From: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
To: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: KVM <kvm@vger.kernel.org>, Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>,
Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>,
Ulrich Weigand <Ulrich.Weigand@de.ibm.com>,
Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>,
Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
linux-s390 <linux-s390@vger.kernel.org>,
Michael Mueller <mimu@linux.ibm.com>,
Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/35] mm:gup/writeback: add callbacks for inaccessible pages
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 19:28:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f7065c72-0487-9d03-a286-f75a60b4ac5f@de.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d8622308-6089-50a4-54e0-277dc7c8c74b@redhat.com>
On 10.02.20 19:17, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 07.02.20 12:39, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
>> From: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>
>>
>> With the introduction of protected KVM guests on s390 there is now a
>> concept of inaccessible pages. These pages need to be made accessible
>> before the host can access them.
>>
>> While cpu accesses will trigger a fault that can be resolved, I/O
>> accesses will just fail. We need to add a callback into architecture
>> code for places that will do I/O, namely when writeback is started or
>> when a page reference is taken.
>
> My question would be: What guarantees that the page will stay accessible
> (for I/O)? IIRC, pages can be converted back to secure/inaccessible
> whenever the guest wants to access them. How will that be dealt with?
Yes, in patch 5 we do use the page lock, PageWriteBack and page_ref_freeze
to only make the page secure again if no I/O is going to be started or
still running.
We have minimized the common code impact (just these 3 callbacks) so that
architecture code can do the right thing.
>
> I would assume some magic counter that tracks if the page still has to
> remain accessible. Once all clients that require the page to be
> "accessible" on the I/O path are done, the page can be made inaccessible
> again. But then, I would assume there would be something like a
>
> /* make page accessible and make sure the page will remain accessible */
> arch_get_page_accessible(page);
>
> /* we're done dealing with the page content */
> arch_put_page_accessible(page);
>
> You mention page references. I think you should elaborate how that is
> expected to work in the patch description more detailed.
>
>
> (side note: I assume you guys have a plan for dealing with kdump wanting
> to dump inaccessible pages. the kexec kernel would have to talk to the
> UV to convert pages - and also make pages accessible on the I/O path I
> guess - or one would want to mark and skip encrypted pages completely in
> kdump somehow, as the content is essentially garbage)
On kexec and kdump the ultravisor is called as part of the the diagnose
308 subcodes 0 and 1 to make sure that a: kdump works (no fault on a
previously secure page) and b: the content of the secure page is no
longer accessible.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-10 18:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-07 11:39 [PATCH 00/35] KVM: s390: Add support for protected VMs Christian Borntraeger
2020-02-07 11:39 ` [PATCH 01/35] mm:gup/writeback: add callbacks for inaccessible pages Christian Borntraeger
2020-02-10 17:27 ` Christian Borntraeger
2020-02-11 11:26 ` Will Deacon
2020-02-11 11:43 ` Christian Borntraeger
2020-02-13 14:48 ` Christian Borntraeger
2020-02-18 16:02 ` Will Deacon
2020-02-13 19:56 ` Sean Christopherson
2020-02-13 20:13 ` Christian Borntraeger
2020-02-13 20:46 ` Sean Christopherson
2020-02-17 20:55 ` Tom Lendacky
2020-02-17 21:14 ` Christian Borntraeger
2020-02-10 18:17 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-02-10 18:28 ` Christian Borntraeger [this message]
2020-02-10 18:43 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-02-10 18:51 ` Christian Borntraeger
2020-02-18 3:36 ` Tian, Kevin
2020-02-18 6:44 ` Christian Borntraeger
2020-02-07 11:39 ` [PATCH 02/35] KVM: s390/interrupt: do not pin adapter interrupt pages Christian Borntraeger
2020-02-10 12:26 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-02-10 18:38 ` Christian Borntraeger
2020-02-10 19:33 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-02-11 9:23 ` [PATCH v2 RFC] " Christian Borntraeger
2020-02-12 11:52 ` Christian Borntraeger
2020-02-12 12:16 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-02-12 12:22 ` Christian Borntraeger
2020-02-12 12:47 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-02-12 12:39 ` Cornelia Huck
2020-02-12 12:44 ` Christian Borntraeger
2020-02-12 13:07 ` Cornelia Huck
2020-02-10 18:56 ` [PATCH 02/35] KVM: s390/interrupt: do not pin adapter interrupt Ulrich Weigand
2020-02-10 12:40 ` [PATCH 02/35] KVM: s390/interrupt: do not pin adapter interrupt pages David Hildenbrand
2020-02-07 11:39 ` [PATCH 05/35] s390/mm: provide memory management functions for protected KVM guests Christian Borntraeger
2020-02-12 13:42 ` Cornelia Huck
2020-02-13 7:43 ` Christian Borntraeger
2020-02-13 8:44 ` Cornelia Huck
2020-02-14 17:59 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-02-14 21:17 ` Christian Borntraeger
2020-02-07 11:39 ` [PATCH 06/35] s390/mm: add (non)secure page access exceptions handlers Christian Borntraeger
2020-02-14 18:05 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-02-14 19:59 ` Christian Borntraeger
2020-02-07 11:39 ` [PATCH 10/35] KVM: s390: protvirt: Secure memory is not mergeable Christian Borntraeger
2020-02-07 11:39 ` [PATCH 11/35] KVM: s390/mm: Make pages accessible before destroying the guest Christian Borntraeger
2020-02-14 18:40 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-02-07 11:39 ` [PATCH 21/35] KVM: s390/mm: handle guest unpin events Christian Borntraeger
2020-02-10 14:58 ` Thomas Huth
2020-02-11 13:21 ` Cornelia Huck
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