virtio-mem: support VIRTIO_MEM_F_UNPLUGGED_INACCESSIBLE
The initial virtio-mem spec states that while unplugged memory should not be read, the device still has to allow for reading unplugged memory inside the usable region. The primary motivation for this default handling was to simplify bringup of virtio-mem, because there were corner cases where Linux might have accidentially read unplugged memory inside added Linux memory blocks. In the meantime, we: 1. Removed /dev/kmem in commit bbcd53c9 ("drivers/char: remove /dev/kmem for good") 2. Disallowed access to virtio-mem device memory via /dev/mem in commit 2128f4e2 ("virtio-mem: disallow mapping virtio-mem memory via /dev/mem") 3. Sanitized access to virtio-mem device memory via /proc/kcore in commit 0daa322b ("fs/proc/kcore: don't read offline sections, logically offline pages and hwpoisoned pages") 4. Sanitized access to virtio-mem device memory via /proc/vmcore in commit ce281462 ("virtio-mem: kdump mode to sanitize /proc/vmcore access") "Accidential" access to unplugged memory is no longer possible; we can support the new VIRTIO_MEM_F_UNPLUGGED_INACCESSIBLE feature that will be required by some hypervisors implementing virtio-mem in the near future. Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> Cc: Marek Kedzierski <mkedzier@redhat.com> Cc: Hui Zhu <teawater@gmail.com> Cc: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com> Cc: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta.linux@gmail.com> Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@linux.alibaba.com> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
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