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- Patent Title: Utilizing virtual input/output memory management units (IOMMU) for tracking encryption status of memory pages
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Application No.: US16943551Application Date: 2020-07-30
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Publication No.: US11748135B2Publication Date: 2023-09-05
- Inventor: Michael Tsirkin
- Applicant: Red Hat, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US NC Raleigh
- Assignee: Red Hat, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Red Hat, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US NC Raleigh
- Agency: Lowenstein Sandler LLP
- Main IPC: G06F9/455
- IPC: G06F9/455 ; G06F12/06 ; G06F13/28 ; G06F9/445 ; H04L9/08

Abstract:
Systems and methods for memory management for virtual machines. An example method may include creating, by a hypervisor running on a host computer system, a virtual device associated with a virtual machine managed by the hypervisor. The virtual device may include a virtual input/output memory management unit (IOMMU). The method may further include appending, by a driver of the virtual device, a plurality of page table entries to a page table of the virtual IOMMU, wherein each page table entry of the plurality of page table entries references unencrypted memory pages used by the virtual machine. Responsive to receiving a memory access request with respect to a memory page, the hypervisor may determine, using the page table of the virtual IOMMU, whether the memory page is encrypted.
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