On Fri, Jan 5, 2024 at 8:51 AM Zack Rusin <zack.rusin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Some drivers require the mapped tt pages to be decrypted. In an ideal > world this would have been handled by the dma layer, but the TTM page > fault handling would have to be rewritten to able to do that. > > A side-effect of the TTM page fault handling is using a dma allocation > per order (via ttm_pool_alloc_page) which makes it impossible to just > trivially use dma_mmap_attrs. As a result ttm has to be very careful > about trying to make its pgprot for the mapped tt pages match what > the dma layer thinks it is. At the ttm layer it's possible to > deduce the requirement to have tt pages decrypted by checking > whether coherent dma allocations have been requested and the system > is running with confidential computing technologies. > > This approach isn't ideal but keeping TTM matching DMAs expectations > for the page properties is in general fragile, unfortunately proper > fix would require a rewrite of TTM's page fault handling. > > Fixes vmwgfx with SEV enabled. > > v2: Explicitly include cc_platform.h > v3: Use CC_ATTR_GUEST_MEM_ENCRYPT instead of CC_ATTR_MEM_ENCRYPT to > limit the scope to guests and log when memory decryption is enabled. Hi, Christian. Gentle ping on that one. This is probably the cleanest we can get this code. Can we land this or is there anything else you'd like to see? z
