From: Chia-I Wu <olvaffe@gmail.com>
To: "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@intel.com>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>,
ML dri-devel <dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>,
kvm list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>, Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>,
"Christopherson, Sean J" <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>,
Gurchetan Singh <gurchetansingh@chromium.org>,
Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>,
Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] KVM: x86: honor guest memory type
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 11:36:42 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPaKu7RyTbuTPf0Tp=0DAD80G-RySLrON8OQsHJzhAYDh7zHuA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AADFC41AFE54684AB9EE6CBC0274A5D19D78D6F4@SHSMSX104.ccr.corp.intel.com>
On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 1:52 AM Tian, Kevin <kevin.tian@intel.com> wrote:
>
> > From: Paolo Bonzini
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2020 12:29 AM
> >
> > On 14/02/20 23:03, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > >> On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 1:47 PM Chia-I Wu <olvaffe@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>> AFAICT, it is currently allowed on ARM (verified) and AMD (not
> > >>> verified, but svm_get_mt_mask returns 0 which supposedly means the
> > NPT
> > >>> does not restrict what the guest PAT can do). This diff would do the
> > >>> trick for Intel without needing any uapi change:
> > >> I would be concerned about Intel CPU errata such as SKX40 and SKX59.
> > > The part KVM cares about, #MC, is already addressed by forcing UC for
> > MMIO.
> > > The data corruption issue is on the guest kernel to correctly use WC
> > > and/or non-temporal writes.
> >
> > What about coherency across live migration? The userspace process would
> > use cached accesses, and also a WBINVD could potentially corrupt guest
> > memory.
> >
>
> In such case the userspace process possibly should conservatively use
> UC mapping, as if for MMIO regions on a passthrough device. However
> there remains a problem. the definition of KVM_MEM_DMA implies
> favoring guest setting, which could be whatever type in concept. Then
> assuming UC is also problematic. I'm not sure whether inventing another
> interface to query effective memory type from KVM is a good idea. There
> is no guarantee that the guest will use same type for every page in the
> same slot, then such interface might be messy. Alternatively, maybe
> we could just have an interface for KVM userspace to force memory type
> for a given slot, if it is mainly used in para-virtualized scenarios (e.g.
> virtio-gpu) where the guest is enlightened to use a forced type (e.g. WC)?
KVM forcing the memory type for a given slot should work too. But the
ignore-guest-pat bit seems to be Intel-specific. We will need to
define how the second-level page attributes combine with the guest
page attributes somehow.
KVM should in theory be able to tell that the userspace region is
mapped with a certain memory type and can force the same memory type
onto the guest. The userspace does not need to be involved. But that
sounds very slow? This may be a dumb question, but would it help to
add KVM_SET_DMA_BUF and let KVM negotiate the memory type with the
in-kernel GPU drivers?
>
> Thanks
> Kevin
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Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-13 21:30 [RFC PATCH 0/3] KVM: x86: honor guest memory type Chia-I Wu
2020-02-13 21:30 ` [RFC PATCH 1/3] KVM: vmx: rewrite the comment in vmx_get_mt_mask Chia-I Wu
2020-02-14 9:36 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-02-13 21:30 ` [RFC PATCH 2/3] RFC: KVM: add KVM_MEM_DMA Chia-I Wu
2020-02-13 21:30 ` [RFC PATCH 3/3] RFC: KVM: x86: support KVM_CAP_DMA_MEM Chia-I Wu
2020-02-13 21:41 ` [RFC PATCH 0/3] KVM: x86: honor guest memory type Paolo Bonzini
2020-02-13 22:18 ` Chia-I Wu
2020-02-14 10:26 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-02-14 19:52 ` Sean Christopherson
2020-02-14 21:47 ` Chia-I Wu
2020-02-14 21:56 ` Jim Mattson
2020-02-14 22:03 ` Sean Christopherson
2020-02-18 16:28 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-02-18 22:58 ` Sean Christopherson
2020-02-19 9:52 ` Tian, Kevin
2020-02-19 19:36 ` Chia-I Wu [this message]
2020-02-20 2:04 ` Tian, Kevin
2020-02-20 2:38 ` Tian, Kevin
2020-02-20 22:23 ` Chia-I Wu
2020-02-21 0:23 ` Tian, Kevin
2020-02-21 4:45 ` Chia-I Wu
2020-02-21 4:51 ` Chia-I Wu
2020-02-21 5:39 ` Tian, Kevin
2020-02-21 15:59 ` Sean Christopherson
2020-02-21 18:21 ` Chia-I Wu
2020-02-25 1:29 ` Tian, Kevin
2020-02-14 21:15 ` Chia-I Wu
2020-02-19 10:00 ` Tian, Kevin
2020-02-19 19:18 ` Chia-I Wu
2020-02-20 2:13 ` Tian, Kevin
2020-02-20 23:02 ` Chia-I Wu
2020-02-24 10:57 ` Gerd Hoffmann
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