linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] KVM: TDX: Document alignment requirements for KVM_TDX_INIT_MEM

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Message-ID: <CAGtprH-te9xrmVgUteAaW17BLuxfZWfu32G4Q+AdP4=DDrm27g@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2025 16:19:58 -0800
From: Vishal Annapurve <vannapurve@...gle.com>
To: Michael Roth <michael.roth@....com>
Cc: kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-coco@...ts.linux.dev, linux-mm@...ck.org, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, thomas.lendacky@....com, pbonzini@...hat.com, 
	seanjc@...gle.com, vbabka@...e.cz, ashish.kalra@....com, 
	liam.merwick@...cle.com, david@...hat.com, ackerleytng@...gle.com, 
	aik@....com, ira.weiny@...el.com, yan.y.zhao@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] KVM: TDX: Document alignment requirements for KVM_TDX_INIT_MEM_REGION

On Mon, Dec 15, 2025 at 7:36 AM Michael Roth <michael.roth@....com> wrote:
>
> Since it was never possible to use a non-PAGE_SIZE-aligned @source_addr,
> go ahead and document this as a requirement. This is in preparation for
> enforcing page-aligned @source_addr for all architectures in
> guest_memfd.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <michael.roth@....com>
> ---
>  Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/intel-tdx.rst | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/intel-tdx.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/intel-tdx.rst
> index 5efac62c92c7..6a222e9d0954 100644
> --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/intel-tdx.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/x86/intel-tdx.rst
> @@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ KVM_TDX_INIT_MEM_REGION
>  :Returns: 0 on success, <0 on error
>
>  Initialize @nr_pages TDX guest private memory starting from @gpa with userspace
> -provided data from @source_addr.
> +provided data from @source_addr. @source_addr must be PAGE_SIZE-aligned.

Reviewed-By: Vishal Annapurve <vannapurve@...gle.com>