Re: [RFC PATCH 26/39] KVM: guest_memfd: Track faultability within a struct kvm_gmem_private

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On Thu, Oct 17, 2024 at 07:11:46PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 17.10.24 18:47, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 17, 2024 at 10:58:29AM -0400, Peter Xu wrote:
> > 
> > > My question was more torwards whether gmemfd could still expose the
> > > possibility to be used in VA forms to other modules that may not support
> > > fd+offsets yet.
> > 
> > I keep hearing they don't want to support page pinning on a guestmemfd
> > mapping, so VA based paths could not work.
> 
> For shared pages it absolutely must work. That's what I keep hearing :)

Oh that's confusing. I assume non longterm pins desired on shared
pages though??

Jason




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