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| author | Ackerley Tng <ackerleytng@google.com> | 2025-10-16 10:28:44 -0700 |
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| committer | Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> | 2025-10-20 06:30:40 -0700 |
| commit | a63ca4236e6799cf4343f9aec9d92afdfa582446 (patch) | |
| tree | ec964e86b5dc2b1901ab0b64904819bf29a3f8e2 /include | |
| parent | 392dd9d9488a8a81c2d58f9f4eee99c5b7b8e1c7 (diff) | |
KVM: guest_memfd: Use guest mem inodes instead of anonymous inodes
guest_memfd's inode represents memory the guest_memfd is
providing. guest_memfd's file represents a struct kvm's view of that
memory.
Using a custom inode allows customization of the inode teardown
process via callbacks. For example, ->evict_inode() allows
customization of the truncation process on file close, and
->destroy_inode() and ->free_inode() allow customization of the inode
freeing process.
Customizing the truncation process allows flexibility in management of
guest_memfd memory and customization of the inode freeing process
allows proper cleanup of memory metadata stored on the inode.
Memory metadata is more appropriately stored on the inode (as opposed
to the file), since the metadata is for the memory and is not unique
to a specific binding and struct kvm.
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Co-developed-by: Fuad Tabba <tabba@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Fuad Tabba <tabba@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ackerley Tng <ackerleytng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Shivank Garg <shivankg@amd.com>
Tested-by: Ashish Kalra <ashish.kalra@amd.com>
[sean: drop helpers, open code logic in __kvm_gmem_create()]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251016172853.52451-4-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/uapi/linux/magic.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/magic.h b/include/uapi/linux/magic.h index bb575f3ab45e..638ca21b7a90 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/magic.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/magic.h @@ -103,5 +103,6 @@ #define DEVMEM_MAGIC 0x454d444d /* "DMEM" */ #define SECRETMEM_MAGIC 0x5345434d /* "SECM" */ #define PID_FS_MAGIC 0x50494446 /* "PIDF" */ +#define GUEST_MEMFD_MAGIC 0x474d454d /* "GMEM" */ #endif /* __LINUX_MAGIC_H__ */ |