linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] KVM: fix async page fault working for readonly mapping

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Message-ID: <4FBBA263.6070600@redhat.com>
Date:	Tue, 22 May 2012 17:27:47 +0300
From:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
To:	Gleb Natapov <gleb@...hat.com>
CC:	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>,
	Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, KVM <kvm@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: fix async page fault working for readonly mapping

On 05/22/2012 08:31 AM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 04:30:41PM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
>> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 04:15:50PM +0800, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
>> > On 05/21/2012 04:08 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
>> > 
>> > > On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 02:45:45PM +0800, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
>> > >> If we map a readonly memory space from host to guest and the page is
>> > >> not currently mapped in the host, we will get a fault-pfn and async
>> > >> is not allowed, then the vm will crash
>> > >>
>> > > Why would we want to map a readonly memory space from host to guest?
>> > > We may want to do it to support memory semantics on read and mmio on
>> > > write, but do not right now unless something changed while I was not
>> > > looking.
>> > 
>> > 
>> > Some test cases in kvm-unit-tests and the benchmark i am writing for KVM
>> > need map the function on host to guest.
>> 
>> Or ROM. Or read-only mappings of IVSHMEM (which don't exist yet).
> True. KVM should ignore writes to such areas, not kill a guest. Is this
> how the code works today?
> 

Right now qemu maps ROM as RAM.  There is no way to tell kvm that
something is ROM (or ROMD).

There are two options for that:
- mprotect() the ROM, and teach kvm about read-only areas (this patch);
but that doesn't work if we have a read-only and a writable alias of the
same area
- add a flag indicating that an area is ROM or ROMD

I prefer the latter, because of the alias issue.

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