linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3 V7] KVM, SEV: Add support for SEV intra host migration

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Date:   Fri, 10 Sep 2021 01:12:35 +0000
From:   Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
To:     Peter Gonda <pgonda@...gle.com>
Cc:     kvm@...r.kernel.org, Marc Orr <marcorr@...gle.com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        "Dr . David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@...hat.com>,
        Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@....com>,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@...cent.com>,
        Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3 V7] KVM, SEV: Add support for SEV intra host migration

On Fri, Sep 10, 2021, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> Ooh, this brings up a potential shortcoming of requiring @dst to be SEV-enabled.
> If every SEV{-ES} ASID is allocated, then there won't be an available ASID to
> (temporarily) allocate for the intra-host migration.  But that temporary ASID
> isn't actually necessary, i.e. there's no reason intra-host migration should fail
> if all ASIDs are in-use.

...

> So I think the only option is to take vcpu->mutex for all vCPUs in both @src and
> @dst.  Adding that after acquiring kvm->lock in svm_sev_lock_for_migration()
> should Just Work.  Unless userspace is misbehaving, the lock won't be contended
> since all vCPUs need to be quiesced, though it's probably worth using the
> mutex_lock_killable() variant just to be safe.

Circling back to this after looking at the SEV-ES support, I think the vCPUs in
the source VM need to be reset via kvm_vcpu_reset(vcpu, false).  I doubt there's
a use case for actually doing anything with the vCPU, but leaving it runnable
without purging state makes me nervous.

Alternative #1 would be to mark vCPUs as dead in some way so as to prevent doing
anything useful with the vCPU.

Alternative #2 would be to "kill" the source VM by setting kvm->vm_bugged to
prevent all ioctls().

The downside to preventing future ioctls() is that this would need to be the
very last step of migration.  Not sure if that's problematic?