linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv10 10/18] x86/tdx: Convert shared memory back to private on kexec

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Date: Wed, 8 May 2024 16:30:17 +0300
From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, 
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>, x86@...nel.org, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>, 
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>, 
	Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan <sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@...ux.intel.com>, Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@...el.com>, 
	Jun Nakajima <jun.nakajima@...el.com>, Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@...el.com>, 
	Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@....com>, "Kalra, Ashish" <ashish.kalra@....com>, 
	Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>, "Huang, Kai" <kai.huang@...el.com>, Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>, 
	kexec@...ts.infradead.org, linux-coco@...ts.linux.dev, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	Tao Liu <ltao@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv10 10/18] x86/tdx: Convert shared memory back to private
 on kexec

On Wed, May 08, 2024 at 02:04:22PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Mon, May 06, 2024 at 06:37:19PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> > "second kernel" is nomenclature kexec folks are using, but okay.
> 
> And the "third kernel" is the one which got kexec-ed the second time?
> 
> You can make it: "The second, kexec-ed kernel" and then it is perfectly
> clear.

Okay.

> > One possible reason for the failure is if kdump raced with memory
> > conversion. In this case shared bit in page table got set (or not cleared
> > form shared->private conversion), but the page is actually private. So
> > this failure is not going to affect the kexec'ed kernel.
> 
> Lemme make sure I understand what you're saying here:
> 
> 1. This is a fatal failure and we should panic
> 
> However,
> 
> 2. the kexec-ed kernel is using a different page table so there won't be
>    a mismatch between shared/private marking of the page so it doesn't
>    matter
> 
> Close?

Yes.

One other point is even if the failure is real and we cannot touch the
page as private, kdump kernel will boot fine as it uses pre-reserved
memory. What happens next depends on what dumping process does. We have
reasonable chance to produce useful dump on crash.

-- 
  Kiryl Shutsemau / Kirill A. Shutemov