linux/virt/kvm/Kconfig
Sean Christopherson a7800aa80e KVM: Add KVM_CREATE_GUEST_MEMFD ioctl() for guest-specific backing memory
Introduce an ioctl(), KVM_CREATE_GUEST_MEMFD, to allow creating file-based
memory that is tied to a specific KVM virtual machine and whose primary
purpose is to serve guest memory.

A guest-first memory subsystem allows for optimizations and enhancements
that are kludgy or outright infeasible to implement/support in a generic
memory subsystem.  With guest_memfd, guest protections and mapping sizes
are fully decoupled from host userspace mappings.   E.g. KVM currently
doesn't support mapping memory as writable in the guest without it also
being writable in host userspace, as KVM's ABI uses VMA protections to
define the allow guest protection.  Userspace can fudge this by
establishing two mappings, a writable mapping for the guest and readable
one for itself, but that’s suboptimal on multiple fronts.

Similarly, KVM currently requires the guest mapping size to be a strict
subset of the host userspace mapping size, e.g. KVM doesn’t support
creating a 1GiB guest mapping unless userspace also has a 1GiB guest
mapping.  Decoupling the mappings sizes would allow userspace to precisely
map only what is needed without impacting guest performance, e.g. to
harden against unintentional accesses to guest memory.

Decoupling guest and userspace mappings may also allow for a cleaner
alternative to high-granularity mappings for HugeTLB, which has reached a
bit of an impasse and is unlikely to ever be merged.

A guest-first memory subsystem also provides clearer line of sight to
things like a dedicated memory pool (for slice-of-hardware VMs) and
elimination of "struct page" (for offload setups where userspace _never_
needs to mmap() guest memory).

More immediately, being able to map memory into KVM guests without mapping
said memory into the host is critical for Confidential VMs (CoCo VMs), the
initial use case for guest_memfd.  While AMD's SEV and Intel's TDX prevent
untrusted software from reading guest private data by encrypting guest
memory with a key that isn't usable by the untrusted host, projects such
as Protected KVM (pKVM) provide confidentiality and integrity *without*
relying on memory encryption.  And with SEV-SNP and TDX, accessing guest
private memory can be fatal to the host, i.e. KVM must be prevent host
userspace from accessing guest memory irrespective of hardware behavior.

Attempt #1 to support CoCo VMs was to add a VMA flag to mark memory as
being mappable only by KVM (or a similarly enlightened kernel subsystem).
That approach was abandoned largely due to it needing to play games with
PROT_NONE to prevent userspace from accessing guest memory.

Attempt #2 to was to usurp PG_hwpoison to prevent the host from mapping
guest private memory into userspace, but that approach failed to meet
several requirements for software-based CoCo VMs, e.g. pKVM, as the kernel
wouldn't easily be able to enforce a 1:1 page:guest association, let alone
a 1:1 pfn:gfn mapping.  And using PG_hwpoison does not work for memory
that isn't backed by 'struct page', e.g. if devices gain support for
exposing encrypted memory regions to guests.

Attempt #3 was to extend the memfd() syscall and wrap shmem to provide
dedicated file-based guest memory.  That approach made it as far as v10
before feedback from Hugh Dickins and Christian Brauner (and others) led
to it demise.

Hugh's objection was that piggybacking shmem made no sense for KVM's use
case as KVM didn't actually *want* the features provided by shmem.  I.e.
KVM was using memfd() and shmem to avoid having to manage memory directly,
not because memfd() and shmem were the optimal solution, e.g. things like
read/write/mmap in shmem were dead weight.

