[PATCH v17 24/24] KVM: selftests: Add guest_memfd testcase to fault-in on !mmap()'d memory

[Sean Christopherson]

On Tue, May 12, 2026, Zenghui Yu wrote:
> Hi Sean,
> 
> On 2026/4/18 0:47, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > 
> > Does this fix things for you?  If so, I'll send a proper patch.
> > 
> > diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/guest_memfd_test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/guest_memfd_test.c
> > index ec7644aae999..c682bda722f9 100644
> > --- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/guest_memfd_test.c
> > +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/guest_memfd_test.c
> > @@ -510,9 +510,15 @@ static void test_guest_memfd_guest(void)
> >                     "Default VM type should support INIT_SHARED, supported flags = 0x%x",
> >                     vm_check_cap(vm, KVM_CAP_GUEST_MEMFD_FLAGS));
> >  
> > +       /*
> > +        * Use the guest's page size for all accesses, e.g. to avoid having to
> > +        * map multiple pages, but create the guest_memfd instance with the max
> > +        * of the host or guest page size, as KVM requires gmem files to be
> > +        * aligned to the host page size.
> > +        */
> >         size = vm->page_size;
> > -       fd = vm_create_guest_memfd(vm, size, GUEST_MEMFD_FLAG_MMAP |
> > -                                            GUEST_MEMFD_FLAG_INIT_SHARED);
> > +       fd = vm_create_guest_memfd(vm, max(size, page_size), GUEST_MEMFD_FLAG_MMAP |
> > +                                                            GUEST_MEMFD_FLAG_INIT_SHARED);
> >         vm_set_user_memory_region2(vm, slot, KVM_MEM_GUEST_MEMFD, gpa, size, NULL, fd, 0);
> >  
> >         mem = kvm_mmap(size, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, fd);
> 
> This results in another failure at
> 
> |	vm_set_user_memory_region2(vm, slot, KVM_MEM_GUEST_MEMFD, gpa, size,
> NULL, fd, 0);

Gah, the memslot size also needs to be a multiple of the host page size.  I
actually tested on a CONFIG_ARM64_64K_PAGES=y kernel this time, patch incoming...

Thanks!