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Add support for resolving page faults on guest private memory for VMs that differentiate between "shared" and "private" memory. For such VMs, KVM_MEM_GUEST_MEMFD memslots can include both fd-based private memory and hva-based shared memory, and KVM needs to map in the "correct" variant, i.e. KVM needs to map the gfn shared/private as appropriate based on the current state of the gfn's KVM_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTE_PRIVATE flag. For AMD's SEV-SNP and Intel's TDX, the guest effectively gets to request shared vs. private via a bit in the guest page tables, i.e. what the guest wants may conflict with the current memory attributes. To support such "implicit" conversion requests, exit to user with KVM_EXIT_MEMORY_FAULT to forward the request to userspace. Add a new flag for memory faults, KVM_MEMORY_EXIT_FLAG_PRIVATE, to communicate whether the guest wants to map memory as shared vs. private. Like KVM_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTE_PRIVATE, use bit 3 for flagging private memory so that KVM can use bits 0-2 for capturing RWX behavior if/when userspace needs such information, e.g. a likely user of KVM_EXIT_MEMORY_FAULT is to exit on missing mappings when handling guest page fault VM-Exits. In that case, userspace will want to know RWX information in order to correctly/precisely resolve the fault. Note, private memory *must* be backed by guest_memfd, i.e. shared mappings always come from the host userspace page tables, and private mappings always come from a guest_memfd instance. Co-developed-by: Yu Zhang <yu.c.zhang@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Yu Zhang <yu.c.zhang@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Chao Peng <chao.p.peng@linux.intel.com> Co-developed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Reviewed-by: Fuad Tabba <tabba@google.com> Tested-by: Fuad Tabba <tabba@google.com> Message-Id: <20231027182217.3615211-21-seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.