On Thu, 7 May 2026 at 21:22, Ackerley Tng via B4 Relay
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> From: Sean Christopherson <[email protected]>
>
> Now that guest_memfd supports tracking private vs. shared within gmem
> itself, allow userspace to specify INIT_SHARED on a guest_memfd instance
> for x86 Confidential Computing (CoCo) VMs, so long as per-VM attributes
> are disabled, i.e. when it's actually possible for a guest_memfd instance
> to contain shared memory.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Ackerley Tng <[email protected]>

Reviewed-by: Fuad Tabba <[email protected]>

Cheers,
/fuad


> ---
>  arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 11 +++++------
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> index 1560de1e95be0..6609957ecfea3 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> @@ -14172,14 +14172,13 @@ bool kvm_arch_no_poll(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>  }
>
>  #ifdef CONFIG_KVM_GUEST_MEMFD
> -/*
> - * KVM doesn't yet support initializing guest_memfd memory as shared for VMs
> - * with private memory (the private vs. shared tracking needs to be moved 
> into
> - * guest_memfd).
> - */
>  bool kvm_arch_supports_gmem_init_shared(struct kvm *kvm)
>  {
> -       return !kvm_arch_has_private_mem(kvm);
> +       /*
> +        * INIT_SHARED isn't supported if the memory attributes are per-VM,
> +        * in which case guest_memfd can _only_ be used for private memory.
> +        */
> +       return !vm_memory_attributes || !kvm_arch_has_private_mem(kvm);
>  }
>
>  #ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_ARCH_GMEM_PREPARE
>
> --
> 2.54.0.563.g4f69b47b94-goog
>
>

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