linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH gmem FIXUP] kvm: guestmem: do not use a file system

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Date:   Mon, 16 Oct 2023 17:19:56 +0200
From:   Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:     Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
Cc:     Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kvm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH gmem FIXUP] kvm: guestmem: do not use a file system

On 10/13/23 18:55, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 11, 2023, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> Your patch 2 looks good, but perhaps instead of setting the owner we could
>> stash the struct module* in a global, and try_get/put it from open and
>> release respectively?  That is, .owner keeps the kvm module alive and the
>> kvm module keeps kvm-intel/kvm-amd alive.  That would subsume patches 1 and 3.
> 
> I don't think that would be a net positive.  We'd have to implement .open() for
> several file types just to get a reference to the sub-module.  At that point, the
> odds of forgetting to implement .open() are about the same as forgetting to set
> .owner when adding a new file type, e.g. guest_memfd.

Fair enough, it's true that many fops don't have a .open callback already.

Paolo