Re: [PATCH] mm, virt: merge AS_UNMOVABLE and AS_INACCESSIBLE

From: David Hildenbrand
Date: Thu Jul 11 2024 - 14:40:42 EST


On 11.07.24 20:03, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
The flags AS_UNMOVABLE and AS_INACCESSIBLE were both added just for guest_memfd;
AS_UNMOVABLE is already in existing versions of Linux, while AS_INACCESSIBLE was
acked for inclusion in 6.11.

But really, they are the same thing: only guest_memfd uses them, at least for
now, and guest_memfd pages are unmovable because they should not be
accessed by the CPU.

So merge them into one; use the AS_INACCESSIBLE name which is more comprehensive.
At the same time, this fixes an embarrassing bug where AS_INACCESSIBLE was used
as a bit mask, despite it being just a bit index.

The bug was mostly benign, becaus AS_INACCESSIBLE's bit representation (1010)
corresponded to setting AS_UNEVICTABLE (which is already set) and AS_ENOSPC
(except no async writes can happen on the guest_memfd). So the AS_INACCESSIBLE
flag simply had no effect.

Fixes: 1d23040caa8b ("KVM: guest_memfd: Use AS_INACCESSIBLE when creating guest_memfd inode")
Fixes: c72ceafbd12c ("mm: Introduce AS_INACCESSIBLE for encrypted/confidential memory")
Cc: linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx

Yeah, if we have to bring back the separation in the future, we can revisit that.

Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>

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Cheers,

David / dhildenb