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From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
To: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Cc: Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan 
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	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
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	Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
	Kirill Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
	Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>,
	Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan <knsathya@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 06/11] x86/traps: Add #VE support for TDX guest
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2021 08:25:27 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <00d97a18-0400-7785-5e62-92a968b52f75@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YVMzOsrAHOONG2Ki@8bytes.org>

On 9/28/21 8:22 AM, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 07:05:40AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
>> "Shared" pages can cause #VE's.  The guest must be careful not to touch
>> them in the syscall entry path, for example.  But, shared pages are
>> untrusted so they're not use for stacks.
>>
>> "Private" pages can cause #VE's.  But, only *some* of them.  Before a
>> page is accepted, it is in the SEPT_PENDING and a reference would cause
>> a #VE.  But, after acceptance, page references either succeed or a TD
>> Exit and the hypervisor gets to handle the situation.
> Okay, and there is no way for the VMM to replace an already accepted
> page with a page in SEPT_PENDING state?

I hope not.

There would be lots of other problems if that were permitted.

  reply	other threads:[~2021-09-28 15:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-03 17:28 [PATCH v6 00/11] Add TDX Guest Support (Initial support) Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan
2021-09-03 17:28 ` [PATCH v6 01/11] x86/paravirt: Move halt paravirt calls under CONFIG_PARAVIRT Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan
2021-09-03 18:22   ` Borislav Petkov
2021-09-03 19:03     ` Kuppuswamy, Sathyanarayanan
2021-09-03 20:33       ` Borislav Petkov
2021-09-03 17:28 ` [PATCH v6 02/11] x86/tdx: Introduce INTEL_TDX_GUEST config option Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan
2021-09-28 11:37   ` Joerg Roedel
2021-09-28 12:52     ` Kuppuswamy, Sathyanarayanan
2021-09-03 17:28 ` [PATCH v6 03/11] x86/cpufeatures: Add TDX Guest CPU feature Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan
2021-09-28 11:39   ` Joerg Roedel
2021-09-28 12:53     ` Kuppuswamy, Sathyanarayanan
2021-09-03 17:28 ` [PATCH v6 04/11] x86/tdx: Add protected guest support for TDX guest Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan
2021-09-28 11:46   ` Joerg Roedel
2021-09-28 12:56     ` Kuppuswamy, Sathyanarayanan
2021-09-28 13:04       ` Joerg Roedel
2021-09-28 13:18         ` Borislav Petkov
2021-09-03 17:28 ` [PATCH v6 05/11] x86/tdx: Add __tdx_module_call() and __tdx_hypercall() helper functions Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan
2021-09-03 17:28 ` [PATCH v6 06/11] x86/traps: Add #VE support for TDX guest Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan
2021-09-28 12:16   ` Joerg Roedel
2021-09-28 14:05     ` Dave Hansen
2021-09-28 15:22       ` Joerg Roedel
2021-09-28 15:25         ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2021-09-28 15:23   ` Dave Hansen
2021-09-28 16:59     ` Kuppuswamy, Sathyanarayanan
2021-09-03 17:28 ` [PATCH v6 07/11] x86/tdx: Add HLT " Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan
2021-09-03 17:28 ` [PATCH v6 08/11] x86/tdx: Wire up KVM hypercalls Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan
2021-09-03 17:28 ` [PATCH v6 09/11] x86/tdx: Add MSR support for TDX guest Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan
2021-09-03 17:28 ` [PATCH v6 10/11] x86/tdx: Don't write CSTAR MSR on Intel Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan
2021-09-03 17:28 ` [PATCH v6 11/11] x86/tdx: Handle CPUID via #VE Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan
2021-09-03 18:35   ` Dave Hansen
2021-09-03 19:14     ` Kuppuswamy, Sathyanarayanan
2021-09-03 23:43       ` Sean Christopherson
2021-09-03 23:54         ` Andi Kleen
2021-09-04  0:00           ` Dave Hansen
2021-09-04  0:05             ` Andi Kleen

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