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Message-ID: <b3ce0855-0e4b-782a-599c-26590df948dd@amd.com>
Date:   Fri, 24 Jun 2022 09:28:23 +0530
From:   "Nikunj A. Dadhania" <nikunj@....com>
To:     Chao Peng <chao.p.peng@...ux.intel.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-api@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, qemu-devel@...gnu.org
Cc:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.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>,
        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, aarcange@...hat.com,
        ddutile@...hat.com, dhildenb@...hat.com,
        Quentin Perret <qperret@...gle.com>,
        Michael Roth <michael.roth@....com>, mhocko@...e.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 6/8] KVM: Handle page fault for private memory

On 5/19/2022 9:07 PM, Chao Peng wrote:
> A page fault can carry the information of whether the access if private
> or not for KVM_MEM_PRIVATE memslot, this can be filled by architecture
> code(like TDX code). To handle page faut for such access, KVM maps the
> page only when this private property matches host's view on this page
> which can be decided by checking whether the corresponding page is
> populated in the private fd or not. A page is considered as private when
> the page is populated in the private fd, otherwise it's shared.
> 
> For a successful match, private pfn is obtained with memfile_notifier
> callbacks from private fd and shared pfn is obtained with existing
> get_user_pages.
> 
> For a failed match, KVM causes a KVM_EXIT_MEMORY_FAULT exit to
> userspace. Userspace then can convert memory between private/shared from
> host's view then retry the access.
> 
> Co-developed-by: Yu Zhang <yu.c.zhang@...ux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Yu Zhang <yu.c.zhang@...ux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Chao Peng <chao.p.peng@...ux.intel.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kvm/mmu.h              |  1 +
>  arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c          | 70 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu_internal.h | 17 ++++++++
>  arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmutrace.h     |  1 +
>  arch/x86/kvm/mmu/paging_tmpl.h  |  5 ++-
>  include/linux/kvm_host.h        | 22 +++++++++++
>  6 files changed, 112 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.h b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.h
> index 7e258cc94152..c84835762249 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.h
> @@ -176,6 +176,7 @@ struct kvm_page_fault {
>  
>  	/* Derived from mmu and global state.  */
>  	const bool is_tdp;
> +	const bool is_private;
>  	const bool nx_huge_page_workaround_enabled;
>  
>  	/*
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
> index afe18d70ece7..e18460e0d743 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
> @@ -2899,6 +2899,9 @@ int kvm_mmu_max_mapping_level(struct kvm *kvm,
>  	if (max_level == PG_LEVEL_4K)
>  		return PG_LEVEL_4K;
>  
> +	if (kvm_slot_is_private(slot))
> +		return max_level;

Can you explain the rationale behind the above change? 
AFAIU, this overrides the transparent_hugepage=never setting for both 
shared and private mappings.

>  	host_level = host_pfn_mapping_level(kvm, gfn, pfn, slot);
>  	return min(host_level, max_level);
>  }

Regards
Nikunj

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