Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 23 Nov 2021 09:41:34 +0100 | Subject | Re: [RFC v2 PATCH 04/13] KVM: Add fd-based memslot data structure and utils | From | Paolo Bonzini <> |
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On 11/19/21 14:47, Chao Peng wrote: > For fd-based memslot store the file references for shared fd and the > private fd (if any) in the memslot structure. Since there is no 'hva' > concept we cannot call hva_to_pfn() to get a pfn, instead kvm_memfd_ops > is added to get_pfn/put_pfn from the memory backing stores that provide > these fds. > > Signed-off-by: Yu Zhang<yu.c.zhang@linux.intel.com> > Signed-off-by: Chao Peng<chao.p.peng@linux.intel.com> > ---
What about kvm_read/write_guest? Maybe the proposal which kept userspace_addr for the shared fd is more doable (it would be great to ultimately remove the mandatory userspace mapping for the shared fd, but I think KVM is not quite ready for that).
Paolo
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