From: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
To: Chao Peng <chao.p.peng@linux.intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 3/8] KVM: Add KVM_EXIT_MEMORY_FAULT exit
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2022 16:26:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFEAcA-=Sc9Sc4oLq13HAFW49ZBw8u6DtN7bf_vjVYX_AAaKSg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221025151344.3784230-4-chao.p.peng@linux.intel.com>
On Tue, 25 Oct 2022 at 16:21, Chao Peng <chao.p.peng@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>
> This new KVM exit allows userspace to handle memory-related errors. It
> indicates an error happens in KVM at guest memory range [gpa, gpa+size).
> The flags includes additional information for userspace to handle the
> error. Currently bit 0 is defined as 'private memory' where '1'
> indicates error happens due to private memory access and '0' indicates
> error happens due to shared memory access.
>
> When private memory is enabled, this new exit will be used for KVM to
> exit to userspace for shared <-> private memory conversion in memory
> encryption usage. In such usage, typically there are two kind of memory
> conversions:
> - explicit conversion: happens when guest explicitly calls into KVM
> to map a range (as private or shared), KVM then exits to userspace
> to perform the map/unmap operations.
> - implicit conversion: happens in KVM page fault handler where KVM
> exits to userspace for an implicit conversion when the page is in a
> different state than requested (private or shared).
>
> Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
> Co-developed-by: Yu Zhang <yu.c.zhang@linux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Yu Zhang <yu.c.zhang@linux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Chao Peng <chao.p.peng@linux.intel.com>
> ---
> Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
> include/uapi/linux/kvm.h | 9 +++++++++
> 2 files changed, 32 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst
> index f3fa75649a78..975688912b8c 100644
> --- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst
> @@ -6537,6 +6537,29 @@ array field represents return values. The userspace should update the return
> values of SBI call before resuming the VCPU. For more details on RISC-V SBI
> spec refer, https://github.com/riscv/riscv-sbi-doc.
>
> +::
> +
> + /* KVM_EXIT_MEMORY_FAULT */
> + struct {
> + #define KVM_MEMORY_EXIT_FLAG_PRIVATE (1 << 0)
> + __u32 flags;
> + __u32 padding;
> + __u64 gpa;
> + __u64 size;
> + } memory;
> +
> +If exit reason is KVM_EXIT_MEMORY_FAULT then it indicates that the VCPU has
> +encountered a memory error which is not handled by KVM kernel module and
> +userspace may choose to handle it. The 'flags' field indicates the memory
> +properties of the exit.
> +
> + - KVM_MEMORY_EXIT_FLAG_PRIVATE - indicates the memory error is caused by
> + private memory access when the bit is set. Otherwise the memory error is
> + caused by shared memory access when the bit is clear.
> +
> +'gpa' and 'size' indicate the memory range the error occurs at. The userspace
> +may handle the error and return to KVM to retry the previous memory access.
> +
What's the difference between this and a plain old MMIO exit ?
Just that we can specify a wider size and some flags ?
-- PMM
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-25 15:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 101+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-25 15:13 [PATCH v9 0/8] KVM: mm: fd-based approach for supporting KVM Chao Peng
2022-10-25 15:13 ` [PATCH v9 1/8] mm: Introduce memfd_restricted system call to create restricted user memory Chao Peng
2022-10-26 17:31 ` Isaku Yamahata
2022-10-28 6:12 ` Chao Peng
2022-10-27 10:20 ` Fuad Tabba
2022-10-31 17:47 ` Michael Roth
