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From: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
To: Fuad Tabba <tabba@google.com>, Patrick Roy <roypat@amazon.co.uk>
Cc: seanjc@google.com, pbonzini@redhat.com,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, dwmw@amazon.co.uk, rppt@kernel.org,
	tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, bp@alien8.de,
	dave.hansen@linux.intel.com, x86@kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com,
	willy@infradead.org, graf@amazon.com, derekmn@amazon.com,
	kalyazin@amazon.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	dmatlack@google.com, chao.p.peng@linux.intel.com,
	xmarcalx@amazon.co.uk
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 8/8] kvm: gmem: Allow restricted userspace mappings
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2024 23:13:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47ce1b10-e031-4ac1-b88f-9d4194533745@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+EHjTynVpsqsudSVRgOBdNSP_XjdgKQkY_LwdqvPkpJAnAYKg@mail.gmail.com>

On 09.07.24 16:48, Fuad Tabba wrote:
> Hi Patrick,
> 
> On Tue, Jul 9, 2024 at 2:21 PM Patrick Roy <roypat@amazon.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> Allow mapping guest_memfd into userspace. Since AS_INACCESSIBLE is set
>> on the underlying address_space struct, no GUP of guest_memfd will be
>> possible.
> 
> This patch allows mapping guest_memfd() unconditionally. Even if it's
> not guppable, there are other reasons why you wouldn't want to allow
> this. Maybe a config flag to gate it? e.g.,


As discussed with Jason, maybe not the direction we want to take with 
guest_memfd.
If it's private memory, it shall not be mapped. Also not via magic 
config options.

We'll likely discuss some of that in the meeting MM tomorrow I guess 
(having both shared and private memory in guest_memfd).

Note that just from staring at this commit, I don't understand the 
motivation *why* we would want to do that.

-- 
Cheers,

David / dhildenb



  reply	other threads:[~2024-07-09 21:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-07-09 13:20 [RFC PATCH 0/8] Unmapping guest_memfd from Direct Map Patrick Roy
2024-07-09 13:20 ` [RFC PATCH 1/8] kvm: Allow reading/writing gmem using kvm_{read,write}_guest Patrick Roy
2024-07-09 13:20 ` [RFC PATCH 2/8] kvm: use slowpath in gfn_to_hva_cache if memory is private Patrick Roy
2024-07-09 13:20 ` [RFC PATCH 3/8] kvm: pfncache: enlighten about gmem Patrick Roy
2024-07-09 14:36   ` David Woodhouse
2024-07-10  9:49     ` Patrick Roy
2024-07-10 10:20       ` David Woodhouse
2024-07-10 10:46         ` Patrick Roy
2024-07-10 10:50           ` David Woodhouse
2024-07-09 13:20 ` [RFC PATCH 4/8] kvm: x86: support walking guest page tables in gmem Patrick Roy
2024-07-09 13:20 ` [RFC PATCH 5/8] kvm: gmem: add option to remove guest private memory from direct map Patrick Roy
2024-07-10  7:31   ` Mike Rapoport
2024-07-10  9:50     ` Patrick Roy
2024-07-09 13:20 ` [RFC PATCH 6/8] kvm: gmem: Temporarily restore direct map entries when needed Patrick Roy
2024-07-11  6:25   ` Paolo Bonzini
2024-07-09 13:20 ` [RFC PATCH 7/8] mm: secretmem: use AS_INACCESSIBLE to prohibit GUP Patrick Roy
2024-07-09 21:09   ` David Hildenbrand
2024-07-10  7:32     ` Mike Rapoport
2024-07-10  9:50       ` Patrick Roy
2024-07-10 21:14         ` David Hildenbrand
2024-07-09 13:20 ` [RFC PATCH 8/8] kvm: gmem: Allow restricted userspace mappings Patrick Roy
2024-07-09 14:48   ` Fuad Tabba
2024-07-09 21:13     ` David Hildenbrand [this message]
2024-07-10  9:51       ` Patrick Roy
2024-07-10 21:12         ` David Hildenbrand
2024-07-10 21:53           ` Sean Christopherson
2024-07-10 21:56             ` David Hildenbrand
2024-07-12 15:59           ` Patrick Roy
2024-07-30 10:15             ` David Hildenbrand
2024-08-01 10:30               ` Patrick Roy
2024-07-22 12:28 ` [RFC PATCH 0/8] Unmapping guest_memfd from Direct Map Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
2024-07-26  6:55   ` Patrick Roy
2024-07-30 10:17     ` David Hildenbrand
2024-07-26 16:44 ` Yosry Ahmed

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