From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
To: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>,
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"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] x86: Impplement support for unaccepted memory
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2021 07:08:58 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4b80289a-07a4-bf92-9946-b0a8afb27326@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210810062626.1012-1-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
On 8/9/21 11:26 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> UEFI Specification version 2.9 introduces concept of memory acceptance:
> Some Virtual Machine platforms, such as Intel TDX or AMD SEV-SNP,
> requiring memory to be accepted before it can be used by the guest.
> Accepting happens via a protocol specific for the Virtrual Machine
> platform.
>
> Accepting memory is costly and it makes VMM allocate memory for the
> accepted guest physical address range. We don't want to accept all memory
> upfront.
This could use a bit more explanation. Any VM is likely to *eventually*
touch all its memory, so it's not like a VMM has a long-term advantage
by delaying this.
So, it must have to do with resource use at boot. Is this to help boot
times?
I had expected this series, but I also expected it to be connected to
CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT somehow. Could you explain a bit how
this problem is different and demands a totally orthogonal solution?
For instance, what prevents us from declaring: "Memory is accepted at
the time that its 'struct page' is initialized" ? Then, we use all the
infrastructure we already have for DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT.
This series isn't too onerous, but I do want to make sure that we're not
reinventing the wheel.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-10 14:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-10 6:26 [PATCH 0/5] x86: Impplement support for unaccepted memory Kirill A. Shutemov
2021-08-10 6:26 ` [PATCH 1/5] mm: Add " Kirill A. Shutemov
2021-08-10 7:48 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-08-10 15:02 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2021-08-10 15:21 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-08-12 20:34 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2021-08-10 18:13 ` Dave Hansen
2021-08-10 18:30 ` Andi Kleen
2021-08-10 18:56 ` Dave Hansen
2021-08-10 19:23 ` Andi Kleen
2021-08-10 19:46 ` Dave Hansen
2021-08-10 21:20 ` Andi Kleen
2021-08-12 8:19 ` Joerg Roedel
2021-08-12 14:14 ` Dave Hansen
2021-08-12 20:49 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2021-08-12 20:59 ` Dave Hansen
2021-08-12 21:23 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2021-08-13 14:49 ` Joerg Roedel
2021-08-17 15:00 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-08-19 9:55 ` Joerg Roedel
2021-08-19 10:06 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-08-10 20:50 ` Dave Hansen
2021-08-12 21:08 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2021-08-10 6:26 ` [PATCH 2/5] efi/x86: Implement " Kirill A. Shutemov
2021-08-10 17:50 ` Dave Hansen
2021-08-12 21:14 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2021-08-12 21:43 ` Dave Hansen
2021-08-10 18:30 ` Dave Hansen
2021-08-10 19:08 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2021-08-10 19:19 ` Dave Hansen
2021-08-12 21:17 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2021-08-10 6:26 ` [PATCH 3/5] x86/boot/compressed: Handle " Kirill A. Shutemov
2021-08-10 6:26 ` [PATCH 4/5] x86/mm: Provide helpers for " Kirill A. Shutemov
2021-08-10 18:16 ` Dave Hansen
2021-08-12 20:31 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2021-08-10 6:26 ` [PATCH 5/5] x86/tdx: Unaccepted memory support Kirill A. Shutemov
2021-08-10 14:08 ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2021-08-10 15:15 ` [PATCH 0/5] x86: Impplement support for unaccepted memory Kirill A. Shutemov
2021-08-10 15:51 ` Dave Hansen
2021-08-10 17:31 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2021-08-10 17:36 ` Dave Hansen
2021-08-10 17:51 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2021-08-10 18:19 ` Dave Hansen
2021-08-10 18:39 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2021-08-12 8:23 ` Joerg Roedel
2021-08-12 10:10 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2021-08-12 19:33 ` Andi Kleen
2021-08-12 20:22 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2021-08-13 14:56 ` Joerg Roedel
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