2022-11-01 11:37 ` Chao Peng
2022-11-01 15:19 ` Michael Roth
2022-11-01 19:30 ` Michael Roth
2022-11-02 14:53 ` Chao Peng
2022-11-02 21:19 ` Michael Roth
2022-11-14 14:02 ` Vlastimil Babka
2022-11-14 15:28 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2022-11-14 22:16 ` Michael Roth
2022-11-15 9:48 ` Chao Peng
2022-11-14 22:16 ` Michael Roth
2022-11-02 21:14 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2022-11-02 21:26 ` Michael Roth
2022-11-02 22:07 ` Michael Roth
2022-11-03 16:30 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2022-11-29 0:06 ` Michael Roth
2022-11-29 11:21 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2022-11-29 11:39 ` David Hildenbrand
2022-11-29 13:59 ` Chao Peng
2022-11-29 13:58 ` Chao Peng
2022-11-29 0:37 ` Michael Roth
2022-11-29 14:06 ` Chao Peng
2022-11-29 19:06 ` Michael Roth
2022-11-29 19:18 ` Michael Roth
2022-11-30 9:39 ` Chao Peng
2022-11-30 14:31 ` Michael Roth
2022-11-29 18:01 ` Vishal Annapurve
2022-12-02 2:16 ` Vishal Annapurve
2022-12-02 6:49 ` Chao Peng
2022-12-02 13:44 ` Kirill A . Shutemov
2022-10-25 15:13 ` [PATCH v9 2/8] KVM: Extend the memslot to support fd-based private memory Chao Peng
2022-10-27 10:25 ` Fuad Tabba
2022-10-28 7:04 ` Xiaoyao Li
2022-10-31 14:14 ` Chao Peng
2022-11-14 16:04 ` Alex Bennée
2022-11-15 9:29 ` Chao Peng
2022-10-25 15:13 ` [PATCH v9 3/8] KVM: Add KVM_EXIT_MEMORY_FAULT exit Chao Peng
2022-10-25 15:26 ` Peter Maydell [this message]
2022-10-25 16:17 ` Sean Christopherson
2022-10-27 10:27 ` Fuad Tabba
2022-10-28 6:14 ` Chao Peng
2022-11-15 16:56 ` Alex Bennée
2022-11-16 3:14 ` Chao Peng
2022-11-16 19:03 ` Alex Bennée
2022-11-17 13:45 ` Chao Peng
2022-11-17 15:08 ` Alex Bennée
2022-11-18 1:32 ` Chao Peng
2022-11-18 13:23 ` Alex Bennée
2022-11-18 15:59 ` Sean Christopherson
2022-11-22 9:50 ` Chao Peng
2022-11-23 18:02 ` Sean Christopherson
2022-11-16 18:15 ` Andy Lutomirski
2022-11-16 18:48 ` Sean Christopherson
2022-11-17 13:42 ` Chao Peng
2022-10-25 15:13 ` [PATCH v9 4/8] KVM: Use gfn instead of hva for mmu_notifier_retry Chao Peng
2022-10-27 10:29 ` Fuad Tabba
2022-11-04 2:28 ` Chao Peng
2022-11-04 22:29 ` Sean Christopherson
2022-11-08 7:16 ` Chao Peng
2022-11-10 17:53 ` Sean Christopherson
2022-11-10 20:06 ` Sean Christopherson
2022-11-11 8:27 ` Chao Peng
2022-10-25 15:13 ` [PATCH v9 5/8] KVM: Register/unregister the guest private memory regions Chao Peng
2022-10-27 10:31 ` Fuad Tabba
2022-11-03 23:04 ` Sean Christopherson
2022-11-04 8:28 ` Chao Peng
2022-11-04 21:19 ` Sean Christopherson
2022-11-08 8:24 ` Chao Peng
2022-11-08 1:35 ` Yuan Yao
2022-11-08 9:41 ` Chao Peng
2022-11-09 5:52 ` Yuan Yao
2022-11-16 22:24 ` Sean Christopherson
2022-11-17 13:20 ` Chao Peng
2022-10-25 15:13 ` [PATCH v9 6/8] KVM: Update lpage info when private/shared memory are mixed Chao Peng
2022-10-26 20:46 ` Isaku Yamahata
2022-10-28 6:38 ` Chao Peng
2022-11-08 12:08 ` Yuan Yao
2022-11-09 4:13 ` Chao Peng
2022-10-25 15:13 ` [PATCH v9 7/8] KVM: Handle page fault for private memory Chao Peng
2022-10-26 21:54 ` Isaku Yamahata
2022-10-28 6:55 ` Chao Peng
2022-11-01 0:02 ` Isaku Yamahata
2022-11-01 11:38 ` Chao Peng
2022-11-16 20:50 ` Ackerley Tng
2022-11-16 22:13 ` Sean Christopherson
2022-11-17 13:25 ` Chao Peng
2022-10-25 15:13 ` [PATCH v9 8/8] KVM: Enable and expose KVM_MEM_PRIVATE Chao Peng
2022-10-27 10:31 ` Fuad Tabba
2022-11-03 12:13 ` [PATCH v9 0/8] KVM: mm: fd-based approach for supporting KVM Vishal Annapurve
2022-11-08 0:41 ` Isaku Yamahata
2022-11-09 15:54 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2022-11-15 14:36 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2022-11-14 11:43 ` Alex Bennée
2022-11-16 5:00 ` Chao Peng
2022-11-16 9:40 ` Alex Bennée
2022-11-17 14:16 ` Chao Peng
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