linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v9 1/8] mm: Introduce memfd_restricted system call to create restricted user memory

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Date:   Thu, 3 Nov 2022 19:30:12 +0300
From:   "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>
To:     Michael Roth <michael.roth@....com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 1/8] mm: Introduce memfd_restricted system call to
 create restricted user memory

On Wed, Nov 02, 2022 at 05:07:00PM -0500, Michael Roth wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 03, 2022 at 12:14:04AM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 12:47:38PM -0500, Michael Roth wrote:
> > > 
> > > In v8 there was some discussion about potentially passing the page/folio
> > > and order as part of the invalidation callback, I ended up needing
> > > something similar for SEV-SNP, and think it might make sense for other
> > > platforms. This main reasoning is:
> > > 
> > >   1) restoring kernel directmap:
> > > 
> > >      Currently SNP (and I believe TDX) need to either split or remove kernel
> > >      direct mappings for restricted PFNs, since there is no guarantee that
> > >      other PFNs within a 2MB range won't be used for non-restricted
> > >      (which will cause an RMP #PF in the case of SNP since the 2MB
> > >      mapping overlaps with guest-owned pages)
> > 
> > That's news to me. Where the restriction for SNP comes from?
> 
> Sorry, missed your first question.
> 
> For SNP at least, the restriction is documented in APM Volume 2, Section
> 15.36.10, First row of Table 15-36 (preceeding paragraph has more
> context). I forgot to mention this is only pertaining to writes by the
> host to 2MB pages that contain guest-owned subpages, for reads it's
> not an issue, but I think the implementation requirements end up being
> the same either way:
> 
>   https://www.amd.com/system/files/TechDocs/24593.pdf

Looks like you wanted restricted memfd to be backed by secretmem rather
then normal memfd. It would help preserve directmap.

-- 
  Kiryl Shutsemau / Kirill A. Shutemov