Re: [PATCH v10 16/50] x86/sev: Introduce snp leaked pages list

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Hello Vlastimil,

On 12/11/2023 7:08 AM, Vlastimil Babka wrote:


On 12/8/23 23:10, Kalra, Ashish wrote:
Hello Vlastimil,

On 12/7/2023 10:20 AM, Vlastimil Babka wrote:

+
+void snp_leak_pages(u64 pfn, unsigned int npages)
+{
+    struct page *page = pfn_to_page(pfn);
+
+    pr_debug("%s: leaking PFN range 0x%llx-0x%llx\n", __func__, pfn,
pfn + npages);
+
+    spin_lock(&snp_leaked_pages_list_lock);
+    while (npages--) {
+        /*
+         * Reuse the page's buddy list for chaining into the leaked
+         * pages list. This page should not be on a free list currently
+         * and is also unsafe to be added to a free list.
+         */
+        list_add_tail(&page->buddy_list, &snp_leaked_pages_list);
+        sev_dump_rmpentry(pfn);
+        pfn++;

You increment pfn, but not page, which is always pointing to the page
of the
initial pfn, so need to do page++ too.

Yes, that is a bug and needs to be fixed.

But that assumes it's all order-0 pages (hard to tell for me whether
that's
true as we start with a pfn), if there can be compound pages, it would be
best to only add the head page and skip the tail pages - it's not
expected
to use page->buddy_list of tail pages.

Can't we use PageCompound() to check if the page is a compound page and
then use page->compound_head to get and add the head page to leaked
pages list. I understand the tail pages for compound pages are really
limited for usage.

Yeah that should work. Need to be careful though, should probably only
process head pages and check if the whole compound_order() is within the
range we are to leak, and then leak the head page and advance the loop
by compound_order(). And if we encounter a tail page, it should probably
be just skipped. I'm looking at snp_reclaim_pages() which seems to
process a number of pages with SEV_CMD_SNP_PAGE_RECLAIM and once any
fails, call snp_leak_pages() on the rest. Could that invoke
snp_leak_pages with the first pfn being a tail page?

Yes i don't think we can assume that the first pfn will not be a tail page. But then this becomes complex as we might have already reclaimed the head page and one or more tail pages successfully or probably never transitioned head page to FW state as alloc_page()/alloc_pages() would have returned subpage(s) of a largepage.

But then we really can't use the buddy_list of a tail page to insert it in the snp leaked pages list, right ?

These non-reclaimed pages are not usable anymore anyway, any access to them will cause fatal RMP #PF, so don't know if i can use the buddy_list to insert tail pages as that will corrupt the page metadata ?

We initially used to invoke memory_failure() here to try to gracefully handle failure of these non-reclaimed pages and that used to handle hugepages, etc., but as pointed in previous review feedback that is not a logical approach for this as that's meant more for the RAS stuff.

Maybe it is a simpler approach to have our own container object on top and have this page pointer and list_head in it and use that list_head to insert into the snp leaked list instead of re-using the buddy_list for chaining into the leaked pages list ?

Thanks,
Ashish





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