[RFC PATCH v11 08/29] KVM: Introduce per-page memory attributes
Xiaoyao Li
xiaoyao.li at intel.com
Fri Jul 21 08:56:36 PDT 2023
On 7/19/2023 7:44 AM, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> +4.140 KVM_SET_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES
> +-----------------------------------------
> +
> +:Capability: KVM_CAP_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES
> +:Architectures: x86
> +:Type: vm ioctl
> +:Parameters: struct kvm_memory_attributes(in/out)
> +:Returns: 0 on success, <0 on error
> +
> +Sets memory attributes for pages in a guest memory range. Parameters are
> +specified via the following structure::
> +
> + struct kvm_memory_attributes {
> + __u64 address;
> + __u64 size;
> + __u64 attributes;
> + __u64 flags;
> + };
> +
> +The user sets the per-page memory attributes to a guest memory range indicated
> +by address/size, and in return KVM adjusts address and size to reflect the
> +actual pages of the memory range have been successfully set to the attributes.
> +If the call returns 0, "address" is updated to the last successful address + 1
> +and "size" is updated to the remaining address size that has not been set
> +successfully. The user should check the return value as well as the size to
> +decide if the operation succeeded for the whole range or not. The user may want
> +to retry the operation with the returned address/size if the previous range was
> +partially successful.
This does not match with the implementation. Please fix either one to
make them consistent.
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