Re: [RFC PATCH v5 06/15] KVM: guest_memfd: Handle final folio_put() of guestmem pages

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Hi Vishal,

On Wed, 5 Feb 2025 at 00:51, Vishal Annapurve <vannapurve@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 17, 2025 at 8:30 AM Fuad Tabba <tabba@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> <snip>
> >
> >  static const char *page_type_name(unsigned int page_type)
> > diff --git a/mm/swap.c b/mm/swap.c
> > index 6f01b56bce13..15220eaabc86 100644
> > --- a/mm/swap.c
> > +++ b/mm/swap.c
> > @@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
> >  #include <linux/page_idle.h>
> >  #include <linux/local_lock.h>
> >  #include <linux/buffer_head.h>
> > +#include <linux/kvm_host.h>
> >
> >  #include "internal.h"
> >
> > @@ -103,6 +104,9 @@ static void free_typed_folio(struct folio *folio)
> >         case PGTY_offline:
> >                 /* Nothing to do, it's offline. */
> >                 return;
> > +       case PGTY_guestmem:
> > +               kvm_gmem_handle_folio_put(folio);
> > +               return;
>
> Unless it's discussed before, kvm_gmem_handle_folio_put() needs to be
> implemented outside KVM code which could be unloaded at runtime.
> Eliott's plan [1] to implement a guest_memfd library can handle this
> scenario in future.
>
> [1] https://patches.linaro.org/project/linux-arm-msm/patch/20240829-guest-memfd-lib-v2-1-b9afc1ff3656@xxxxxxxxxxx/

Yes, not just that, but there's a lot of KVM code in guest_memdf in general.

Cheers,
/fuad





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