linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH Part2 v5 08/45] x86/fault: Add support to handle the RMP fault for user address

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Date:   Mon, 23 Aug 2021 09:36:05 -0500
From:   Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@....com>
To:     Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-coco@...ts.linux.dev, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     brijesh.singh@....com, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Joerg Roedel <jroedel@...e.de>,
        Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@....com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@...cent.com>,
        Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Sergio Lopez <slp@...hat.com>, Peter Gonda <pgonda@...gle.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@...ux.intel.com>,
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        Dov Murik <dovmurik@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Tobin Feldman-Fitzthum <tobin@....com>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
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        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>,
        Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>, tony.luck@...el.com,
        marcorr@...gle.com, sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@...ux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH Part2 v5 08/45] x86/fault: Add support to handle the RMP
 fault for user address

Hi Dave,

On 8/23/21 9:20 AM, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 8/20/21 8:58 AM, Brijesh Singh wrote:
>> +static int handle_split_page_fault(struct vm_fault *vmf)
>> +{
>> +	if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT))
>> +		return VM_FAULT_SIGBUS;
>> +
>> +	__split_huge_pmd(vmf->vma, vmf->pmd, vmf->address, false, NULL);
>> +	return 0;
>> +}
> 
> We had a whole conversation the last time this was posted about huge
> page types *other* than THP.  I don't see any comprehension of those
> types or what would happen if one of those was used with SEV-SNP.
> 
> What was the result of those review comments?
> 

Based on previous review comments Sean was not keen on KVM having 
perform this detection and abort the guest SEV-SNP VM launch. So, I 
didn't implemented the check and waiting for more discussion before 
going at it.

SEV-SNP guest requires the VMM to register the guest backing pages 
before the VM launch. Personally, I would prefer KVM to check the 
backing page type during the registration and fail to register if its 
hugetlbfs (and others) to avoid us get into situation where we could not 
split the hugepage.

thanks

> I'm still worried that hugetlbfs (and others) are not properly handled
> by this series.
>