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

Re: [PATCH v5 04/13] mm/shmem: Restrict MFD_INACCESSIBLE memory against RLIMIT_MEMLOCK

From: Kirill A. Shutemov <hidden>
Date: 2022-04-11 15:33:09
Also in: kvm, linux-fsdevel, linux-mm, lkml, qemu-devel

On Fri, Apr 08, 2022 at 09:02:54PM +0800, Chao Peng wrote:
quoted
I think the correct approach is to not do the locking automatically for SHM_F_INACCESSIBLE,
and instead require userspace to do shmctl(.., SHM_LOCK, ...) if userspace knows the
consumers don't support migrate/swap.  That'd require wrapping migrate_page() and then
wiring up notifier hooks for migrate/swap, but IMO that's a good thing to get sorted
out sooner than later.  KVM isn't planning on support migrate/swap for TDX or SNP,
but supporting at least migrate for a software-only implementation a la pKVM should
be relatively straightforward.  On the notifiee side, KVM can terminate the VM if it
gets an unexpected migrate/swap, e.g. so that TDX/SEV VMs don't die later with
exceptions and/or data corruption (pre-SNP SEV guests) in the guest.
SHM_LOCK sounds like a good match.
Emm, no. shmctl(2) and SHM_LOCK are SysV IPC thing. I don't see how they
fit here.

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 Kirill A. Shutemov
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