linux-kernel - Re: SEV guest regression in 4.18

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Date:   Wed, 22 Aug 2018 15:11:20 -0500
From:   Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@....com>
To:     Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
Cc:     brijesh.singh@....com, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        "x86@...nel.org" <x86@...nel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "kvm@...r.kernel.org" <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Lendacky, Thomas" <Thomas.Lendacky@....com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: SEV guest regression in 4.18

Hi Sean,


On 08/22/2018 10:00 AM, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 10:14:17AM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>> Dropping Pavel as it bounces.
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 11:07:38AM -0500, Brijesh Singh wrote:
>>> The tsc_early_init() is called before setup_arch() -> init_mem_mapping.
>>
>> Ok, I see it, thanks for explaining.
>>
>> So back to your original ideas - I'm wondering whether we should define
>> a chunk of memory which the hypervisor and guest can share and thus
>> communicate over... Something ala SEV-ES also with strictly defined
>> layout and put all those variables there. And then the guest can map
>> decrypted.
> 
> What about creating a data section specifically for shared memory?
> The section would be PMD aligned and sized so that it could be mapped
> appropriately without having to fracture the page.  Then define a
> macro to easily declare data in the new section, a la __read_mostly.
>   

Yes, this is one of approach I have in mind. It will avoid splitting
the larger pages; I am thinking that early in boot code we can lookup
for this special section and decrypt it in-place and probably maps with
C=0. Only downside, it will increase data section footprint a bit
because we need to align this section to PM_SIZE.



>> There might be something similar though, I dunno.

>>
>> Maybe Paolo has a better idea...
>>
>> -- 
>> Regards/Gruss,
>>      Boris.
>>
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