[PATCH kernel] KVM: PPC: Expose userspace mm context id via debugfs
Paul Mackerras
paulus at ozlabs.org
Tue Jul 17 12:01:19 AEST 2018
On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 05:30:26PM +1000, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> This adds a debugfs entry with mm context id of a process which is using
> KVM. This id is an index in the process table so the userspace can dump
> that tree provided it is granted access to /dev/mem.
Is the main intention here to be able to look at the PTEs for the
process that owns the VM? If so, that doesn't seem particularly
KVM-specific, so perhaps something under powerpc/ in debugfs would be
more appropriate.
Is the information in /proc/<pid>/pagemap sufficient for what you
need?
Also, this doesn't seem very useful if /dev/mem is unavailable or
restricted, as it is in most distros these days.
How about a file under debugfs where you can just read out the PTEs
for a given process?
Paul.
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