Re: [PATCH 0/7] KVM: x86: guest MAXPHYADDR and C-bit fixes

[Sean Christopherson]

On Thu, Jun 24, 2021, Tom Lendacky wrote:
> On 6/24/21 12:39 PM, Tom Lendacky wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On 6/24/21 12:31 PM, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> >> On Thu, Jun 24, 2021, Tom Lendacky wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Here's an explanation of the physical address reduction for bare-metal and
> >>>> guest.
> >>>>
> >>>> With MSR 0xC001_0010[SMEE] = 0:
> >>>>   No reduction in host or guest max physical address.
> >>>>
> >>>> With MSR 0xC001_0010[SMEE] = 1:
> >>>> - Reduction in the host is enumerated by CPUID 0x8000_001F_EBX[11:6],
> >>>>   regardless of whether SME is enabled in the host or not. So, for example
> >>>>   on EPYC generation 2 (Rome) you would see a reduction from 48 to 43.
> >>>> - There is no reduction in physical address in a legacy guest (non-SEV
> >>>>   guest), so the guest can use a 48-bit physical address
> >>
> >> So the behavior I'm seeing is either a CPU bug or user error.  Can you verify
> >> the unexpected #PF behavior to make sure I'm not doing something stupid?
> > 
> > Yeah, I saw that in patch #3. Let me see what I can find out. I could just
> > be wrong on that myself - it wouldn't be the first time.
> 
> From patch #3:
>   SVM: KVM: CPU #PF @ rip = 0x409ca4, cr2 = 0xc0000000, pfec = 0xb
>   KVM: guest PTE = 0x181023 @ GPA = 0x180000, level = 4
>   KVM: guest PTE = 0x186023 @ GPA = 0x181000, level = 3
>   KVM: guest PTE = 0x187023 @ GPA = 0x186000, level = 2
>   KVM: guest PTE = 0xffffbffff003 @ GPA = 0x187000, level = 1
>   SVM: KVM: GPA = 0x7fffbffff000
> 
> I think you may be hitting a special HT region that is at the top 12GB of
> the 48-bit memory range and is reserved, even for GPAs. Can you somehow
> get the test to use an address below 0xfffd_0000_0000? That would show
> that bit 47 is valid for the legacy guest while staying out of the HT region.

I can make that happen.

I assume "HT" is HyperTransport?