linux-kernel - [PULL 15/19] KVM: SEV: Avoid WBINVD for HVA-based MMU notifications for SNP

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Message-ID: <20240510211024.556136-16-michael.roth@amd.com>
Date: Fri, 10 May 2024 16:10:20 -0500
From: Michael Roth <michael.roth@....com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
CC: <kvm@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Sean Christopherson
	<seanjc@...gle.com>, Ashish Kalra <ashish.kalra@....com>
Subject: [PULL 15/19] KVM: SEV: Avoid WBINVD for HVA-based MMU notifications for SNP

From: Ashish Kalra <ashish.kalra@....com>

With SNP/guest_memfd, private/encrypted memory should not be mappable,
and MMU notifications for HVA-mapped memory will only be relevant to
unencrypted guest memory. Therefore, the rationale behind issuing a
wbinvd_on_all_cpus() in sev_guest_memory_reclaimed() should not apply
for SNP guests and can be ignored.

Signed-off-by: Ashish Kalra <ashish.kalra@....com>
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
[mdr: Add some clarifications in commit]
Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <michael.roth@....com>
Message-ID: <20240501085210.2213060-17-michael.roth@....com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c
index d603c97493b9..2b88ae9a4f48 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c
@@ -3039,7 +3039,13 @@ static void sev_flush_encrypted_page(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, void *va)
 
 void sev_guest_memory_reclaimed(struct kvm *kvm)
 {
-	if (!sev_guest(kvm))
+	/*
+	 * With SNP+gmem, private/encrypted memory is unreachable via the
+	 * hva-based mmu notifiers, so these events are only actually
+	 * pertaining to shared pages where there is no need to perform
+	 * the WBINVD to flush associated caches.
+	 */
+	if (!sev_guest(kvm) || sev_snp_guest(kvm))
 		return;
 
 	wbinvd_on_all_cpus();
-- 
2.25.1