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* [PATCH RESEND V2 0/2] Fixes for recovery for machine check in TDX/SEAM non-root mode
@ 2025-08-19 16:24 Adrian Hunter
  2025-08-19 16:24 ` [PATCH RESEND V2 1/2] x86/mce: Fix missing address mask in recovery for errors " Adrian Hunter
  2025-08-19 16:24 ` [PATCH RESEND V2 2/2] x86/mce: Remove MCI_ADDR_PHYSADDR Adrian Hunter
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 19+ messages in thread
From: Adrian Hunter @ 2025-08-19 16:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Dave Hansen, Tony Luck, pbonzini, seanjc
  Cc: vannapurve, Borislav Petkov, Thomas Gleixner, Ingo Molnar, x86,
	H Peter Anvin, linux-edac, linux-kernel, kvm, rick.p.edgecombe,
	kai.huang, reinette.chatre, xiaoyao.li, tony.lindgren, binbin.wu,
	ira.weiny, isaku.yamahata, Fan Du, Yazen Ghannam, yan.y.zhao,
	chao.gao

Hi


Here is V2 of a small fix related to recovery for machine check in TDX/SEAM
non-root mode, and a small tidy-up.


Changes in V2:

    x86/mce: Fix missing address mask in recovery for errors in TDX/SEAM
    non-root mode
      Mask address when it is read
      Amend struct mce addr description

    KVM: TDX: Do not clear poisoned pages
      Patch dropped

    x86/mce: Remove MCI_ADDR_PHYSADDR
      New patch


The issue was noticed as part of work to determine the conditions under
which TDX private memory needs to be cleared after being reclaimed.
For guests with a large amount of memory, clearing all private pages during
VM shutdown can take minutes, so we are looking at when that can be
skipped.  A future patch will deal with that.

One thing that was investigated was the effect of deliberately corrupting a
TDX guest private page by writing to it on the host, and then reading it
on the guest, which results in a machine check as expected, but revealed
the issue addressed in patch 1.

There are 2 outstanding issues:

1. It is assumed that once the TDX VM is shutdown that the memory is
returned to the allocator.  That is true at present, but may not be in the
future.  Consider, for example, patch set "New KVM ioctl to link a gmem
inode to a new gmem file" :

      https://lore.kernel.org/r/cover.1747368092.git.afranji@google.com/

2. Currently, KVM TDX does not cater for the TDX VM to enter a FATAL error
state, where the only operation permitted is to tear down the VM.  KVM just
carries on, hitting various errors, but in particular, memory reclaim fails
because it is not following the teardown procedure, and all guest private
memory is leaked.


Adrian Hunter (2):
      x86/mce: Fix missing address mask in recovery for errors in TDX/SEAM non-root mode
      x86/mce: Remove MCI_ADDR_PHYSADDR

 arch/x86/include/asm/mce.h      | 3 ---
 arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/mce.h | 2 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/core.c  | 9 ++++++---
 drivers/cxl/core/mce.c          | 2 +-
 drivers/edac/skx_common.c       | 2 +-
 5 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)


Regards
Adrian

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2025-08-19 17:28   ` Yazen Ghannam
2025-08-19 17:51     ` Luck, Tony
2025-08-19 17:58       ` Adrian Hunter
2025-08-19 18:03         ` Luck, Tony
2025-08-20 15:59           ` Adrian Hunter
2025-08-20 16:12             ` Luck, Tony
2025-08-20 17:56               ` Yazen Ghannam
2025-08-21  6:49                 ` Adrian Hunter
2025-08-19 21:32   ` Borislav Petkov
2025-08-21  7:24     ` Adrian Hunter
2025-08-21 13:25       ` Borislav Petkov
2025-08-22  7:57         ` Adrian Hunter
2025-08-22 13:54           ` Borislav Petkov
2025-08-22 14:54             ` Adrian Hunter
2025-08-27  8:22     ` Adrian Hunter
2025-08-27  8:29       ` Borislav Petkov
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