On Tue, 2023-01-10 at 07:19 -0800, Dave Hansen wrote: > On 1/10/23 03:01, Huang, Kai wrote: > > On Mon, 2023-01-09 at 17:22 -0800, Dave Hansen wrote: > > > On 1/9/23 17:19, Huang, Kai wrote: > > > > > It's probably also worth noting *somewhere* that there's a balance to be > > > > > had between TDMRs and reserved areas. A system that is running out of > > > > > reserved areas in a TDMR could split a TDMR to get more reserved areas. > > > > > A system that has run out of TDMRs could relatively easily coalesce two > > > > > adjacent TDMRs (before the PAMTs are allocated) and use a reserved area > > > > > if there was a gap between them. > > > > We can add above to the changelog of this patch, or the patch 09 ("x86/virt/tdx: > > > > Fill out TDMRs to cover all TDX memory regions"). The latter perhaps is better > > > > since that patch is the first place where the balance of TDMRs and reserved > > > > areas is related. > > > > > > > > What is your suggestion? > > > Just put it close to the code that actually hits the problem so the > > > potential solution is close at hand to whoever hits the problem. > > > > > Sorry to double check: the code which hits the problem is the 'if (idx >= > > max_reserved_per_tdmr)' check in tdmr_add_rsvd_area(), so I think I can add > > right before this check? > > Please just hack together how you think it should look and either reply > with an updated patch, or paste the relevant code snippet in your reply. > That'll keep me from having to go chase this code back down. > Thanks for the tip. How about below? static int tdmr_add_rsvd_area(struct tdmr_info *tdmr, int *p_idx, u64 addr, u64 size, u16 max_reserved_per_tdmr) { struct tdmr_reserved_area *rsvd_areas = tdmr->reserved_areas; int idx = *p_idx; /* Reserved area must be 4K aligned in offset and size */ if (WARN_ON(addr & ~PAGE_MASK || size & ~PAGE_MASK)) return -EINVAL; /* * The TDX module supports only limited number of TDMRs and * limited number of reserved areas for each TDMR. There's a * balance to be had between TDMRs and reserved areas. A system * that is running out of reserved areas in a TDMR could split a * TDMR to get more reserved areas. A system that has run out * of TDMRs could relatively easily coalesce two adjacent TDMRs * (before the PAMTs are allocated) and use a reserved area if * there was a gap between them. */ if (idx >= max_reserved_per_tdmr) { pr_warn("too many reserved areas for TDMR [0x%llx, 0x%llx)\n", tdmr->base, tdmr_end(tdmr)); return -ENOSPC; } /* * Consume one reserved area per call. Make no effort to * optimize or reduce the number of reserved areas which are * consumed by contiguous reserved areas, for instance. */ rsvd_areas[idx].offset = addr - tdmr->base; rsvd_areas[idx].size = size; *p_idx = idx + 1; return 0; }