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From: "Huang, Kai" <kai.huang@intel.com>
To: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>,
	"pbonzini@redhat.com" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	"Hunter, Adrian" <adrian.hunter@intel.com>,
	"seanjc@google.com" <seanjc@google.com>
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	"Li, Xiaoyao" <xiaoyao.li@intel.com>,
	"Zhao, Yan Y" <yan.y.zhao@intel.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] KVM: TDX: Do not clear poisoned pages
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2025 23:09:48 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83e34b6cfa1d25857a085db835a43459a1d6a97c.camel@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250618120806.113884-3-adrian.hunter@intel.com>

On Wed, 2025-06-18 at 15:08 +0300, Hunter, Adrian wrote:
> Skip clearing a private page if it is marked as poisoned.
> 
> The machine check architecture may have the capability to recover from
							 ^
"to recover" -> "to allow the kernel to recover"?

> memory corruption in SEAM non-root (i.e. TDX VM guest) mode.  In that
> case the page is marked as poisoned, and the TDX Module puts the TDX VM

"marked as poisoned" -> "marked as poisoned in the kernel"?  Since next half
of this sentence immediately talks about TDX module behaviour.

> into a FATAL error state where the only operation permitted is to tear it
> down.
> 
> During tear down, reclaimed pages are cleared which, in some cases,  helps
								      ^

Double writespace in middle of sentence.

> to avoid integrity violation or TD bit mismatch detection when later being
> read using a shared HKID.
> 
> However a poisoned page will never be allocated again, so clearing is not
> necessary, and in any case poisoned pages should not be touched.
> 
> Note that while it is possible that memory corruption arises from integrity
> violation which could be cleared by MOVDIR64B, that is not necessarily the
> cause of the machine check.
> 
> Suggested-by: Kai Huang <kai.huang@intel.com>
> Fixes: 8d032b683c299 ("KVM: TDX: create/destroy VM structure")
> Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>

With comments from Xiaoyao/Dave fixed,

Reviewed-by: Kai Huang <kai.huang@intel.com>

      parent reply	other threads:[~2025-06-18 23:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-06-18 12:08 [PATCH 0/2] Fixes for recovery for machine check in TDX/SEAM non-root mode Adrian Hunter
2025-06-18 12:08 ` [PATCH 1/2] x86/mce: Fix missing address mask in recovery for errors " Adrian Hunter
2025-06-18 12:36   ` Xiaoyao Li
2025-06-18 14:55   ` Dave Hansen
2025-06-19 11:57     ` Adrian Hunter
2025-06-27 15:23       ` Adrian Hunter
2025-06-27 15:25         ` Dave Hansen
2025-06-27 16:24           ` Luck, Tony
2025-06-27 16:33             ` Dave Hansen
2025-07-30 10:54               ` Adrian Hunter
2025-07-30 11:57                 ` Huang, Kai
2025-07-30 14:20                 ` Vishal Annapurve
2025-06-27 16:28         ` Luck, Tony
2025-06-18 23:20   ` Huang, Kai
2025-06-18 23:39     ` Luck, Tony
2025-06-18 23:46       ` Luck, Tony
2025-06-18 23:57         ` Huang, Kai
2025-06-18 23:53       ` Huang, Kai
2025-06-18 12:08 ` [PATCH 2/2] KVM: TDX: Do not clear poisoned pages Adrian Hunter
2025-06-18 12:39   ` Xiaoyao Li
2025-06-18 14:58   ` Dave Hansen
2025-06-25 14:33     ` Vishal Annapurve
2025-06-25 16:25       ` Adrian Hunter
2025-06-25 16:31         ` Dave Hansen
2025-06-25 16:42           ` Adrian Hunter
2025-06-25 16:57             ` Dave Hansen
2025-06-25 16:42         ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2025-06-25 22:32         ` Huang, Kai
2025-06-25 22:38           ` Dave Hansen
2025-06-26  1:19             ` Huang, Kai
2025-06-26 15:31               ` Luck, Tony
2025-06-26 22:20                 ` Huang, Kai
2025-06-26 22:33                   ` Dave Hansen
2025-06-27  0:56                     ` Huang, Kai
2025-06-18 23:09   ` Huang, Kai [this message]

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