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Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2022 22:33:37 +0000 From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com> To: Chao Peng <chao.p.peng@...ux.intel.com> Cc: kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-api@...r.kernel.org, qemu-devel@...gnu.org, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, 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>, x86@...nel.org, "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>, Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>, "J . Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Mike Rapoport <rppt@...nel.org>, Steven Price <steven.price@....com>, "Maciej S . Szmigiero" <mail@...iej.szmigiero.name>, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>, Vishal Annapurve <vannapurve@...gle.com>, Yu Zhang <yu.c.zhang@...ux.intel.com>, "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>, luto@...nel.org, jun.nakajima@...el.com, dave.hansen@...el.com, ak@...ux.intel.com, david@...hat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 07/13] KVM: Add KVM_EXIT_MEMORY_ERROR exit On Thu, Mar 10, 2022, Chao Peng wrote: > This new KVM exit allows userspace to handle memory-related errors. It > indicates an error happens in KVM at guest memory range [gpa, gpa+size). > The flags includes additional information for userspace to handle the > error. Currently bit 0 is defined as 'private memory' where '1' > indicates error happens due to private memory access and '0' indicates > error happens due to shared memory access. > > After private memory is enabled, this new exit will be used for KVM to > exit to userspace for shared memory <-> private memory conversion in > memory encryption usage. > > In such usage, typically there are two kind of memory conversions: > - explicit conversion: happens when guest explicitly calls into KVM to > map a range (as private or shared), KVM then exits to userspace to > do the map/unmap operations. > - implicit conversion: happens in KVM page fault handler. > * if the fault is due to a private memory access then causes a > userspace exit for a shared->private conversion request when the > page has not been allocated in the private memory backend. > * If the fault is due to a shared memory access then causes a > userspace exit for a private->shared conversion request when the > page has already been allocated in the private memory backend. > > Signed-off-by: Yu Zhang <yu.c.zhang@...ux.intel.com> > Signed-off-by: Chao Peng <chao.p.peng@...ux.intel.com> > --- > Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ > include/uapi/linux/kvm.h | 9 +++++++++ > 2 files changed, 31 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst > index f76ac598606c..bad550c2212b 100644 > --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst > +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst > @@ -6216,6 +6216,28 @@ array field represents return values. The userspace should update the return > values of SBI call before resuming the VCPU. For more details on RISC-V SBI > spec refer, https://github.com/riscv/riscv-sbi-doc. > > +:: > + > + /* KVM_EXIT_MEMORY_ERROR */ > + struct { > + #define KVM_MEMORY_EXIT_FLAG_PRIVATE (1 << 0) > + __u32 flags; > + __u32 padding; > + __u64 gpa; > + __u64 size; > + } memory; > +If exit reason is KVM_EXIT_MEMORY_ERROR then it indicates that the VCPU has Doh, I'm pretty sure I suggested KVM_EXIT_MEMORY_ERROR. Any objection to using KVM_EXIT_MEMORY_FAULT instead of KVM_EXIT_MEMORY_ERROR? "ERROR" makes me think of ECC errors, i.e. uncorrected #MC in x86 land, not more generic "faults". That would align nicely with -EFAULT. > +encountered a memory error which is not handled by KVM kernel module and > +userspace may choose to handle it. The 'flags' field indicates the memory > +properties of the exit.
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