[RFC PATCH 00/11] New KVM ioctl to link a gmem inode to a new gmem file

[Ackerley Tng]

Hello,

This patchset builds upon the code at
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230718234512.1690985-1-seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx/T/.

This code is available at
https://github.com/googleprodkernel/linux-cc/tree/kvm-gmem-link-migrate-rfcv1.

In guest_mem v11, a split file/inode model was proposed, where memslot
bindings belong to the file and pages belong to the inode. This model
lends itself well to having different VMs use separate files pointing
to the same inode.

This RFC proposes an ioctl, KVM_LINK_GUEST_MEMFD, that takes a VM and
a gmem fd, and returns another gmem fd referencing a different file
and associated with VM. This RFC also includes an update to
KVM_CAP_VM_MOVE_ENC_CONTEXT_FROM to migrate memory context
(slot->arch.lpage_info and kvm->mem_attr_array) from source to
destination vm, intra-host.

Intended usage of the two ioctls:

1. Source VM’s fd is passed to destination VM via unix sockets
2. Destination VM uses new ioctl KVM_LINK_GUEST_MEMFD to link source
   VM’s fd to a new fd.
3. Destination VM will pass new fds to KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION,
   which will bind the new file, pointing to the same inode that the
   source VM’s file points to, to memslots
4. Use KVM_CAP_VM_MOVE_ENC_CONTEXT_FROM to move kvm->mem_attr_array
   and slot->arch.lpage_info to the destination VM.
5. Run the destination VM as per normal

Some other approaches considered were:

+ Using the linkat() syscall, but that requires a mount/directory for
  a source fd to be linked to
+ Using the dup() syscall, but that only duplicates the fd, and both
  fds point to the same file

---

Ackerley Tng (11):
  KVM: guest_mem: Refactor out kvm_gmem_alloc_file()
  KVM: guest_mem: Add ioctl KVM_LINK_GUEST_MEMFD
  KVM: selftests: Add tests for KVM_LINK_GUEST_MEMFD ioctl
  KVM: selftests: Test transferring private memory to another VM
  KVM: x86: Refactor sev's flag migration_in_progress to kvm struct
  KVM: x86: Refactor common code out of sev.c
  KVM: x86: Refactor common migration preparation code out of
    sev_vm_move_enc_context_from
  KVM: x86: Let moving encryption context be configurable
  KVM: x86: Handle moving of memory context for intra-host migration
  KVM: selftests: Generalize migration functions from
    sev_migrate_tests.c
  KVM: selftests: Add tests for migration of private mem

 arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h               |   4 +-
 arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c                        |  85 ++-----
 arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h                        |   3 +-
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c                            | 221 +++++++++++++++++-
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.h                            |   6 +
 include/linux/kvm_host.h                      |  18 ++
 include/uapi/linux/kvm.h                      |   8 +
 tools/testing/selftests/kvm/Makefile          |   1 +
 .../testing/selftests/kvm/guest_memfd_test.c  |  42 ++++
 .../selftests/kvm/include/kvm_util_base.h     |  31 +++
 .../kvm/x86_64/private_mem_migrate_tests.c    |  93 ++++++++
 .../selftests/kvm/x86_64/sev_migrate_tests.c  |  48 ++--
 virt/kvm/guest_mem.c                          | 151 ++++++++++--
 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c                           |  10 +
 virt/kvm/kvm_mm.h                             |   7 +
 15 files changed, 596 insertions(+), 132 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/kvm/x86_64/private_mem_migrate_tests.c

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