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Re: [RFC v2 PATCH 13/13] KVM: Enable memfd based page invalidation/fallo
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Chao Peng |
Subject: |
Re: [RFC v2 PATCH 13/13] KVM: Enable memfd based page invalidation/fallocate |
Date: |
Tue, 23 Nov 2021 09:06:39 +0800 |
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Mutt/1.9.4 (2018-02-28) |
On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 05:16:47PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 09:47:39PM +0800, Chao Peng wrote:
> > Since the memory backing store does not get notified when VM is
> > destroyed so need check if VM is still live in these callbacks.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Yu Zhang <yu.c.zhang@linux.intel.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Chao Peng <chao.p.peng@linux.intel.com>
> > ---
> > virt/kvm/memfd.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> > 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/virt/kvm/memfd.c b/virt/kvm/memfd.c
> > index bd930dcb455f..bcfdc685ce22 100644
> > --- a/virt/kvm/memfd.c
> > +++ b/virt/kvm/memfd.c
> > @@ -12,16 +12,38 @@
> > #include <linux/memfd.h>
> > const static struct guest_mem_ops *memfd_ops;
> >
> > +static bool vm_is_dead(struct kvm *vm)
> > +{
> > + struct kvm *kvm;
> > +
> > + list_for_each_entry(kvm, &vm_list, vm_list) {
> > + if (kvm == vm)
> > + return false;
> > + }
>
> I don't think this is enough. The struct kvm can be freed and re-allocated
> from the slab and this function will give false-negetive.
Right.
>
> Maybe the kvm has to be tagged with a sequential id that incremented every
> allocation. This id can be checked here.
Sounds like a sequential id will be needed, no existing fields in struct
kvm can work for this.
>
> > +
> > + return true;
> > +}
>
> --
> Kirill A. Shutemov
- Re: [RFC v2 PATCH 07/13] KVM: Handle page fault for fd based memslot, (continued)
- [RFC v2 PATCH 08/13] KVM: Rename hva memory invalidation code to cover fd-based offset, Chao Peng, 2021/11/19
- [RFC v2 PATCH 09/13] KVM: Introduce kvm_memfd_invalidate_range, Chao Peng, 2021/11/19
- [RFC v2 PATCH 10/13] KVM: Match inode for invalidation of fd-based slot, Chao Peng, 2021/11/19
- [RFC v2 PATCH 11/13] KVM: Add kvm_map_gfn_range, Chao Peng, 2021/11/19
- [RFC v2 PATCH 12/13] KVM: Introduce kvm_memfd_fallocate_range, Chao Peng, 2021/11/19
- [RFC v2 PATCH 13/13] KVM: Enable memfd based page invalidation/fallocate, Chao Peng, 2021/11/19
- Re: [RFC v2 PATCH 13/13] KVM: Enable memfd based page invalidation/fallocate, Paolo Bonzini, 2021/11/23