Re: [RFC PATCH v2 26/32] kvm: svm: Add support for SEV LAUNCH_UPDATE_DATA command

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On 03/16/2017 05:48 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:


On 02/03/2017 16:17, Brijesh Singh wrote:
+static struct page **sev_pin_memory(unsigned long uaddr, unsigned long ulen,
+				    unsigned long *n)
+{
+	struct page **pages;
+	int first, last;
+	unsigned long npages, pinned;
+
+	/* Get number of pages */
+	first = (uaddr & PAGE_MASK) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+	last = ((uaddr + ulen - 1) & PAGE_MASK) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+	npages = (last - first + 1);
+
+	pages = kzalloc(npages * sizeof(struct page *), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!pages)
+		return NULL;
+
+	/* pin the user virtual address */
+	down_read(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
+	pinned = get_user_pages_fast(uaddr, npages, 1, pages);
+	up_read(&current->mm->mmap_sem);

get_user_pages_fast, like get_user_pages_unlocked, must be called
without mmap_sem held.

Sure.


+	if (pinned != npages) {
+		printk(KERN_ERR "SEV: failed to pin  %ld pages (got %ld)\n",
+				npages, pinned);
+		goto err;
+	}
+
+	*n = npages;
+	return pages;
+err:
+	if (pinned > 0)
+		release_pages(pages, pinned, 0);
+	kfree(pages);
+
+	return NULL;
+}

+	/* the array of pages returned by get_user_pages() is a page-aligned
+	 * memory. Since the user buffer is probably not page-aligned, we need
+	 * to calculate the offset within a page for first update entry.
+	 */
+	offset = uaddr & (PAGE_SIZE - 1);
+	len = min_t(size_t, (PAGE_SIZE - offset), ulen);
+	ulen -= len;
+
+	/* update first page -
+	 * special care need to be taken for the first page because we might
+	 * be dealing with offset within the page
+	 */

No need to special case the first page; just set "offset = 0" inside the
loop after the first iteration.


Will do.

-Brijesh
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