.com>,
	<david@kernel.org>, Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>,
	Fabiano Rosas <farosas@suse.de>
Subject: [PATCH v5 01/12] kvm: Decouple memory attribute check from kvm_guest_memfd_supported
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2026 08:30:51 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260908133151.836685-2-michael.roth@amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260908133151.836685-1-michael.roth@amd.com>

From: Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@intel.com>

With the mmap support of guest memfd, KVM allows userspace to create
guest memfd serving as normal non-private memory for X86 DEFAULT VM.
However, KVM doesn't support private memory attribute for X86 DEFAULT
VM.

Make kvm_guest_memfd_supported not rely on KVM_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTE_PRIVATE
and check KVM_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTE_PRIVATE separately when the machine
requires guest_memfd to serve as private memory.

This allows QEMU to create guest memfd with mmap to serve as the memory
backend for X86 DEFAULT VM.

Signed-off-by: Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Fabiano Rosas <farosas@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Michael Roth <michael.roth@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <michael.roth@amd.com>
---
 accel/kvm/kvm-all.c    | 8 ++++++--
 accel/stubs/kvm-stub.c | 5 +++++
 include/system/kvm.h   | 1 +
 system/physmem.c       | 8 ++++++++
 4 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/accel/kvm/kvm-all.c b/accel/kvm/kvm-all.c
index 83cbd120a8..cdc7554082 100644
--- a/accel/kvm/kvm-all.c
+++ b/accel/kvm/kvm-all.c
@@ -1627,6 +1627,11 @@ int kvm_set_memory_attributes_shared(hwaddr start, uint64_t size)
     return kvm_set_memory_attributes(start, size, 0);
 }
 
+bool kvm_private_memory_attribute_supported(void)
+{
+    return !!(kvm_supported_memory_attributes & KVM_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTE_PRIVATE);
+}
+
 /* Called with KVMMemoryListener.slots_lock held */
 static void kvm_set_phys_mem(KVMMemoryListener *kml,
                              MemoryRegionSection *section, bool add)
@@ -3058,8 +3063,7 @@ static int kvm_init(AccelState *as, MachineState *ms)
     kvm_supported_memory_attributes = kvm_vm_check_extension(s, KVM_CAP_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES);
     kvm_guest_memfd_supported =
         kvm_vm_check_extension(s, KVM_CAP_GUEST_MEMFD) &&
-        kvm_vm_check_extension(s, KVM_CAP_USER_MEMORY2) &&
-        (kvm_supported_memory_attributes & KVM_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTE_PRIVATE);
+        kvm_vm_check_extension(s, KVM_CAP_USER_MEMORY2);
     kvm_pre_fault_memory_supported = kvm_vm_check_extension(s, KVM_CAP_PRE_FAULT_MEMORY);
 
     if (s->kernel_irqchip_split == ON_OFF_AUTO_AUTO) {
diff --git a/accel/stubs/kvm-stub.c b/accel/stubs/kvm-stub.c
index 32b4b07403..3d34e3b99d 100644
--- a/accel/stubs/kvm-stub.c
+++ b/accel/stubs/kvm-stub.c
@@ -143,3 +143,8 @@ int kvm_create_guest_memfd(uint64_t size, uint64_t flags, Error **errp)
 {
     return -ENOSYS;
 }
+
+bool kvm_private_memory_attribute_supported(void)
+{
+    return false;
+}
diff --git a/include/system/kvm.h b/include/system/kvm.h
index 714b8c7b01..d29624034c 100644
--- a/include/system/kvm.h
+++ b/include/system/kvm.h
@@ -551,6 +551,7 @@ int kvm_create_guest_memfd(uint64_t size, uint64_t flags, Error **errp);
 
 int kvm_set_memory_attributes_private(hwaddr start, uint64_t size);
 int kvm_set_memory_attributes_shared(hwaddr start, uint64_t size);
+bool kvm_private_memory_attribute_supported(void);
 
