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From: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>
To: seanjc@google.com, pbonzini@redhat.com, yan.y.zhao@intel.com,
	kai.huang@intel.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org, kas@kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org,
	dave.hansen@intel.com, rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com
Subject: [PATCH 06/17] KVM: x86/tdp_mmu: Morph the !is_frozen_spte() check into a KVM_MMU_WARN_ON()
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2026 13:14:10 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260327201421.2824383-7-rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260327201421.2824383-1-rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>

Remove the conditional logic for handling the setting of mirror EPTs to
frozen in __tdp_mmu_set_spte_atomic() and add it as a warning instead.

Mirror TDP needs propagate PTE changes to the to the external TDP. This
presents a problem for atomic updates which can't update both at once. So
a special value, FROZEN_SPTE, is used as a temporary state during these
updates to prevent concurrent operations to the PTE. If the TDP MMU tried
to install this as a long term value, it would confuse these updates.
Despite this __tdp_mmu_set_spte_atomic() includes a check to handle it
being set. Remove this check and turn it into a warning.

Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c
index 0809fe8e8737..338957bc5109 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c
@@ -656,7 +656,13 @@ static inline int __must_check __tdp_mmu_set_spte_atomic(struct kvm *kvm,
 	 */
 	WARN_ON_ONCE(iter->yielded || is_frozen_spte(iter->old_spte));
 
-	if (is_mirror_sptep(iter->sptep) && !is_frozen_spte(new_spte)) {
+	/*
+	 * FROZEN_SPTE is a temporary state and should never be set via higher
+	 * level helpers.
+	 */
+	KVM_MMU_WARN_ON(is_frozen_spte(new_spte));
+
+	if (is_mirror_sptep(iter->sptep)) {
 		int ret;
 
 		ret = set_external_spte_present(kvm, iter->sptep, iter->gfn,
-- 
2.53.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-03-27 20:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 67+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-03-27 20:14 [PATCH 00/17] TDX MMU refactors Rick Edgecombe
2026-03-27 20:14 ` [PATCH 01/17] x86/tdx: Use pg_level in TDX APIs, not the TDX-Module's 0-based level Rick Edgecombe
2026-03-27 20:14 ` [PATCH 02/17] KVM: x86/mmu: Update iter->old_spte if cmpxchg64 on mirror SPTE "fails" Rick Edgecombe
2026-03-31  9:47   ` Huang, Kai
2026-03-31  9:17     ` Yan Zhao
2026-03-31  9:59       ` Huang, Kai
2026-03-31  9:22         ` Yan Zhao
2026-03-31 10:14           ` Huang, Kai
2026-03-27 20:14 ` [PATCH 03/17] KVM: TDX: Account all non-transient page allocations for per-TD structures Rick Edgecombe
2026-03-27 20:14 ` [PATCH 04/17] KVM: x86: Make "external SPTE" ops that can fail RET0 static calls Rick Edgecombe
2026-03-27 20:14 ` [PATCH 05/17] KVM: x86/tdp_mmu: Drop zapping KVM_BUG_ON() set_external_spte_present() Rick Edgecombe
2026-03-27 20:14 ` Rick Edgecombe [this message]
2026-03-30  5:00   ` [PATCH 06/17] KVM: x86/tdp_mmu: Morph the !is_frozen_spte() check into a KVM_MMU_WARN_ON() Yan Zhao
2026-03-31 16:37     ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2026-04-02  1:06       ` Yan Zhao
2026-04-02 19:21         ` Sean Christopherson
2026-04-03  2:47           ` Yan Zhao
2026-03-27 20:14 ` [PATCH 07/17] KVM: x86/tdp_mmu: Centralize updates to present external PTEs Rick Edgecombe
2026-03-30  6:14   ` Yan Zhao
2026-04-01 23:45     ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2026-04-02  1:59       ` Yan Zhao
2026-04-02 23:10         ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2026-04-02 23:28           ` Sean Christopherson
2026-04-03  9:05             ` Yan Zhao
2026-04-04  0:15               ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2026-04-07  8:34                 ` Yan Zhao
2026-04-07 17:21                   ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2026-04-08  1:23                     ` Yan Zhao
2026-04-03  9:08           ` Yan Zhao
2026-03-31 10:09   ` Huang, Kai
2026-04-01 23:58     ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2026-04-02 23:21       ` Sean Christopherson
2026-04-01  8:34   ` Yan Zhao
2026-04-02 23:46     ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2026-04-03 10:33       ` Yan Zhao
2026-04-08  1:50         ` Yan Zhao
2026-04-08 10:47   ` Binbin Wu
2026-03-27 20:14 ` [PATCH 08/17] KVM: TDX: Drop kvm_x86_ops.link_external_spt(), use .set_external_spte() for all Rick Edgecombe
2026-03-30  6:28   ` Yan Zhao
2026-03-27 20:14 ` [PATCH 09/17] KVM: TDX: Add helper to handle mapping leaf SPTE into S-EPT Rick Edgecombe
2026-03-30  6:43   ` Yan Zhao
2026-04-01 23:59     ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2026-03-27 20:14 ` [PATCH 10/17] KVM: TDX: Move set_external_spte_present() assert into TDX code Rick Edgecombe
2026-03-31 10:30   ` Huang, Kai
2026-04-02  0:00     ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2026-03-31 10:34   ` Huang, Kai
2026-03-27 20:14 ` [PATCH 11/17] KVM: x86/mmu: Fold set_external_spte_present() into its sole caller Rick Edgecombe
2026-03-31 10:36   ` Huang, Kai
2026-04-01  7:41   ` Yan Zhao
2026-03-27 20:14 ` [PATCH 12/17] KVM: x86/mmu: Plumb the old_spte into kvm_x86_ops.set_external_spte() Rick Edgecombe
2026-03-27 20:14 ` [PATCH 13/17] KVM: TDX: Hoist tdx_sept_remove_private_spte() above set_private_spte() Rick Edgecombe
2026-03-31 10:42   ` Huang, Kai
2026-04-02  0:04     ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2026-03-27 20:14 ` [PATCH 14/17] KVM: x86/mmu: Remove KVM_BUG_ON() that checks lock when removing PTs Rick Edgecombe
2026-03-30  7:01   ` Yan Zhao
2026-03-31 10:46     ` Huang, Kai
2026-04-02  0:08       ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2026-04-02  2:04         ` Yan Zhao
2026-03-27 20:14 ` [PATCH 15/17] KVM: TDX: Handle removal of leaf SPTEs in .set_private_spte() Rick Edgecombe
2026-03-27 20:14 ` [PATCH 16/17] KVM: x86: Move error handling inside free_external_spt() Rick Edgecombe
2026-04-09  2:08   ` Binbin Wu
2026-03-27 20:14 ` [PATCH 17/17] KVM: TDX: Move external page table freeing to TDX code Rick Edgecombe
2026-03-30  7:49   ` Yan Zhao
2026-04-02  0:17     ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2026-04-02  2:16       ` Yan Zhao
2026-04-02  2:17         ` Yan Zhao
2026-03-31 11:02   ` Huang, Kai

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