[PATCH v11 43/46] KVM: selftests: Support guest_memfd attributes in private_mem_conversions_test

From: Ackerley Tng

Date: Wed Aug 26 2026 - 05:39:30 EST


Update private_mem_conversions_test to support environments where
guest_memfd tracks memory attributes.

At guest_memfd setup time, initialize the guest_memfd as shared to align
with how memory would default to shared when shared/private state was
tracked at the VM level.

When handling a hypercall to set attributes, use
vm_mem_set_memory_attributes() to send the ioctl to the guest_memfd instead
of the VM.

Suggested-by: Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ackerley Tng <ackerleytng@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
.../selftests/kvm/x86/private_mem_conversions_test.c | 18 +++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/x86/private_mem_conversions_test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/x86/private_mem_conversions_test.c
index cf50e9a332c5b..0c94e36575a5e 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/x86/private_mem_conversions_test.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/x86/private_mem_conversions_test.c
@@ -306,9 +306,12 @@ static void handle_exit_hypercall(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
if (do_fallocate)
vm_guest_mem_fallocate(vm, gpa, size, map_shared);

- if (set_attributes)
- vm_set_memory_attributes(vm, gpa, size,
- map_shared ? 0 : KVM_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTE_PRIVATE);
+ if (set_attributes) {
+ u64 attrs = map_shared ? 0 : KVM_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTE_PRIVATE;
+
+ vm_mem_set_memory_attributes(vm, gpa, size, attrs);
+ }
+
run->hypercall.ret = 0;
}

@@ -383,6 +386,7 @@ static void test_mem_conversions(enum vm_mem_backing_src_type src_type, u32 nr_v
struct kvm_vcpu *vcpus[KVM_MAX_VCPUS];
pthread_t threads[KVM_MAX_VCPUS];
struct kvm_vm *vm;
+ u64 gmem_flags;
int memfd, i;

const struct vm_shape shape = {
@@ -397,12 +401,16 @@ static void test_mem_conversions(enum vm_mem_backing_src_type src_type, u32 nr_v

vm_enable_cap(vm, KVM_CAP_EXIT_HYPERCALL, (1 << KVM_HC_MAP_GPA_RANGE));

- memfd = vm_create_guest_memfd(vm, memfd_size, 0);
+ gmem_flags = 0;
+ if (kvm_has_gmem_attributes)
+ gmem_flags |= GUEST_MEMFD_FLAG_INIT_SHARED;
+
+ memfd = vm_create_guest_memfd(vm, memfd_size, gmem_flags);

for (i = 0; i < nr_memslots; i++)
vm_mem_add(vm, src_type, BASE_DATA_GPA + slot_size * i,
BASE_DATA_SLOT + i, slot_size / vm->page_size,
- KVM_MEM_GUEST_MEMFD, memfd, slot_size * i, 0);
+ KVM_MEM_GUEST_MEMFD, memfd, slot_size * i, gmem_flags);

for (i = 0; i < nr_vcpus; i++) {
gpa_t gpa = BASE_DATA_GPA + i * per_cpu_size;

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2.55.0.887.g758fc8c411-goog