On Wed, Nov 01, 2023, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 11/1/23 17:36, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > > > "Allow" isn't perfect, e.g. I would much prefer a straight KVM_GUEST_MEMFD_USE_HUGEPAGES
> > > > or KVM_GUEST_MEMFD_HUGEPAGES flag, but I wanted the name to convey that KVM doesn't
> > > > (yet) guarantee hugepages. I.e. KVM_GUEST_MEMFD_ALLOW_HUGEPAGE is stronger than
> > > > a hint, but weaker than a requirement. And if/when KVM supports a dedicated memory
> > > > pool of some kind, then we can add KVM_GUEST_MEMFD_REQUIRE_HUGEPAGE.
> > > I think that the current patch is fine, but I will adjust it to always
> > > allow the flag, and to make the size check even if !CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE.
> > > If hugepages are not guaranteed, and (theoretically) you could have no
> > > hugepage at all in the result, it's okay to get this result even if THP is not
> > > available in the kernel.
> > Can you post a fixup patch? It's not clear to me exactly what behavior you intend
> > to end up with.
>
> Sure, just this:
>
> diff --git a/virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c b/virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c
> index 7d1a33c2ad42..34fd070e03d9 100644
> --- a/virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c
> +++ b/virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c
> @@ -430,10 +430,7 @@ int kvm_gmem_create(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_create_guest_memfd *args)
> {
> loff_t size = args->size;
> u64 flags = args->flags;
> - u64 valid_flags = 0;
> -
> - if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE))
> - valid_flags |= KVM_GUEST_MEMFD_ALLOW_HUGEPAGE;
> + u64 valid_flags = KVM_GUEST_MEMFD_ALLOW_HUGEPAGE;
> if (flags & ~valid_flags)
> return -EINVAL;
> @@ -441,11 +438,9 @@ int kvm_gmem_create(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_create_guest_memfd *args)
> if (size < 0 || !PAGE_ALIGNED(size))
> return -EINVAL;
> -#ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
> if ((flags & KVM_GUEST_MEMFD_ALLOW_HUGEPAGE) &&
> !IS_ALIGNED(size, HPAGE_PMD_SIZE))
> return -EINVAL;
> -#endif
That won't work, HPAGE_PMD_SIZE is valid only for CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE=y.
#else /* CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE */
#define HPAGE_PMD_SHIFT ({ BUILD_BUG(); 0; })
#define HPAGE_PMD_MASK ({ BUILD_BUG(); 0; })
#define HPAGE_PMD_SIZE ({ BUILD_BUG(); 0; })
...
> return __kvm_gmem_create(kvm, size, flags);
> }
>
> Paolo
>
