linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v11 08/20] x86/virt/tdx: Get information about TDX module and TDX-capable memory

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Date:   Wed, 7 Jun 2023 08:25:35 -0700
From:   Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
To:     Kai Huang <kai.huang@...el.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kvm@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com,
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        len.brown@...el.com, ak@...ux.intel.com, isaku.yamahata@...el.com,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 08/20] x86/virt/tdx: Get information about TDX module
 and TDX-capable memory

On 6/4/23 07:27, Kai Huang wrote:
> Start to transit out the "multi-steps" to initialize the TDX module.
> 
> TDX provides increased levels of memory confidentiality and integrity.
> This requires special hardware support for features like memory
> encryption and storage of memory integrity checksums.  Not all memory
> satisfies these requirements.
> 
> As a result, TDX introduced the concept of a "Convertible Memory Region"
> (CMR).  During boot, the firmware builds a list of all of the memory
> ranges which can provide the TDX security guarantees.
> 
> CMRs tell the kernel which memory is TDX compatible.  The kernel takes
> CMRs (plus a little more metadata) and constructs "TD Memory Regions"
> (TDMRs).  TDMRs let the kernel grant TDX protections to some or all of
> the CMR areas.
> 
> The TDX module also reports necessary information to let the kernel
> build TDMRs and run TDX guests in structure 'tdsysinfo_struct'.  The
> list of CMRs, along with the TDX module information, is available to
> the kernel by querying the TDX module.
> 
> As a preparation to construct TDMRs, get the TDX module information and
> the list of CMRs.  Print out CMRs to help user to decode which memory
> regions are TDX convertible.
> 
> The 'tdsysinfo_struct' is fairly large (1024 bytes) and contains a lot
> of info about the TDX module.  Fully define the entire structure, but
> only use the fields necessary to build the TDMRs and pr_info() some
> basics about the module.  The rest of the fields will get used by KVM.
> 
> For now both 'tdsysinfo_struct' and CMRs are only used during the module
> initialization.  But because they are both relatively big, declare them
> inside the module initialization function but as static variables.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kai Huang <kai.huang@...el.com>
> Reviewed-by: Isaku Yamahata <isaku.yamahata@...el.com>

Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>