Re: [PATCH v13 01/44] KVM: guest_memfd: Optimize away conversion overheads via dead-code elimination

On 9/11/2026 7:55 AM, Ackerley Tng via B4 Relay wrote:

From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>

Add and use kvm_arch_has_gmem_convert() to guard guest_memfd's invocation
of arch hooks related to converting memory between private and shared, as
only one half of the x86 CoCo duo needs the runtime hooks (any pre-work is
pure overhead for TDX).  At this exact moment, the overhead is negligible,
but that will change when in-place conversion comes along, at which point
to-shared conversions will "need" to find all affected folios prior to
calling into arch code.  In quotes because very technically that work could
be pushed to arch code, but that would bleed guest_memfd details into arch
code and would be far worse than adding yet another kvm_arch_has... hook.

Opportunistically provide the kvm_arch_gmem_make_private() declaration, and
rely on dead-code elimination to eliminate the call to non-existent code
when CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_ARCH_GMEM_CONVERT=n.

Reported-by: Binbin Wu <redacted>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/1ec08cd8-3072-4753-ad5e-cd34956647f8@linux.intel.com (local)
Suggested-by: Ackerley Tng <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ackerley Tng <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Fuad Tabba <fuad.tabba@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Binbin Wu <redacted>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>

Reviewed-by: Xiaoyao Li <redacted>