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From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	michael.roth@amd.com,  isaku.yamahata@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/11] KVM: guest_memfd: extract __kvm_gmem_get_pfn()
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2024 15:34:26 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZimI8j9LIUsAArdD@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240404185034.3184582-8-pbonzini@redhat.com>

On Thu, Apr 04, 2024, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> In preparation for adding a function that walks a set of pages
> provided by userspace and populates them in a guest_memfd,
> add a version of kvm_gmem_get_pfn() that has a "bool prepare"
> argument and passes it down to kvm_gmem_get_folio().
> 
> Populating guest memory has to call repeatedly __kvm_gmem_get_pfn()
> on the same file, so make the new function take struct file*.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> ---
>  virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c | 38 +++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
>  1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c b/virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c
> index 486748e65f36..a537a7e63ab5 100644
> --- a/virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c
> +++ b/virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c
> @@ -540,33 +540,29 @@ void kvm_gmem_unbind(struct kvm_memory_slot *slot)
>  	fput(file);
>  }
>  
> -int kvm_gmem_get_pfn(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_memory_slot *slot,
> -		     gfn_t gfn, kvm_pfn_t *pfn, int *max_order)
> +static int __kvm_gmem_get_pfn(struct file *file, struct kvm_memory_slot *slot,
> +		       gfn_t gfn, kvm_pfn_t *pfn, int *max_order, bool prepare)

I genuinely don't know what it means to "prepare" a guest_memfd.  I see it becomes

	if (!prepare)
		fgp_flags |= FGP_CREAT_ONLY;

but I find the name "prepare" to be extremely unhelpful.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-04-24 22:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-04-04 18:50 [PATCH 00/11] KVM: guest_memfd: New hooks and functionality for SEV-SNP and TDX Paolo Bonzini
2024-04-04 18:50 ` [PATCH 01/11] mm: Introduce AS_INACCESSIBLE for encrypted/confidential memory Paolo Bonzini
2024-04-29 13:14   ` Vlastimil Babka
2024-04-04 18:50 ` [PATCH 02/11] KVM: guest_memfd: Use AS_INACCESSIBLE when creating guest_memfd inode Paolo Bonzini
2024-04-29 13:15   ` Vlastimil Babka
2024-04-04 18:50 ` [PATCH 03/11] KVM: guest_memfd: pass error up from filemap_grab_folio Paolo Bonzini
2024-04-04 18:50 ` [PATCH 04/11] filemap: add FGP_CREAT_ONLY Paolo Bonzini
2024-04-25  5:52   ` Paolo Bonzini
2024-04-29 13:26     ` Vlastimil Babka
2024-04-04 18:50 ` [PATCH 05/11] KVM: guest_memfd: limit overzealous WARN Paolo Bonzini
2024-04-04 18:50 ` [PATCH 06/11] KVM: guest_memfd: Add hook for initializing memory Paolo Bonzini
2024-04-22 10:53   ` Xu Yilun
2024-05-07 16:17     ` Paolo Bonzini
2024-04-04 18:50 ` [PATCH 07/11] KVM: guest_memfd: extract __kvm_gmem_get_pfn() Paolo Bonzini
2024-04-09 23:35   ` Michael Roth
2024-04-24 22:34   ` Sean Christopherson [this message]
2024-04-24 22:59     ` Sean Christopherson
2024-04-04 18:50 ` [PATCH 08/11] KVM: guest_memfd: extract __kvm_gmem_punch_hole() Paolo Bonzini
2024-04-04 18:50 ` [PATCH 09/11] KVM: guest_memfd: Add interface for populating gmem pages with user data Paolo Bonzini
2024-04-22 14:44   ` Xu Yilun
2024-04-23 23:50   ` Isaku Yamahata
2024-04-24 22:24     ` Sean Christopherson
2024-04-25  1:12       ` Isaku Yamahata
2024-04-25  6:01         ` Paolo Bonzini
2024-04-25 16:00           ` Sean Christopherson
2024-04-25 16:51             ` Isaku Yamahata
2024-04-26  5:44               ` Paolo Bonzini
2024-04-26 17:15                 ` Isaku Yamahata
2024-04-26  5:41             ` Paolo Bonzini
2024-04-26 15:17               ` Sean Christopherson
2024-04-24 22:32   ` Sean Christopherson
2024-04-25  5:56     ` Paolo Bonzini
2024-04-04 18:50 ` [PATCH 10/11] KVM: guest_memfd: Add hook for invalidating memory Paolo Bonzini
2024-04-04 18:50 ` [PATCH 11/11] KVM: x86: Add gmem hook for determining max NPT mapping level Paolo Bonzini
2024-04-09 23:46   ` Michael Roth
2024-04-19 18:26     ` Isaku Yamahata
2024-04-22 14:52   ` Xu Yilun

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