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
next prev 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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