Re: [PATCH v10 3/9] KVM: Extend the memslot to support fd-based private memory

Borislav Petkov
2022-12-19T14:37:22Z

On Fri, Dec 02, 2022 at 02:13:41PM +0800, Chao Peng wrote:
> In memory encryption usage, guest memory may be encrypted with special
> key and can be accessed only by the guest itself. We call such memory
> private memory. It's valueless and sometimes can cause problem to allow

valueless?

I can't parse that.

> userspace to access guest private memory. This new KVM memslot extension
> allows guest private memory being provided through a restrictedmem
> backed file descriptor(fd) and userspace is restricted to access the
> bookmarked memory in the fd.

bookmarked?

> This new extension, indicated by the new flag KVM_MEM_PRIVATE, adds two
> additional KVM memslot fields restricted_fd/restricted_offset to allow
> userspace to instruct KVM to provide guest memory through restricted_fd.
> 'guest_phys_addr' is mapped at the restricted_offset of restricted_fd
> and the size is 'memory_size'.
>
> The extended memslot can still have the userspace_addr(hva). When use, a

"When un use, ..."

...

> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/Kconfig b/arch/x86/kvm/Kconfig
> index a8e379a3afee..690cb21010e7 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/Kconfig
> @@ -50,6 +50,8 @@ config KVM
> select INTERVAL_TREE
> select HAVE_KVM_PM_NOTIFIER if PM
> select HAVE_KVM_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES
> + select HAVE_KVM_RESTRICTED_MEM if X86_64
> + select RESTRICTEDMEM if HAVE_KVM_RESTRICTED_MEM

Those deps here look weird.

RESTRICTEDMEM should be selected by TDX_GUEST as it can't live without
it.

Then you don't have to select HAVE_KVM_RESTRICTED_MEM simply because of
X86_64 - you need that functionality when the respective guest support
is enabled in KVM.

Then, looking forward into your patchset, I'm not sure you even
need HAVE_KVM_RESTRICTED_MEM - you could make it all depend on
CONFIG_RESTRICTEDMEM. But that's KVM folks call - I'd always aim for
less Kconfig items because we have waay too many.

Thx.

--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.