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Message-ID: <ZimI8j9LIUsAArdD@google.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2024 15:34:26 -0700
From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org, michael.roth@....com,
isaku.yamahata@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/11] KVM: guest_memfd: extract __kvm_gmem_get_pfn()
On Thu, Apr 04, 2024, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> In preparation for adding a function that walks a set of pages
> provided by userspace and populates them in a guest_memfd,
> add a version of kvm_gmem_get_pfn() that has a "bool prepare"
> argument and passes it down to kvm_gmem_get_folio().
>
> Populating guest memory has to call repeatedly __kvm_gmem_get_pfn()
> on the same file, so make the new function take struct file*.
>
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
> ---
> virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c | 38 +++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
> 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c b/virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c
> index 486748e65f36..a537a7e63ab5 100644
> --- a/virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c
> +++ b/virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c
> @@ -540,33 +540,29 @@ void kvm_gmem_unbind(struct kvm_memory_slot *slot)
> fput(file);
> }
>
> -int kvm_gmem_get_pfn(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_memory_slot *slot,
> - gfn_t gfn, kvm_pfn_t *pfn, int *max_order)
> +static int __kvm_gmem_get_pfn(struct file *file, struct kvm_memory_slot *slot,
> + gfn_t gfn, kvm_pfn_t *pfn, int *max_order, bool prepare)
I genuinely don't know what it means to "prepare" a guest_memfd. I see it becomes
if (!prepare)
fgp_flags |= FGP_CREAT_ONLY;
but I find the name "prepare" to be extremely unhelpful.
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