From: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
To: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>, Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>,
"Edgecombe, Rick P" <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>,
"Kleen, Andi" <andi.kleen@intel.com>,
x86@kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>,
Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>, Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC 02/16] x86/kvm: Introduce KVM memory protection feature
Date: Tue, 26 May 2020 22:03:50 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200527050350.GK31696@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200525151525.qmfvzxbl7sq46cdq@box>
On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 06:15:25PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 04:58:51PM +0200, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
> > > @@ -727,6 +734,15 @@ static void __init kvm_init_platform(void)
> > > {
> > > kvmclock_init();
> > > x86_platform.apic_post_init = kvm_apic_init;
> > > +
> > > + if (kvm_para_has_feature(KVM_FEATURE_MEM_PROTECTED)) {
> > > + if (kvm_hypercall0(KVM_HC_ENABLE_MEM_PROTECTED)) {
> > > + pr_err("Failed to enable KVM memory protection\n");
> > > + return;
> > > + }
> > > +
> > > + mem_protected = true;
> > > + }
> > > }
> >
> > Personally, I'd prefer to do this via setting a bit in a KVM-specific
> > MSR instead. The benefit is that the guest doesn't need to remember if
> > it enabled the feature or not, it can always read the config msr. May
> > come handy for e.g. kexec/kdump.
>
> I think we would need to remember it anyway. Accessing MSR is somewhat
> expensive. But, okay, I can rework it MSR if needed.
I think Vitaly is talking about the case where the kernel can't easily get
at its cached state, e.g. after booting into a new kernel. The kernel would
still have an X86_FEATURE bit or whatever, providing a virtual MSR would be
purely for rare slow paths.
That being said, a hypercall plus CPUID bit might be better, e.g. that'd
allow the guest to query the state without risking a #GP.
> Note, that we can avoid the enabling algother, if we modify BIOS to deal
> with private/shared memory. Currently BIOS get system crash if we enable
> the feature from time zero.
Which would mesh better with a CPUID feature bit.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-27 5:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-22 12:51 [RFC 00/16] KVM protected memory extension Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-05-22 12:51 ` [RFC 01/16] x86/mm: Move force_dma_unencrypted() to common code Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-05-22 12:52 ` [RFC 02/16] x86/kvm: Introduce KVM memory protection feature Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-05-25 14:58 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2020-05-25 15:15 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-05-27 5:03 ` Sean Christopherson [this message]
2020-05-27 8:39 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2020-05-27 8:52 ` Sean Christopherson
2020-06-03 2:09 ` Huang, Kai
2020-06-03 11:14 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2020-05-22 12:52 ` [RFC 03/16] x86/kvm: Make DMA pages shared Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-05-22 12:52 ` [RFC 04/16] x86/kvm: Use bounce buffers for KVM memory protection Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-05-22 12:52 ` [RFC 05/16] x86/kvm: Make VirtIO use DMA API in KVM guest Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-05-22 12:52 ` [RFC 06/16] KVM: Use GUP instead of copy_from/to_user() to access guest memory Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-05-25 15:08 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2020-05-25 15:17 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-06-01 16:35 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-06-02 13:33 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-05-26 6:14 ` Mike Rapoport
2020-05-26 21:56 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-05-29 15:24 ` Kees Cook
2020-05-22 12:52 ` [RFC 07/16] KVM: mm: Introduce VM_KVM_PROTECTED Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-05-26 6:15 ` Mike Rapoport
2020-05-26 22:01 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-05-26 6:40 ` John Hubbard
2020-05-26 22:04 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-05-22 12:52 ` [RFC 08/16] KVM: x86: Use GUP for page walk instead of __get_user() Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-05-22 12:52 ` [RFC 09/16] KVM: Protected memory extension Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-05-25 15:26 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2020-05-25 15:34 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-06-03 1:34 ` Huang, Kai
2020-05-22 12:52 ` [RFC 10/16] KVM: x86: Enabled protected " Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-05-25 15:26 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2020-05-26 6:16 ` Mike Rapoport
2020-05-26 21:58 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-05-22 12:52 ` [RFC 11/16] KVM: Rework copy_to/from_guest() to avoid direct mapping Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-05-22 12:52 ` [RFC 12/16] x86/kvm: Share steal time page with host Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-05-22 12:52 ` [RFC 13/16] x86/kvmclock: Share hvclock memory with the host Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-05-25 15:22 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2020-05-25 15:25 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-05-25 15:42 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2020-05-22 12:52 ` [RFC 14/16] KVM: Introduce gfn_to_pfn_memslot_protected() Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-05-22 12:52 ` [RFC 15/16] KVM: Handle protected memory in __kvm_map_gfn()/__kvm_unmap_gfn() Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-05-22 12:52 ` [RFC 16/16] KVM: Unmap protected pages from direct mapping Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-05-26 6:16 ` Mike Rapoport
2020-05-26 22:10 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-05-25 5:27 ` [RFC 00/16] KVM protected memory extension Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-05-25 13:47 ` Liran Alon
2020-05-25 14:46 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-05-25 15:56 ` Liran Alon
2020-05-26 6:17 ` Mike Rapoport
2020-05-26 10:16 ` Liran Alon
2020-05-26 11:38 ` Mike Rapoport
2020-05-27 15:45 ` Dave Hansen
2020-05-27 21:22 ` Mike Rapoport
2020-06-04 15:15 ` Marc Zyngier
2020-06-04 15:48 ` Sean Christopherson
2020-06-04 16:27 ` Marc Zyngier
2020-06-04 16:35 ` Will Deacon
2020-06-04 19:09 ` Nakajima, Jun
2020-06-04 21:03 ` Jim Mattson
2020-06-04 23:29 ` Nakajima, Jun
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