Re: [PATCH] virtio_ring: use DMA when memory encryption is active

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On 2020/10/23 下午5:00, Sebastian Hofmann wrote:
Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> hat am 22.10.2020 13:39 geschrieben:

On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 05:14:25PM +0200, Sebastian Hofmann wrote:
virtio_ring does not work with active memory encryption because the host cannot read it. Fix this by enforcing the use of DMA which uses shared (unencrypted) memory pages.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Hofmann <sebastian@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Sorry, no.
host which can not access all of driver memory must set VIRTIO_F_ACCESS_PLATFORM.

Not worth it to work around broken hosts.

Xen is an exception we carry around since it predates the
introduction of VIRTIO_F_ACCESS_PLATFORM.


Thanks for pointing out VIRTIO_F_ACCESS_PLATFORM which I was not aware of. Maybe that patch was a bit naïve.

Basically I'm looking for a way to use vsock with qemu on AMD SEV. When I try to use IOMMU for vsock I get an EOPNOTSUPP out of vhost_vsock_set_features.

Is there a reason why vhost_vsock_set_features doesn't use vhost_init_device_iotlb as done in the net device?


It's just because it has been implemented. In addition to implement IOTLB, the virtio-vsock-pci must advertise ATS capability as well.


Because that would have been my next attempt.
I would appreciate a short comment on this idea or a recommendation for another solution that is better than the patch below.


A question, is vIOMMU a must for making SEV work?

Thanks



---
  drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c | 5 +++++
  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
index becc77697960..8c68c475ec21 100644
--- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
+++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
  #include <linux/hrtimer.h>
  #include <linux/dma-mapping.h>
  #include <xen/xen.h>
+#include <linux/mem_encrypt.h>
#ifdef DEBUG
  /* For development, we want to crash whenever the ring is screwed. */
@@ -255,6 +256,10 @@ static bool vring_use_dma_api(struct virtio_device *vdev)
  	if (xen_domain())
  		return true;
+ /* Memory encryption requires DMA */
+	if (mem_encrypt_active())
+		return true;
+
  	return false;
  }
--
2.25.1

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