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

Chao Peng
2022-12-20T07:47:54Z

On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 03:36:28PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> 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.

It's unnecessary and ...

>
> > 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?

userspace is restricted to access the memory content in the fd.

>
> > 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, ..."

When both userspace_addr and restricted_fd/offset were used, ...

>
> ...
>
> > 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.

RESTRICTEDMEM is needed by TDX_HOST, not TDX_GUEST.

>
> 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.

Letting the actual feature(e.g. TDX or pKVM) select it or add dependency
sounds a viable and clearer solution. Sean, let me know your opinion.

>
> 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.

The only reason to add another HAVE_KVM_RESTRICTED_MEM is some code only
works for 64bit[*] and CONFIG_RESTRICTEDMEM is not sufficient to enforce
that.

[*] https://lore.kernel.org/all/YkJLFu98hZOvTSrL@google.com/

Thanks,
Chao
>
> Thx.
>
> --
> Regards/Gruss,
> Boris.
>
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