Re: [PATCH v13 13/35] KVM: Introduce per-page memory attributes

From: David Matlack
Date: Tue Oct 31 2023 - 12:43:46 EST


On 2023-10-27 11:21 AM, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> From: Chao Peng <chao.p.peng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/kvm_host.h b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
> index 89c1a991a3b8..df573229651b 100644
> --- a/include/linux/kvm_host.h
> +++ b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
> @@ -808,6 +809,9 @@ struct kvm {
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_PM_NOTIFIER
> struct notifier_block pm_notifier;
> +#endif
> +#ifdef CONFIG_KVM_GENERIC_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES
> + struct xarray mem_attr_array;

Please document how access to mem_attr_array is synchronized. If I'm
reading the code correctly I think it's...

/* Protected by slots_locks (for writes) and RCU (for reads) */