Thread (116 messages) 116 messages, 15 authors, 2022-07-25

Re: [PATCH v5 00/13] KVM: mm: fd-based approach for supporting KVM guest private memory

From: Nakajima, Jun <hidden>
Date: 2022-03-28 22:48:18
Also in: kvm, linux-fsdevel, linux-mm, lkml, qemu-devel

On Mar 28, 2022, at 1:16 PM, Andy Lutomirski [off-list ref] wrote:

On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 6:09 AM Chao Peng [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
This is the v5 of this series which tries to implement the fd-based KVM
guest private memory. The patches are based on latest kvm/queue branch
commit:

 d5089416b7fb KVM: x86: Introduce KVM_CAP_DISABLE_QUIRKS2
Can this series be run and a VM booted without TDX?  A feature like
that might help push it forward.

—Andy
Since the userspace VMM (e.g. QEMU) loses direct access to private memory of the VM, the guest needs to avoid using the private memory for (virtual) DMA buffers, for example. Otherwise, it would need to use bounce buffers, i.e. we would need changes to the VM. I think we can try that (i.e. add only bounce buffer changes). What do you think?

Thanks,
--- 
Jun

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