Re: [PATCH 05/12] x86/hyperv: Change vTOM handling to use standard coco mechanisms

[Tianyu Lan <ltykernel@gmail.com>]

On 10/21/2022 1:57 AM, Michael Kelley wrote:
> Hyper-V guests on AMD SEV-SNP hardware have the option of using the
> "virtual Top Of Memory" (vTOM) feature specified by the SEV-SNP
> architecture. With vTOM, shared vs. private memory accesses are
> controlled by splitting the guest physical address space into two
> halves.  vTOM is the dividing line where the uppermost bit of the
> physical address space is set; e.g., with 47 bits of guest physical
> address space, vTOM is 0x40000000000 (bit 46 is set).  Guest phyiscal
> memory is accessible at two parallel physical addresses -- one below
> vTOM and one above vTOM.  Accesses below vTOM are private (encrypted)
> while accesses above vTOM are shared (decrypted). In this sense, vTOM
> is like the GPA.SHARED bit in Intel TDX.
> 
> Support for Hyper-V guests using vTOM was added to the Linux kernel in
> two patch sets[1][2]. This support treats the vTOM bit as part of
> the physical address. For accessing shared (decrypted) memory, these
> patch sets create a second kernel virtual mapping that maps to physical
> addresses above vTOM.
> 
> A better approach is to treat the vTOM bit as a protection flag, not
> as part of the physical address. This new approach is like the approach
> for the GPA.SHARED bit in Intel TDX. Rather than creating a second kernel
> virtual mapping, the existing mapping is updated using recently added
> coco mechanisms.  When memory is changed between private and shared using
> set_memory_decrypted() and set_memory_encrypted(), the PTEs for the
> existing kernel mapping are changed to add or remove the vTOM bit
> in the guest physical address, just as with TDX. The hypercalls to
> change the memory status on the host side are made using the existing
> callback mechanism. Everything just works, with a minor tweak to map
> the I/O APIC to use private accesses.
> 
> To accomplish the switch in approach, the following must be done in
> in this single patch:
> 
> * Update Hyper-V initialization to set the cc _mask based on vTOM
>    and do other coco initialization.
> 
> * Update physical_mask so the vTOM bit is no longer treated as part
>    of the physical address
> 
> * Update cc_mkenc() and cc_mkdec() to be active for Hyper-V guests.
>    This makes the vTOM bit part of the protection flags.
> 
> * Code already exists to make hypercalls to inform Hyper-V about pages
>    changing between shared and private.  Update this code to run as a
>    callback from __set_memory_enc_pgtable().
> 
> * Remove the Hyper-V special case from __set_memory_enc_dec(), and
>    make the normal case active for Hyper-V VMs, which have
>    CC_ATTR_GUEST_MEM_ENCRYPT, but not CC_ATTR_MEM_ENCRYPT.
> 
> [1]https://lore.kernel.org/all/20211025122116.264793-1-ltykernel@gmail.com/
> [2]https://lore.kernel.org/all/20211213071407.314309-1-ltykernel@gmail.com/
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael Kelley<mikelley@microsoft.com>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Tianyu Lan <Tianyu.Lan@microsoft.com>