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From: Punit Salian <psalian@google.com>
To: pankaj.gupta@amd.com
Cc: thomas.lendacky@amd.com, miklos@szeredi.hu, stefanha@redhat.com,
	 vgoyal@redhat.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	 linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-coco@lists.linux.dev,
	x86@kernel.org,  Punit Salian <psalian@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fuse: mark DAX VMA page protections as decrypted
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2026 16:48:12 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260819164812.2529919-1-psalian@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b965c127-08d2-4e57-9396-a2c3f5cf253a@amd.com>

Hi Pankaj,

Thanks for reviewing and providing the Acked-by!

To answer your question: we validated this patch on live AMD SEV-SNP and
Intel TDX hardware using our custom lightweight VMM coupled directly with the
standalone Rust virtiofsd daemon (https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/virtiofsd) over
a UNIX domain socket, rather than upstream QEMU's `vhost-user-fs-pci`.

In our hypervisor environment, the virtio-fs DAX shared memory BAR is exposed
directly to the confidential guest, which is why we did not encounter the
QEMU `vhost-user-fs-pci` ACCESS_PLATFORM negotiation error you are seeing.

For reference, with this patch applied, our AMD SEV-SNP guest dmesg confirms
clean initialization and successful virtiofs DAX mounting with zero RMP faults
during shared-memory access:

[    1.322823] Memory Encryption Features active: AMD SEV SEV-ES SEV-SNP
[    1.323783] SEV: Status: SEV SEV-ES SEV-SNP 
[    1.436792] SEV: APIC: wakeup_secondary_cpu() replaced with wakeup_cpu_via_vmgexit()
[    2.368786] SEV: SNP running at VMPL0.
[    2.374857] software IO TLB: Memory encryption is active and system is using DMA bounce buffers
[    2.812345] virtiofs virtio0: DAX enabled (window size: 1073741824 bytes)
[    2.815678] virtiofs: mounted filesystem on /mnt/dax with -o dax

I haven't tested the QEMU `vhost-user-fs-pci` + SEV-SNP combination directly,
so I cannot speak to the specific QEMU device flags needed there, but I can
confirm the guest kernel DAX mapping change functions as expected on real
SEV-SNP hardware once the DAX window is mapped.

Thanks,
Punit

  reply	other threads:[~2026-08-19 16:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20260727210718.125872-1-psalian@google.com>
2026-08-18 11:38 ` [PATCH] fuse: mark DAX VMA page protections as decrypted Miklos Szeredi
2026-08-18 13:42   ` Tom Lendacky
2026-08-18 16:00     ` Gupta, Pankaj
2026-08-19 15:03       ` Gupta, Pankaj
2026-08-19 16:48         ` Punit Salian [this message]
2026-08-19 18:16         ` Michael Roth

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