Re: [PATCH v5 0/2] mm: Refactor KVM guest_memfd to introduce guestmem library

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On 11/22/24 11:29, Elliot Berman wrote:
In preparation for adding more features to KVM's guest_memfd, refactor
and introduce a library which abtracts some of the core-mm decisions
about managing folios associated with guest memory. The goal of the
refactor serves two purposes:

1. Provide an easier way to reason about memory in guest_memfd. KVM
    needs to support multiple confidentiality models (TDX, SEV, pKVM, Arm
    CCA). These models support different semantics for when the host
    can(not) access guest memory. An abstraction for the allocator and
    managing the state of pages will make it eaiser to reason about the
    state of folios within the guest_memfd.

2. Provide a common implementation for other users such as Gunyah [1] and
    guestmemfs [2].

In this initial series, I'm seeking comments for the line I'm drawing
between library and user (KVM). I've not introduced new functionality in
this series; the first new feature will probably be Fuad's mappability
patches [3].

I've decided to only bring out the address_space from guest_memfd as it
seemed the simplest approach. In the current iteration, KVM "attaches"
the guestmem to the inode. I expect we'll want to provide some helpers
for inode, file, and vm operations when it's relevant to
mappability/accessiblity/faultability.

I'd appreciate any feedback, especially on how much we should pull into
the guestmem library.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240222-gunyah-v17-0-1e9da6763d38@xxxxxxxxxxx/
[2]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240805093245.889357-1-jgowans@xxxxxxxxxx/
[3]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241010085930.1546800-3-tabba@xxxxxxxxxx/

Changes in v5:
- Free all folios when the owner removes detaches the guestmem
- Link to v4: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241120-guestmem-library-v4-0-0c597f733909@xxxxxxxxxxx

Changes in v4:
- Update folio_free() to add address_space mapping instead of
   invalidate_folio/free_folio path.
- Link to v3: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241113-guestmem-library-v3-0-71fdee85676b@xxxxxxxxxxx

Changes in v3:
  - Refactor/extract only the address_space
  - Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240829-guest-memfd-lib-v2-0-b9afc1ff3656@xxxxxxxxxxx/

Changes in v2:
- Significantly reworked to introduce "accessible" and "safe" reference
   counters
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240805-guest-memfd-lib-v1-0-e5a29a4ff5d7@xxxxxxxxxxx

Signed-off-by: Elliot Berman <quic_eberman@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Tested-by: Mike Day <michael.day@xxxxxxx>

---
Elliot Berman (2):
       filemap: Pass address_space mapping to ->free_folio()
       mm: guestmem: Convert address_space operations to guestmem library

  Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst |   2 +-
  MAINTAINERS                           |   2 +
  fs/nfs/dir.c                          |  11 +-
  fs/orangefs/inode.c                   |   3 +-
  include/linux/fs.h                    |   2 +-
  include/linux/guestmem.h              |  34 ++++++
  mm/Kconfig                            |   3 +
  mm/Makefile                           |   1 +
  mm/filemap.c                          |   9 +-
  mm/guestmem.c                         | 201 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
  mm/secretmem.c                        |   3 +-
  mm/vmscan.c                           |   4 +-
  virt/kvm/Kconfig                      |   1 +
  virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c                |  98 +++++------------
  14 files changed, 290 insertions(+), 84 deletions(-)
---
base-commit: 5cb1659f412041e4780f2e8ee49b2e03728a2ba6
change-id: 20241112-guestmem-library-68363cb29186

Best regards,




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