Re: [PATCH v15 16/21] KVM: arm64: Handle guest_memfd-backed guest page faults

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On Thu, 17 Jul 2025 17:27:26 +0100,
Fuad Tabba <tabba@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Add arm64 architecture support for handling guest page faults on memory
> slots backed by guest_memfd.
> 
> This change introduces a new function, gmem_abort(), which encapsulates
> the fault handling logic specific to guest_memfd-backed memory. The
> kvm_handle_guest_abort() entry point is updated to dispatch to
> gmem_abort() when a fault occurs on a guest_memfd-backed memory slot (as
> determined by kvm_slot_has_gmem()).
> 
> Until guest_memfd gains support for huge pages, the fault granule for
> these memory regions is restricted to PAGE_SIZE.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: James Houghton <jthoughton@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Fuad Tabba <tabba@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx>

	M.

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