[PATCH v8 08/46] KVM: Provide generic interface for checking memory private/shared status

From: Ackerley Tng via B4 Relay

Date: Thu Jun 18 2026 - 20:43:33 EST


From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>

Introduce a generic kvm_mem_is_private() interface using a static call to
determine if a GFN is private. This allows the implementation for checking
a GFN's private/shared status to be set at runtime.

In preparation for choosing implementations between a guest_memfd lookup
and the existing VM attribute lookup, rename the existing
VM-attribute-based check to kvm_vm_mem_is_private to emphasize that it
looks up VM attributes.

Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/kvm_host.h | 12 +++++++++++-
virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/kvm_host.h b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
index eb26d4ea8945a..3915da2a61778 100644
--- a/include/linux/kvm_host.h
+++ b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
@@ -2546,7 +2546,7 @@ bool kvm_arch_pre_set_memory_attributes(struct kvm *kvm,
bool kvm_arch_post_set_memory_attributes(struct kvm *kvm,
struct kvm_gfn_range *range);

-static inline bool kvm_mem_is_private(struct kvm *kvm, gfn_t gfn)
+static inline bool kvm_vm_mem_is_private(struct kvm *kvm, gfn_t gfn)
{
return kvm_get_vm_memory_attributes(kvm, gfn) & KVM_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTE_PRIVATE;
}
@@ -2557,6 +2557,16 @@ static inline bool kvm_mem_range_is_private(struct kvm *kvm, gfn_t start,
KVM_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTE_PRIVATE,
KVM_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTE_PRIVATE);
}
+#endif /* CONFIG_KVM_VM_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES */
+
+#ifdef kvm_arch_has_private_mem
+typedef bool (kvm_mem_is_private_t)(struct kvm *kvm, gfn_t gfn);
+DECLARE_STATIC_CALL(__kvm_mem_is_private, kvm_mem_is_private_t);
+
+static inline bool kvm_mem_is_private(struct kvm *kvm, gfn_t gfn)
+{
+ return static_call(__kvm_mem_is_private)(kvm, gfn);
+}
#else
static inline bool kvm_mem_is_private(struct kvm *kvm, gfn_t gfn)
{
diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
index 6669f1477013c..8b238e461b854 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -2627,6 +2627,20 @@ static int kvm_vm_ioctl_set_mem_attributes(struct kvm *kvm,
}
#endif /* CONFIG_KVM_VM_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES */

+#ifdef kvm_arch_has_private_mem
+DEFINE_STATIC_CALL_RET0(__kvm_mem_is_private, kvm_mem_is_private_t);
+EXPORT_STATIC_CALL_GPL(__kvm_mem_is_private);
+
+static void kvm_init_memory_attributes(void)
+{
+#ifdef CONFIG_KVM_VM_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES
+ static_call_update(__kvm_mem_is_private, kvm_vm_mem_is_private);
+#endif
+}
+#else
+static void kvm_init_memory_attributes(void) { }
+#endif
+
struct kvm_memory_slot *gfn_to_memslot(struct kvm *kvm, gfn_t gfn)
{
return __gfn_to_memslot(kvm_memslots(kvm), gfn);
@@ -6528,6 +6542,7 @@ int kvm_init(unsigned vcpu_size, unsigned vcpu_align, struct module *module)
kvm_preempt_ops.sched_in = kvm_sched_in;
kvm_preempt_ops.sched_out = kvm_sched_out;

+ kvm_init_memory_attributes();
kvm_init_debug();

r = kvm_vfio_ops_init();

--
2.55.0.rc0.738.g0c8ab3ebcc-goog