[RFC PATCH v11 13/29] KVM: Add transparent hugepage support for dedicated guest memory

Paolo Bonzini pbonzini at redhat.com
Fri Jul 21 15:07:27 UTC 2023


On 7/19/23 01:44, Sean Christopherson wrote:
>   
> @@ -413,6 +454,9 @@ int kvm_gmem_create(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_create_guest_memfd *args)
>   	u64 flags = args->flags;
>   	u64 valid_flags = 0;
>   
> +	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE))
> +		valid_flags |= KVM_GUEST_MEMFD_ALLOW_HUGEPAGE;
> +

I think it should be always allowed.  The outcome would just be "never 
have a hugepage" if thp is not enabled in the kernel.

Paolo



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