From: Michael Roth Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2026 21:46:19 +0000 (-0600) Subject: KVM: guest_memfd: Remove preparation tracking X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8622ef05709fbc4903f54cdf1ac8c3725e479dd8;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Fstable.git KVM: guest_memfd: Remove preparation tracking guest_memfd currently uses the folio uptodate flag to track: 1) whether or not a page has been cleared before initial usage 2) whether or not the architecture hooks have been issued to put the page in a private state as defined by the architecture In practice, (2) is only actually being tracked for SEV-SNP VMs, and there do not seem to be any plans/reasons that would suggest this will change in the future, so this additional tracking/complexity is not really providing any general benefit to guest_memfd users. On the other hand, future plans around in-place conversion and hugepage support will make the burden of tracking this information within guest_memfd even more complex. With in-place conversion and hugepage support, the plan is to use the per-folio uptodate flag purely to track the initial clearing of folios, whereas conversion operations could trigger multiple transitions between 'prepared' and 'unprepared' and thus need separate tracking. Since preparation generally happens during fault time, i.e. on the "read-side" of any VM-wide locks that might protect state tracked by guest_memfd, supporting concurrent handling of page faults would likely require more complex locking schemes if the "preparedness" state were tracked by guest_memfd, i.e. if it needs to be updated as part of handling the fault. Instead of keeping this current/future complexity within guest_memfd for what is essentially just SEV-SNP, just drop the tracking for (2) and have the arch-specific preparation hooks get triggered unconditionally on every fault so the arch-specific hooks can check the preparation state directly and decide whether or not a folio still needs additional preparation. In the case of SEV-SNP, the preparation state is already checked again via the preparation hooks to avoid double-preparation, so nothing extra needs to be done to update the handling of things there. Reviewed-by: Vishal Annapurve Tested-by: Vishal Annapurve Reviewed-by: Pankaj Gupta Tested-by: Kai Huang Signed-off-by: Michael Roth Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260108214622.1084057-4-michael.roth@amd.com [sean: massage changelog] Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson --- diff --git a/virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c b/virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c index 24eb33c7948d..e90879322fd0 100644 --- a/virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c +++ b/virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c @@ -76,11 +76,6 @@ static int __kvm_gmem_prepare_folio(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_memory_slot *slo return 0; } -static inline void kvm_gmem_mark_prepared(struct folio *folio) -{ - folio_mark_uptodate(folio); -} - /* * Process @folio, which contains @gfn, so that the guest can use it. * The folio must be locked and the gfn must be contained in @slot. @@ -90,13 +85,7 @@ static inline void kvm_gmem_mark_prepared(struct folio *folio) static int kvm_gmem_prepare_folio(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_memory_slot *slot, gfn_t gfn, struct folio *folio) { - unsigned long nr_pages, i; pgoff_t index; - int r; - - nr_pages = folio_nr_pages(folio); - for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++) - clear_highpage(folio_page(folio, i)); /* * Preparing huge folios should always be safe, since it should @@ -114,11 +103,8 @@ static int kvm_gmem_prepare_folio(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_memory_slot *slot, WARN_ON(!IS_ALIGNED(slot->gmem.pgoff, folio_nr_pages(folio))); index = kvm_gmem_get_index(slot, gfn); index = ALIGN_DOWN(index, folio_nr_pages(folio)); - r = __kvm_gmem_prepare_folio(kvm, slot, index, folio); - if (!r) - kvm_gmem_mark_prepared(folio); - return r; + return __kvm_gmem_prepare_folio(kvm, slot, index, folio); } /* @@ -429,7 +415,7 @@ static vm_fault_t kvm_gmem_fault_user_mapping(struct vm_fault *vmf) if (!folio_test_uptodate(folio)) { clear_highpage(folio_page(folio, 0)); - kvm_gmem_mark_prepared(folio); + folio_mark_uptodate(folio); } vmf->page = folio_file_page(folio, vmf->pgoff); @@ -766,7 +752,7 @@ void kvm_gmem_unbind(struct kvm_memory_slot *slot) static struct folio *__kvm_gmem_get_pfn(struct file *file, struct kvm_memory_slot *slot, pgoff_t index, kvm_pfn_t *pfn, - bool *is_prepared, int *max_order) + int *max_order) { struct file *slot_file = READ_ONCE(slot->gmem.file); struct gmem_file *f = file->private_data; @@ -796,7 +782,6 @@ static struct folio *__kvm_gmem_get_pfn(struct file *file, if (max_order) *max_order = 0; - *is_prepared = folio_test_uptodate(folio); return folio; } @@ -806,19 +791,22 @@ int kvm_gmem_get_pfn(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_memory_slot *slot, { pgoff_t index = kvm_gmem_get_index(slot, gfn); struct folio *folio; - bool is_prepared = false; int r = 0; CLASS(gmem_get_file, file)(slot); if (!file) return -EFAULT; - folio = __kvm_gmem_get_pfn(file, slot, index, pfn, &is_prepared, max_order); + folio = __kvm_gmem_get_pfn(file, slot, index, pfn, max_order); if (IS_ERR(folio)) return PTR_ERR(folio); - if (!is_prepared) - r = kvm_gmem_prepare_folio(kvm, slot, gfn, folio); + if (!folio_test_uptodate(folio)) { + clear_highpage(folio_page(folio, 0)); + folio_mark_uptodate(folio); + } + + r = kvm_gmem_prepare_folio(kvm, slot, gfn, folio); folio_unlock(folio); @@ -861,7 +849,6 @@ long kvm_gmem_populate(struct kvm *kvm, gfn_t start_gfn, void __user *src, long struct folio *folio; gfn_t gfn = start_gfn + i; pgoff_t index = kvm_gmem_get_index(slot, gfn); - bool is_prepared = false; kvm_pfn_t pfn; if (signal_pending(current)) { @@ -869,19 +856,12 @@ long kvm_gmem_populate(struct kvm *kvm, gfn_t start_gfn, void __user *src, long break; } - folio = __kvm_gmem_get_pfn(file, slot, index, &pfn, &is_prepared, NULL); + folio = __kvm_gmem_get_pfn(file, slot, index, &pfn, NULL); if (IS_ERR(folio)) { ret = PTR_ERR(folio); break; } - if (is_prepared) { - folio_unlock(folio); - folio_put(folio); - ret = -EEXIST; - break; - } - folio_unlock(folio); ret = -EINVAL; @@ -893,7 +873,7 @@ long kvm_gmem_populate(struct kvm *kvm, gfn_t start_gfn, void __user *src, long p = src ? src + i * PAGE_SIZE : NULL; ret = post_populate(kvm, gfn, pfn, p, opaque); if (!ret) - kvm_gmem_mark_prepared(folio); + folio_mark_uptodate(folio); put_folio_and_exit: folio_put(folio);