On 8/7/26 23:52, Ackerley Tng via B4 Relay wrote:
> From: Sean Christopherson <[email protected]>
> 
> Bury KVM_VM_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES in x86 to discourage other architectures
> from adding support for per-VM memory attributes, because tracking private
> vs. shared memory on a per-VM basis is now deprecated in favor of tracking
> on a per-guest_memfd basis, and while RWX memory attributes are on the
> horizon, they too are expected to be x86-only.
> 
> This will also allow modifying KVM_VM_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES to be
> user-selectable (in x86) without creating weirdness in KVM's Kconfigs.
> Now that guest_memfd supports in-place conversions, it's entirely possible
> to run x86 CoCo VMs without support for KVM_VM_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES.
> 
> Leave the code itself in common KVM so that it's trivial to undo this
> change if new per-VM attributes do come along.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <[email protected]>
> Reviewed-by: Fuad Tabba <[email protected]>
> Reviewed-by: Xiaoyao Li <[email protected]>
> Reviewed-by: Binbin Wu <[email protected]>
> Tested-by: Shivank Garg <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Ackerley Tng <[email protected]>
> ---

Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <[email protected]>

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Cheers,

David

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