[RFC PATCH 0/3] KVM: Dirty page logging for guest_memfd-only memslots

Sean Christopherson seanjc at google.com
Mon Jul 6 17:56:12 PDT 2026


On Thu, Jul 02, 2026, Alexandru Elisei wrote:
> The memory represented by guest_memfd-only memslots
> (kvm_memslot_is_gmem_only() is true) is shared with userspace, which can
> freely mmap it and access it. The only thing that is preventing dirty page
> logging for such memslots is that KVM doesn't allow slots backed by
> guest_memfd to have their flags changed; they can only be created and
> deleted.

Please (publicly) document *why*  you want to add dirty-logging support.  It's
all but impossible to review new uAPI without knowing the use case.



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