Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] KVM: x86/mmu: Allow for overriding MMIO SPTE mask

From: Sean Christopherson
Date: Wed Dec 18 2019 - 15:27:06 EST


On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 01:51:23PM -0600, Tom Lendacky wrote:
> On 12/18/19 1:45 PM, Tom Lendacky wrote:
> > The KVM MMIO support uses bit 51 as the reserved bit to cause nested page
> > faults when a guest performs MMIO. The AMD memory encryption support uses
> > CPUID functions to define the encryption bit position. Given this, KVM
> > can't assume that bit 51 will be safe all the time.
> >
> > Add a callback to return a reserved bit(s) mask that can be used for the
> > MMIO pagetable entries. The callback is not responsible for setting the
> > present bit.
> >
> > If a callback is registered:
> > - any non-zero mask returned is updated with the present bit and used
> > as the MMIO SPTE mask.
> > - a zero mask returned results in a mask with only bit 51 set (i.e. no
> > present bit) as the MMIO SPTE mask, similar to the way 52-bit physical
> > addressing is handled.
> >
> > If no callback is registered, the current method of setting the MMIO SPTE
> > mask is used.
> >
> > Fixes: 28a1f3ac1d0c ("kvm: x86: Set highest physical address bits in non-present/reserved SPTEs")
> > Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@xxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 4 ++-
> > arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c | 54 +++++++++++++++++++++------------
> > arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 2 +-
> > 3 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
>
> This patch has some extra churn because kvm_x86_ops isn't set yet when the
> call to kvm_set_mmio_spte_mask() is made. If it's not a problem to move
> setting kvm_x86_ops just a bit earlier in kvm_arch_init(), some of the
> churn can be avoided.

As a completely different alternative, what about handling this purely
within SVM code by overriding the masks during svm_hardware_setup(),
similar to how VMX handles EPT's custom masks, e.g.:

/*
* Override the MMIO masks if memory encryption support is enabled:
* The physical addressing width is reduced. The first bit above the
* new physical addressing limit will always be reserved.
*/
if (cpuid_eax(0x80000000) >= 0x8000001f) {
rdmsrl(MSR_K8_SYSCFG, msr);
if (msr & MSR_K8_SYSCFG_MEM_ENCRYPT) {
mask = BIT_ULL(boot_cpu_data.x86_phys_bits) | BIT_ULL(0);
kvm_mmu_set_mmio_spte_mask(mask, mask,
ACC_WRITE_MASK | ACC_USER_MASK);
}
}