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Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2024 16:18:29 -0300
From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>
To: Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 26/39] KVM: guest_memfd: Track faultability within a
struct kvm_gmem_private
On Thu, Oct 17, 2024 at 03:11:10PM -0400, Peter Xu wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 17, 2024 at 02:10:10PM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > > If so, maybe that's a non-issue for non-CoCo, where the VM object /
> > > gmemfd object (when created) can have a flag marking that it's
> > > always shared and can never be converted to private for any page
> > > within.
> >
> > What is non-CoCo? Does it include the private/shared concept?
>
> I used that to represent the possible gmemfd use cases outside confidential
> computing.
>
> So the private/shared things should still be around as fundamental property
> of gmemfd, but it should be always shared and no convertion needed for the
> whole lifecycle of the gmemfd when marked !CoCo.
But what does private mean in this context?
Is it just like a bit of additional hypervisor security that the page
is not mapped anyplace except the KVM stage 2 and the hypervisor can
cause it to become mapped/shared at any time? But the guest has no
idea about this?
Jason
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