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Date:   Thu, 31 Aug 2023 11:50:20 -0500
From:   "Kalra, Ashish" <ashish.kalra@....com>
To:     Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
Cc:     Mingwei Zhang <mizhang@...gle.com>, Jacky Li <jackyli@...gle.com>,
        isaku.yamahata@...el.com, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, isaku.yamahata@...il.com,
        Michael Roth <michael.roth@....com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>, erdemaktas@...gle.com,
        Sagi Shahar <sagis@...gle.com>,
        David Matlack <dmatlack@...gle.com>,
        Kai Huang <kai.huang@...el.com>,
        Zhi Wang <zhi.wang.linux@...il.com>, chen.bo@...el.com,
        linux-coco@...ts.linux.dev,
        Chao Peng <chao.p.peng@...ux.intel.com>,
        Ackerley Tng <ackerleytng@...gle.com>,
        Vishal Annapurve <vannapurve@...gle.com>,
        Yuan Yao <yuan.yao@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@...nel.org>,
        Xu Yilun <yilun.xu@...el.com>,
        Quentin Perret <qperret@...gle.com>, wei.w.wang@...el.com,
        Fuad Tabba <tabba@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/8] KVM: gmem: protect kvm_mmu_invalidate_end()

Hello Sean,

On 8/22/2023 6:17 PM, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 21, 2023, Ashish Kalra wrote:
>> Hello Mingwei & Sean,
>>
>> On 8/18/2023 9:08 PM, Mingwei Zhang wrote:
>> The maximum hits are seen with shmem_fallocate and madvise, which we believe
>> are response to shared<->private
>> GHCB page-state-chage requests. discard=both handles discard both for
>> private and shared memory, so freeing shared memory
>> via fallocate(shared_memfd, FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE, ...) would trigger the
>> notifiers when freeing shared pages after guest converts a GPA to
>> private.
>>
>> Now, as with SNP+guest_memfd, guest private memory is not mapped in host
>> anymore, so i added a generic fix (instead of Sean's proposed patch of
>> checking for SNP guest inside sev_guest_memory_reclaimed()):
>>
>> --- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
>> +++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
>> @@ -593,6 +593,9 @@ static __always_inline int __kvm_handle_hva_range(struct
>> kvm *kvm,
>>                          unsigned long hva_start, hva_end;
>>
>>                          slot = container_of(node, struct kvm_memory_slot,
>> hva_node[slots->node_idx]);
>> +                       if (kvm_slot_can_be_private(slot)) {
>> +                               continue;
>> +                       }
>>                          hva_start = max(range->start, slot->userspace_addr);
>>                          hva_end = min(range->end, slot->userspace_addr +
>>                                                    (slot->npages <<
>> PAGE_SHIFT));
> 
> ...
> 
>> As expected, the SEV hook is not invoked for the guest private memory pages
>> (no more invalidation from shmem_fallocate() + madvise()).
>>
>> Isn't it better to skip invoking the KVM MMU invalidation notifier when the
>> invalidated range belongs to guest private memory ?
> 
> Oooh, you're running into problems where KVM blasts both the private and shared
> mappings even though invalidations from the mmu_notifier are shared-only by
> definition.
> 
> The answer is "yes", but simply skipping slots that _can_ be private is wrong,
> as KVM still needs to zap any shared mappings.  I have a plan[*], but I completely
> spaced on incorporating the idea into the gmem RFC.  I'll add that to the "list
> of todos for merging gmem", which I need to get sent out asap.
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZJX0hk+KpQP0KUyB@google.com

Looking at your gmem TODO's post, i don't see anything specific for this 
support:

https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/ZOjpIL0SFH+E3Dj4@google.com/

Thanks,
Ashish

> 
>>> In fact, AFAIC, SNP VM does not track whether each page is previously
>>> shared, isn't it? If a page was previously shared and was written by the
>>> host kernel or devices before it was changed to private. No one tracks it
>>> and dirty caches are there!
>>
>> The skipped invalidation here covered the case Mingwei mentioned above,
>> where the pages are changed from private->shared and subsequent freeing of
>> shared pages triggered the invalidation.
>>
>> But, then why are we concerned about this, i thought we have concerns about
>> the case where the dirty cache lines contain encrypted guest data ?
> 
> Yes, that's my understanding as well (assuming by "this" you mean the case where
> the CPU cache has dirty lines for _shared_ addresses).
>