Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] drm/ttm, drm/vmwgfx: Correctly support support AMD memory encryption

[Dave Hansen]

On 9/3/19 1:36 PM, Thomas HellstrÃm (VMware) wrote:
> So the question here should really be, can we determine already at mmap
> time whether backing memory will be unencrypted and adjust the *real*
> vma->vm_page_prot under the mmap_sem?
> 
> Possibly, but that requires populating the buffer with memory at mmap
> time rather than at first fault time.

I'm not connecting the dots.

vma->vm_page_prot is used to create a VMA's PTEs regardless of if they
are created at mmap() or fault time.  If we establish a good
vma->vm_page_prot, can't we just use it forever for demand faults?

Or, are you concerned that if an attempt is made to demand-fault page
that's incompatible with vma->vm_page_prot that we have to SEGV?

> And it still requires knowledge whether the device DMA is always
> unencrypted (or if SEV is active).

I may be getting mixed up on MKTME (the Intel memory encryption) and
SEV.  Is SEV supported on all memory types?  Page cache, hugetlbfs,
anonymous?  Or just anonymous?