[RFC PATCH v11 12/29] KVM: Add KVM_CREATE_GUEST_MEMFD ioctl() for guest-specific backing memory
Elliot Berman
quic_eberman at quicinc.com
Wed Jul 26 10:18:37 PDT 2023
On 7/18/2023 4:44 PM, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> TODO
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> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/magic.h b/include/uapi/linux/magic.h
> index 6325d1d0e90f..15041aa7d9ae 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/magic.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/magic.h
> @@ -101,5 +101,6 @@
> #define DMA_BUF_MAGIC 0x444d4142 /* "DMAB" */
> #define DEVMEM_MAGIC 0x454d444d /* "DMEM" */
> #define SECRETMEM_MAGIC 0x5345434d /* "SECM" */
> +#define GUEST_MEMORY_MAGIC 0x474d454d /* "GMEM" */
Should this be:
#define GUEST_MEMORY_KVM_MAGIC
or KVM_GUEST_MEMORY_KVM_MAGIC?
BALLOON_KVM_MAGIC is KVM-specific few lines above.
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Originally, I was planning to use the generic guest memfd infrastructure
to support Gunyah hypervisor, however I see that's probably not going to
be possible now that the guest memfd implementation is KVM-specific. I
think this is good for both KVM and Gunyah as there will be some Gunyah
specifics and some KVM specifics in each of implementation, as you
mentioned in the previous series.
I'll go through series over next week or so and I'll try to find how
much similar Gunyah guest mem fd implementation would be and we can see
if it's better to pull whatever that ends up being into a common
implementation? We could also agree to have completely divergent fd
implementations like we do for the UAPI. Thoughts?
Thanks,
Elliot
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