[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]
Message-ID: <20230814190355.GA2672897@ls.amr.corp.intel.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2023 12:03:55 -0700
From: Isaku Yamahata <isaku.yamahata@...il.com>
To: Dexuan Cui <decui@...rosoft.com>
Cc: x86@...nel.org, ak@...ux.intel.com, arnd@...db.de, bp@...en8.de,
brijesh.singh@....com, dan.j.williams@...el.com,
dave.hansen@...el.com, dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com,
haiyangz@...rosoft.com, hpa@...or.com, jane.chu@...cle.com,
kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com, kys@...rosoft.com,
luto@...nel.org, mingo@...hat.com, peterz@...radead.org,
rostedt@...dmis.org, sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@...ux.intel.com,
seanjc@...gle.com, tglx@...utronix.de, tony.luck@...el.com,
wei.liu@...nel.org, Jason@...c4.com, nik.borisov@...e.com,
mikelley@...rosoft.com, linux-hyperv@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Tianyu.Lan@...rosoft.com,
rick.p.edgecombe@...el.com, andavis@...hat.com, mheslin@...hat.com,
vkuznets@...hat.com, xiaoyao.li@...el.com, isaku.yamahata@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 1/2] x86/tdx: Retry partially-completed page
conversion hypercalls
On Fri, Aug 11, 2023 at 02:48:25PM -0700,
Dexuan Cui <decui@...rosoft.com> wrote:
> TDX guest memory is private by default and the VMM may not access it.
> However, in cases where the guest needs to share data with the VMM,
> the guest and the VMM can coordinate to make memory shared between
> them.
>
> The guest side of this protocol includes the "MapGPA" hypercall. This
> call takes a guest physical address range. The hypercall spec (aka.
> the GHCI) says that the MapGPA call is allowed to return partial
> progress in mapping this range and indicate that fact with a special
> error code. A guest that sees such partial progress is expected to
> retry the operation for the portion of the address range that was not
> completed.
>
> Hyper-V does this partial completion dance when set_memory_decrypted()
> is called to "decrypt" swiotlb bounce buffers that can be up to 1GB
> in size. It is evidently the only VMM that does this, which is why
> nobody noticed this until now.
Now TDX KVM + TDX qemu supports partial completion because TD guest can pass
very large range. e.g. 1GB order. I tested this patch with (patched) TDX
KVM/qemu.
Reviewed-by: Isaku Yamahata <isaku.yamahata@...el.com>
Tested-by: Isaku Yamahata <isaku.yamahata@...el.com>
--
Isaku Yamahata <isaku.yamahata@...il.com>
Powered by blists - more mailing lists