[PATCH v11 05/46] KVM: Enumerate support for PRIVATE memory iff kvm_arch_has_private_mem is defined

From: Ackerley Tng

Date: Wed Aug 26 2026 - 05:19:22 EST


From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>

Explicitly guard reporting support for KVM_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTE_PRIVATE based
on kvm_arch_has_private_mem being #defined in anticipation of tracking
PRIVATE vs. SHARED state per-guest_memfd, not per-VM (to allow in-place
conversion).

guest_memfd support for memory attributes is expected to be unconditional
to avoid yet more macros (all architectures that support guest_memfd are
expected to use per-gmem attributes at some point), at which point
enumerating support KVM_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTE_PRIVATE based solely on memory
attributes being supported by KVM at-large would result in a system-scope
check (NULL @kvm) over-reporting support on arm64.

Give architectures full control over overriding the default definition of
kvm_arch_has_private_mem() by removing the coupling with
CONFIG_KVM_VM_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES.

In a later patch, kvm_arch_has_private_mem() will be defined based on
whether architectural features are compiled in, and made orthogonal to
CONFIG_KVM_VM_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES.

Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Fuad Tabba <tabba@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Binbin Wu <binbin.wu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Shivank Garg <shivankg@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ackerley Tng <ackerleytng@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/kvm_host.h | 2 +-
virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 2 ++
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/kvm_host.h b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
index cffa16647f2ab..b45fb80b0aca0 100644
--- a/include/linux/kvm_host.h
+++ b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
@@ -722,7 +722,7 @@ static inline int kvm_arch_vcpu_memslots_id(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
}
#endif

-#ifndef CONFIG_KVM_VM_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES
+#ifndef kvm_arch_has_private_mem
static inline bool kvm_arch_has_private_mem(struct kvm *kvm)
{
return false;
diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
index 7d5325e3cb44b..050757544a1cb 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -2422,8 +2422,10 @@ static int kvm_vm_ioctl_clear_dirty_log(struct kvm *kvm,
#ifdef CONFIG_KVM_VM_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES
static u64 kvm_supported_mem_attributes(struct kvm *kvm)
{
+#ifdef kvm_arch_has_private_mem
if (!kvm || kvm_arch_has_private_mem(kvm))
return KVM_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTE_PRIVATE;
+#endif

return 0;
}

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