On Fri, Jan 13, 2023, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Wed, Dec 14, 2022 at 01:39:59PM -0600, Michael Roth wrote: > > From: Nikunj A Dadhania <nikunj@xxxxxxx> > > > > KVM_HC_MAP_GPA_RANGE hypercall is used by the SEV guest to notify a > > change in the page encryption status to the hypervisor. > > > > The hypercall exits to userspace with KVM_EXIT_HYPERCALL exit code, > > currently this is used for explicit memory conversion between > > shared/private for memfd based private memory. > > So Tom and I spent a while to figure out what this is doing... > > Please explain in more detail what that is. Like the hypercall gets ignored for > memslots which cannot be private...? Don't bother, just drop the patch. It's perfectly legal for userspace to create the private memslot in response to a guest request.