[RFC PATCH v11 13/29] KVM: Add transparent hugepage support for dedicated guest memory
Sean Christopherson
seanjc at google.com
Fri Jul 21 17:13:46 UTC 2023
On Fri, Jul 21, 2023, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 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.
I don't have a strong preference. My thinking was that userspace would probably
rather have an explicit error, as opposed to silently running with a misconfigured
setup.
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