On Wed, 25 Jan 2023 17:22:08 +0000
Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2023, Zhi Wang wrote:
> > On Thu, 12 Jan 2023 08:31:38 -0800
> > isaku.yamahata@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> > This refactor patch is quite hacky.
> >
> > Why not change the purpose of vcpu->arch.mmu_shadow_page.gfp_zero and let the
> > callers respect that the initial value of spte can be configurable? It will be
> > generic and not TDX-specific, then kvm_init_shadow_page() is not required,
> > mmu_topup_shadow_page_cache() can be left un-touched as the refactor can cover
> > other architectures.
> >
> > 1) Let it store the expected nonpresent value and rename it to nonpresent_spte.
>
>
> I agree that handling this in the common code would be cleaner, but repurposing
> gfp_zero gets kludgy because it would require a magic value to say "don't initialize
> the data", e.g. x86's mmu_shadowed_info_cache isn't pre-filled.
>
> And supporting a custom 64-bit init value for kmem_cache-backed caches would require
> restricting such caches to be a multiple of 8 bytes in size.
>
> How about this? Lightly tested.
>
> From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2023 16:55:01 +0000
> Subject: [PATCH] KVM: Allow page-sized MMU caches to be initialized with
> custom 64-bit values
>
It looks good enough so far although it only supports 64bit init value. But
it can be extended in the future.
Just want to make sure people are thinking the same:
1) Keep the changes of SHADOW_NONPRESENT_VALUE and REMOVED_SPTE in TDX patch.
init_value stays as a generic feature in the kvm mmu cache layer. It is *not*
going to replace SHADOW_NONPRESENT_VALUE.
2) TDX kvm_x86_vcpu_create sets the SHADOW_NONPRESENT value into init_value.
3) mmu cache topping up function initializes the page according to init_value
with Sean's patch.
> Add support to MMU caches for initializing a page with a custom 64-bit
> value, e.g. to pre-fill an entire page table with non-zero PTE values.
> The functionality will be used by x86 to support Intel's TDX, which needs
> to set bit 63 in all non-present PTEs in order to prevent !PRESENT page
> faults from getting reflected into the guest (Intel's EPT Violation #VE
> architecture made the less than brilliant decision of having the per-PTE
> behavior be opt-out instead of opt-in).
>
> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/linux/kvm_types.h | 1 +
> virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 16 ++++++++++++++--
> 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/kvm_types.h b/include/linux/kvm_types.h
> index 76de36e56cdf..67972db17b55 100644
> --- a/include/linux/kvm_types.h
> +++ b/include/linux/kvm_types.h
> @@ -94,6 +94,7 @@ struct kvm_mmu_memory_cache {
> int nobjs;
> gfp_t gfp_zero;
> gfp_t gfp_custom;
> + u64 init_value;
> struct kmem_cache *kmem_cache;
> int capacity;
> void **objects;
> diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> index d255964ec331..78f1e49179a7 100644
> --- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> +++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> @@ -380,12 +380,17 @@ static void kvm_flush_shadow_all(struct kvm *kvm)
> static inline void *mmu_memory_cache_alloc_obj(struct kvm_mmu_memory_cache *mc,
> gfp_t gfp_flags)
> {
> + void *page;
> +
> gfp_flags |= mc->gfp_zero;
>
> if (mc->kmem_cache)
> return kmem_cache_alloc(mc->kmem_cache, gfp_flags);
> - else
> - return (void *)__get_free_page(gfp_flags);
> +
> + page = (void *)__get_free_page(gfp_flags);
> + if (page && mc->init_value)
> + memset64(page, mc->init_value, PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(mc->init_value));
> + return page;
> }
>
> int __kvm_mmu_topup_memory_cache(struct kvm_mmu_memory_cache *mc, int capacity, int min)
> @@ -400,6 +405,13 @@ int __kvm_mmu_topup_memory_cache(struct kvm_mmu_memory_cache *mc, int capacity,
> if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!capacity))
> return -EIO;
>
> + /*
> + * Custom init values can be used only for page allocations,
> + * and obviously conflict with __GFP_ZERO.
> + */
> + if (WARN_ON_ONCE(mc->init_value && (mc->kmem_cache || mc->gfp_zero)))
> + return -EIO;
> +
> mc->objects = kvmalloc_array(sizeof(void *), capacity, gfp);
> if (!mc->objects)
> return -ENOMEM;
>
> base-commit: 503f0315c97739d3f8e645c500d81757dfbf76be
