Hi Christian and Nikita,
On Mon, Sep 03, 2018 at 06:03:49PM +0200, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
On 09/03/2018 04:10 PM, Nikita Leshenko wrote:
On September 2, 2018 5:21:15 AM, fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
index 8b47507faab5..0c483720de8d 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -3892,6 +3892,7 @@ static void kvm_uevent_notify_change(unsigned int type, struct kvm *kvm)
if (type == KVM_EVENT_CREATE_VM) {
add_uevent_var(env, "EVENT=create");
kvm->userspace_pid = task_pid_nr(current);
+ current->kvm = kvm;
Is it OK to store `kvm` on the task_struct? What if the thread that
originally created the VM exits? From the documentation it seems
like a VM is associated with an address space and not a specific
thread, so maybe it should be stored on mm_struct?
Yes, ioctls accessing the kvm can happen from all threads.
Good point, thank you for the tips! I'll move kvm pointer to mm_struct.
From Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt:
Only run VM ioctls from the same process (address space) that was used
to create the VM.
-Nikita
Regards,
Fengguang
