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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virt/kvm/review-checklist.rst | 2 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst index 6aa40ee05a4a..c17a87a0a5ac 100644 --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst @@ -6414,6 +6414,15 @@ most one mapping per page, i.e. binding multiple memory regions to a single guest_memfd range is not allowed (any number of memory regions can be bound to a single guest_memfd file, but the bound ranges must not overlap). +When the capability KVM_CAP_GUEST_MEMFD_MMAP is supported, the 'flags' field +supports GUEST_MEMFD_FLAG_MMAP. Setting this flag on guest_memfd creation +enables mmap() and faulting of guest_memfd memory to host userspace. + +When the KVM MMU performs a PFN lookup to service a guest fault and the backing +guest_memfd has the GUEST_MEMFD_FLAG_MMAP set, then the fault will always be +consumed from guest_memfd, regardless of whether it is a shared or a private +fault. + See KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION2 for additional details. 4.143 KVM_PRE_FAULT_MEMORY diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/review-checklist.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/review-checklist.rst index debac54e14e7..053f00c50d66 100644 --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/review-checklist.rst +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/review-checklist.rst @@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ New APIs It is important to demonstrate your use case. This can be as simple as explaining that the feature is already in use on bare metal, or it can be a proof-of-concept implementation in userspace. The latter need not be - open source, though that is of course preferrable for easier testing. + open source, though that is of course preferable for easier testing. Selftests should test corner cases of the APIs, and should also cover basic host and guest operation if no open source VMM uses the feature. |