Christian pointed out flaws with implementing a partial overlay (wrapping
only _some_ of shmem), e.g. poking at inode_operations or super_operations
would show shmem stuff, but address_space_operations and file_operations
would show KVM's overlay.  Paraphrashing heavily, Christian suggested KVM
stop being lazy and create a proper API.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20201020061859.18385-1-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20210416154106.23721-1-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20210824005248.200037-1-seanjc@google.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20211111141352.26311-1-chao.p.peng@linux.intel.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221202061347.1070246-1-chao.p.peng@linux.intel.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/ff5c5b97-acdf-9745-ebe5-c6609dd6322e@google.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230418-anfallen-irdisch-6993a61be10b@brauner
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZEM5Zq8oo+xnApW9@google.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20230306191944.GA15773@monkey
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/ZII1p8ZHlHaQ3dDl@casper.infradead.org
Cc: Fuad Tabba <tabba@google.com>
Cc: Vishal Annapurve <vannapurve@google.com>
Cc: Ackerley Tng <ackerleytng@google.com>
Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
Cc: Maciej Szmigiero <mail@maciej.szmigiero.name>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Quentin Perret <qperret@google.com>
Cc: Michael Roth <michael.roth@amd.com>
Cc: Wang <wei.w.wang@intel.com>
Cc: Liam Merwick <liam.merwick@oracle.com>
Cc: Isaku Yamahata <isaku.yamahata@gmail.com>
Co-developed-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Yu Zhang <yu.c.zhang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Yu Zhang <yu.c.zhang@linux.intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Chao Peng <chao.p.peng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Chao Peng <chao.p.peng@linux.intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Ackerley Tng <ackerleytng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ackerley Tng <ackerleytng@google.com>
Co-developed-by: Isaku Yamahata <isaku.yamahata@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Isaku Yamahata <isaku.yamahata@intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Co-developed-by: Michael Roth <michael.roth@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <michael.roth@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Message-Id: <20231027182217.3615211-17-seanjc@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Fuad Tabba <tabba@google.com>
Tested-by: Fuad Tabba <tabba@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2023-11-14 08:01:03 -05:00

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# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
# KVM common configuration items and defaults
config HAVE_KVM
bool
config HAVE_KVM_PFNCACHE
bool
config HAVE_KVM_IRQCHIP
bool
config HAVE_KVM_IRQFD
bool
config HAVE_KVM_IRQ_ROUTING
bool
config HAVE_KVM_DIRTY_RING
bool
# Only strongly ordered architectures can select this, as it doesn't
# put any explicit constraint on userspace ordering. They can also
# select the _ACQ_REL version.
config HAVE_KVM_DIRTY_RING_TSO
bool
select HAVE_KVM_DIRTY_RING
depends on X86
# Weakly ordered architectures can only select this, advertising
# to userspace the additional ordering requirements.
config HAVE_KVM_DIRTY_RING_ACQ_REL
bool
select HAVE_KVM_DIRTY_RING
# Allow enabling both the dirty bitmap and dirty ring. Only architectures
# that need to dirty memory outside of a vCPU context should select this.
config NEED_KVM_DIRTY_RING_WITH_BITMAP
bool
depends on HAVE_KVM_DIRTY_RING
config HAVE_KVM_EVENTFD
bool
select EVENTFD
config KVM_MMIO
bool
config KVM_ASYNC_PF
bool
# Toggle to switch between direct notification and batch job
config KVM_ASYNC_PF_SYNC
bool
config HAVE_KVM_MSI
bool
config HAVE_KVM_CPU_RELAX_INTERCEPT
bool
config KVM_VFIO
bool
config HAVE_KVM_INVALID_WAKEUPS
bool
config KVM_GENERIC_DIRTYLOG_READ_PROTECT
bool
config KVM_COMPAT
def_bool y
depends on KVM && COMPAT && !(S390 || ARM64 || RISCV)
config HAVE_KVM_IRQ_BYPASS
bool
config HAVE_KVM_VCPU_ASYNC_IOCTL
bool
config HAVE_KVM_VCPU_RUN_PID_CHANGE
bool
config HAVE_KVM_NO_POLL
bool
config KVM_XFER_TO_GUEST_WORK
bool
config HAVE_KVM_PM_NOTIFIER
bool
config KVM_GENERIC_HARDWARE_ENABLING
bool
config KVM_GENERIC_MMU_NOTIFIER
select MMU_NOTIFIER
bool
config KVM_GENERIC_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES
select KVM_GENERIC_MMU_NOTIFIER
bool
config KVM_PRIVATE_MEM
select XARRAY_MULTI
bool