Re: [PATCH v10 1/2] x86/tdx: Retry partially-completed page conversion hypercalls

[Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>]

On 8/11/23 14:48, Dexuan Cui wrote:
> TDX guest memory is private by default and the VMM may not access it.
> However, in cases where the guest needs to share data with the VMM,
> the guest and the VMM can coordinate to make memory shared between
> them.
> 
> The guest side of this protocol includes the "MapGPA" hypercall.  This
> call takes a guest physical address range.  The hypercall spec (aka.
> the GHCI) says that the MapGPA call is allowed to return partial
> progress in mapping this range and indicate that fact with a special
> error code.  A guest that sees such partial progress is expected to
> retry the operation for the portion of the address range that was not
> completed.
> 
> Hyper-V does this partial completion dance when set_memory_decrypted()
> is called to "decrypt" swiotlb bounce buffers that can be up to 1GB
> in size.  It is evidently the only VMM that does this, which is why
> nobody noticed this until now.
> 
> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
> Reviewed-by: Michael Kelley <mikelley@microsoft.com>
> Reviewed-by: Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan <sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@linux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>

Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>

Is there any reason that this needs to go into the stable trees?  If so,
Fixes: and Cc:stable@ tags would be nice.