linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC 00/10] Intel EPT-Based Sub-page Write Protection Support.

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Message-ID: <20171018070936.GA10808@infradead.org>
Date:   Wed, 18 Oct 2017 00:09:36 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Zhang Yi <yi.z.zhang@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        pbonzini@...hat.com, rkrcmar@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 00/10] Intel EPT-Based Sub-page Write Protection
 Support.

> We introduced 2 ioctls to let user application to set/get subpage write protection bitmap per gfn, each gfn corresponds to a bitmap.
> The user application, qemu, or some other security control daemon. will set the protection bitmap via this ioctl.
> the API defined as:
> 	struct kvm_subpage {
> 		__u64 base_gfn;
> 		__u64 npages;
> 		/* sub-page write-access bitmap array */
> 		__u32 access_map[SUBPAGE_MAX_BITMAP];
> 		}sp;
> 	kvm_vm_ioctl(s, KVM_SUBPAGES_SET_ACCESS, &sp)
> 	kvm_vm_ioctl(s, KVM_SUBPAGES_GET_ACCESS, &sp)

What is the use case for this feature?