Re: [PATCH v3 12/21] KVM: X86: Implement ring-based dirty memory tracking

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 11:27:03AM -0500, Peter Xu wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 03:38:21AM -0500, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 09, 2020 at 09:57:20AM -0500, Peter Xu wrote:
> > > +	/* If to map any writable page within dirty ring, fail it */
> > > +	if ((kvm_page_in_dirty_ring(vcpu->kvm, vma->vm_pgoff) ||
> > > +	     kvm_page_in_dirty_ring(vcpu->kvm, vma->vm_pgoff + pages - 1)) &&
> > > +	    vma->vm_flags & VM_WRITE)
> > > +		return -EINVAL;
> > 
> > Worth thinking about other flags. Do we want to force VM_SHARED?
> > Disable VM_EXEC?
> 
> Makes sense to me.  I think it worths a standalone patch since they
> should apply for the whole per-vcpu mmaped regions rather than only
> for the dirty ring buffers.
> 
> (Should include KVM_PIO_PAGE_OFFSET, KVM_COALESCED_MMIO_PAGE_OFFSET,
>  KVM_S390_SIE_PAGE_OFFSET, kvm_run, and this new one)
> 
> Thanks,


I don't think we can change UAPI for existing ones.
Userspace might be setting these by mistake.

> -- 
> Peter Xu