Re: [PATCH 40/70] x86/sev-es: Setup per-cpu GHCBs for the runtime handler

Joerg Roedel
2020-04-15T15:53:13Z

Hi Mike,

On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 07:03:44PM +0000, Mike Stunes wrote:
> set_memory_decrypted needs to check the return value. I see it
> consistently return ENOMEM. I've traced that back to split_large_page
> in arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c.

I agree that the return code needs to be checked. But I wonder why this
happens. The split_large_page() function returns -ENOMEM when
alloc_pages() fails. Do you boot the guest with minal RAM assigned?

Regards,

Joerg