linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC v8 00/56] Add AMD Secure Nested Paging (SEV-SNP) Hypervisor Support

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Message-ID: <f2c904f6-996a-e903-5d56-662781567578@intel.com>
Date:   Wed, 1 Mar 2023 08:56:05 -0800
From:   Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v8 00/56] Add AMD Secure Nested Paging (SEV-SNP)
 Hypervisor Support

On 2/20/23 10:37, Michael Roth wrote:
> The RMP check is enforced as soon as SEV-SNP is enabled. Not every memory
> access requires an RMP check. In particular, the read accesses from the
> hypervisor do not require RMP checks because the data confidentiality is
> already protected via memory encryption. When hardware encounters an RMP
> checks failure, it raises a page-fault exception. If RMP check failure
> is due to the page-size mismatch, then split the large page to resolve
> the fault.

What does this all _mean_?

When does the kernel need to care about a "page-size mismatch"?