 int kvm_convert_memory(hwaddr start, hwaddr size, bool to_private);
 
diff --git a/system/physmem.c b/system/physmem.c
index a4a6a4710c..b665cd3c33 100644
--- a/system/physmem.c
+++ b/system/physmem.c
@@ -2190,6 +2190,14 @@ static void ram_block_add(RAMBlock *new_block, Error **errp)
                        object_get_typename(OBJECT(current_machine->cgs)));
             goto out_free;
         }
+
+        if (!kvm_private_memory_attribute_supported()) {
+            error_setg(errp, "cannot set up private guest memory for %s: "
+                       "KVM does not support private memory attribute",
+                       object_get_typename(OBJECT(current_machine->cgs)));
+            goto out_free;
+        }
+
         assert(new_block->guest_memfd < 0);
 
         ret = ram_block_coordinated_discard_require(true);
-- 
2.43.0



  reply	other threads:[~2026-09-08 13:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-08 13:30 [PATCH v5 00/12] KVM/hostmem: Support init-shared guest-memfd as VM backends Michael Roth
2026-09-08 13:30 ` Michael Roth [this message]
2026-09-10  8:47   ` [PATCH v5 01/12] kvm: Decouple memory attribute check from kvm_guest_memfd_supported David Hildenbrand
2026-09-08 13:30 ` [PATCH v5 02/12] kvm: Detect guest-memfd flags supported Michael Roth
2026-09-08 13:30 ` [PATCH v5 03/12] kvm: Provide explicit error for kvm_create_guest_memfd() Michael Roth
2026-09-10  8:48   ` David Hildenbrand
2026-09-08 13:30 ` [PATCH v5 04/12] ramblock: Rename guest_memfd to guest_memfd_private Michael Roth
2026-09-10  8:49   ` David Hildenbrand
2026-09-08 13:30 ` [PATCH v5 05/12] memory: Rename RAM_GUEST_MEMFD to RAM_GUEST_MEMFD_PRIVATE Michael Roth
2026-09-10  8:50   ` David Hildenbrand
2026-09-08 13:30 ` [PATCH v5 06/12] memory: Rename memory_region_has_guest_memfd() to *_private() Michael Roth
2026-09-10  8:50   ` David Hildenbrand
2026-09-08 13:30 ` [PATCH v5 07/12] hostmem: Rename guest_memfd to guest_memfd_private Michael Roth
2026-09-10  8:51   ` David Hildenbrand
2026-09-08 13:30 ` [PATCH v5 08/12] hostmem: Support fully shared guest memfd to back a VM Michael Roth
2026-09-08 14:03   ` Markus Armbruster
2026-09-10 22:58     ` Michael Roth
2026-09-11  5:56       ` Markus Armbruster
2026-09-11 19:22         ` Michael Roth
2026-09-10  8:54   ` David Hildenbrand
2026-09-10 23:00     ` Michael Roth
2026-09-11 12:06       ` Peter Xu
2026-09-11 16:00         ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-14 12:59           ` Peter Xu
2026-09-15 15:02             ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-08 13:30 ` [PATCH v5 09/12] machine: Rename machine_require_guest_memfd() to *_private() Michael Roth
2026-09-10  8:55   ` David Hildenbrand
2026-09-10 23:08     ` Michael Roth
2026-09-11 10:48       ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-11 19:27         ` Michael Roth
2026-09-08 13:31 ` [PATCH v5 10/12] memory: Rename memory_region_init_ram_guest_memfd() " Michael Roth
2026-09-10  8:56   ` David Hildenbrand
2026-09-08 13:31 ` [PATCH v5 11/12] tests/migration-test: Support guest-memfd init shared mem type Michael Roth
2026-09-08 13:31 ` [PATCH v5 12/12] tests/migration-test: Add a precopy test for guest-memfd Michael Roth
2026-09-10  8:45 ` [PATCH v5 00/12] KVM/hostmem: Support init-shared guest-memfd as VM backends David Hildenbrand

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