linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 09/10] KVM: x86/mmu: Use PFERR_GUEST_ENC

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Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2024 16:07:04 -0700
From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org, 
	isaku.yamahata@...el.com, xiaoyao.li@...el.com, binbin.wu@...ux.intel.com, 
	chao.gao@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 09/10] KVM: x86/mmu: Use PFERR_GUEST_ENC_MASK to
 indicate fault is private

On Tue, Apr 16, 2024, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> SEV-SNP defines PFERR_GUEST_ENC_MASK (bit 34) in page-fault error bits to
> represent the guest page is encrypted.  Use the bit to designate that the
> page fault is private and that it requires looking up memory attributes.
> 
> The vendor kvm page fault handler should set PFERR_GUEST_ENC_MASK bit based
> on their fault information.  It may or may not use the hardware value
> directly or parse the hardware value to set the bit.
> 
> Based on a patch by Isaku Yamahata.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>

I would also prefer this one be dropped in favor of PFERR_PRIVATE_ACCESS.  Ah,
I assume that's your plan, as you have d8783aeebd40 ("[TO SQUASH] KVM: x86/mmu:
Use synthetic page fault error code to indicate private faults") in kvm-coco-queue.