linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v9 1/2] x86/tdx: Retry TDVMCALL_MAP

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Date:   Wed, 19 Jul 2023 10:31:06 +0800
From:   Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@...el.com>
To:     Dexuan Cui <decui@...rosoft.com>, ak@...ux.intel.com,
        arnd@...db.de, bp@...en8.de, brijesh.singh@....com,
        dan.j.williams@...el.com, dave.hansen@...el.com,
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        jane.chu@...cle.com, kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com,
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Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Tianyu.Lan@...rosoft.com,
        rick.p.edgecombe@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 1/2] x86/tdx: Retry TDVMCALL_MAP_GPA() when needed

On 6/22/2023 3:13 AM, Dexuan Cui wrote:
> GHCI spec for TDX 1.0 says that the MapGPA call may fail with the R10
> error code = TDG.VP.VMCALL_RETRY (1), and the guest must retry this
> operation for the pages in the region starting at the GPA specified
> in R11.
> 
> When a fully enlightened TDX guest runs on Hyper-V, Hyper-V can return
> the retry error when set_memory_decrypted() is called to decrypt up to
> 1GB of swiotlb bounce buffers.

just out of curiosity, what size does Hyper-v handle at most in one call?