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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH 0/8] KVM: x86/mmu: Introduce pinned SPTEs framework
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Sean,
What commit did you base your series on?
Thanks.

-evt(Eric van Tassell)

On 7/31/20 4:23 PM, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> SEV currently needs to pin guest memory as it doesn't support migrating
> encrypted pages. Introduce a framework in KVM's MMU to support pinning
> pages on demand without requiring additional memory allocations, and with
> (somewhat hazy) line of sight toward supporting more advanced features for
> encrypted guest memory, e.g. host page migration.
>
> The idea is to use a software available bit in the SPTE to track that a
> page has been pinned. The decision to pin a page and the actual pinning
> managment is handled by vendor code via kvm_x86_ops hooks. There are
> intentionally two hooks (zap and unzap) introduced that are not needed for
> SEV. I included them to again show how the flag (probably renamed?) could
> be used for more than just pin/unpin.
>
> Bugs in the core implementation are pretty much guaranteed. The basic
> concept has been tested, but in a fairly different incarnation. Most
> notably, tagging PRESENT SPTEs as PINNED has not been tested, although
> using the PINNED flag to track zapped (and known to be pinned) SPTEs has
> been tested. I cobbled this variation together fairly quickly to get the
> code out there for discussion.
>
> The last patch to pin SEV pages during sev_launch_update_data() is
> incomplete; it's there to show how we might leverage MMU-based pinning to
> support pinning pages before the guest is live.
>
> Sean Christopherson (8):
> KVM: x86/mmu: Return old SPTE from mmu_spte_clear_track_bits()
> KVM: x86/mmu: Use bits 2:0 to check for present SPTEs
> KVM: x86/mmu: Refactor handling of not-present SPTEs in mmu_set_spte()
> KVM: x86/mmu: Add infrastructure for pinning PFNs on demand
> KVM: SVM: Use the KVM MMU SPTE pinning hooks to pin pages on demand
> KVM: x86/mmu: Move 'pfn' variable to caller of direct_page_fault()
> KVM: x86/mmu: Introduce kvm_mmu_map_tdp_page() for use by SEV
> KVM: SVM: Pin SEV pages in MMU during sev_launch_update_data()
>
> arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 7 ++
> arch/x86/kvm/mmu.h | 3 +
> arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c | 186 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
> arch/x86/kvm/mmu/paging_tmpl.h | 3 +-
> arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c | 141 +++++++++++++++++++++++-
> arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c | 3 +
> arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h | 3 +
> 7 files changed, 302 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)
>

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