Re: [PATCH] selftests: KVM: avoid failures due to reserved HyperTransport region

From: Joao Martins
Date: Fri Aug 06 2021 - 06:57:56 EST




On 8/5/21 11:54 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Accessing guest physical addresses at 0xFFFD_0000_0000 and above causes
> a failure on AMD processors because those addresses are reserved by
> HyperTransport (this is not documented).

Oh, but it's actually documented in the AMD IOMMU manual [0] (and AMD IOMMU in linux do
mark it as a reserved IOVA region i.e. HT_RANGE_START..HT_RANGE_END). And it's usually
marked as a reserved type in E820. At least on the machines I've seen.

See manual section '2.1.2 IOMMU Logical Topology':

"Special address controls in Table 3 are interpreted against untranslated guest physical
addressess (GPA) that lack a PASID TLP prefix."

Base Address Top Address Use

FD_0000_0000h FD_F7FF_FFFFh Reserved interrupt address space
FD_F800_0000h FD_F8FF_FFFFh Interrupt/EOI IntCtl
FD_F900_0000h FD_F90F_FFFFh Legacy PIC IACK
FD_F910_0000h FD_F91F_FFFFh System Management
FD_F920_0000h FD_FAFF_FFFFh Reserved Page Tables
FD_FB00_0000h FD_FBFF_FFFFh Address Translation
FD_FC00_0000h FD_FDFF_FFFFh I/O Space
FD_FE00_0000h FD_FFFF_FFFFh Configuration
FE_0000_0000h FE_1FFF_FFFFh Extended Configuration/Device Messages
FE_2000_0000h FF_FFFF_FFFFh Reserved

It covers the range starting that address you fixed up ... up to 1Tb, fwiw.

You mark it ~1010G as max gfn so shouldn't be a problem.

[0] https://www.amd.com/system/files/TechDocs/48882_IOMMU.pdf

> Avoid selftests failures
> by reserving those guest physical addresses.
>
> Fixes: ef4c9f4f6546 ("KVM: selftests: Fix 32-bit truncation of vm_get_max_gfn()")
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: David Matlack <dmatlack@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/kvm_util.c | 6 ++++++
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/kvm_util.c b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/kvm_util.c
> index 10a8ed691c66..d995cc9836ee 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/kvm_util.c
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/kvm_util.c
> @@ -309,6 +309,12 @@ struct kvm_vm *vm_create(enum vm_guest_mode mode, uint64_t phy_pages, int perm)
> /* Limit physical addresses to PA-bits. */
> vm->max_gfn = ((1ULL << vm->pa_bits) >> vm->page_shift) - 1;
>
> +#ifdef __x86_64__
> + /* Avoid reserved HyperTransport region on AMD processors. */
> + if (vm->pa_bits == 48)
> + vm->max_gfn = 0xfffcfffff;
> +#endif
> +

Not sure if it's worth the trouble having a macro with the same name as AMD iommu like:

#define HT_RANGE_START (0xfd00000000ULL)
#define MAX_GFN (HT_RANGE_START - 1ULL)

#ifdef __x86_64__
/* Avoid reserved HyperTransport region on AMD processors. */
if (vm->pa_bits == 48)
vm->max_gfn = MAX_GFN;
#endif

It's a detail, but *perhaps* would help people grepping around it.

Also, not sure if checking against AMD cpuid vendor is worth, considering this is
a limitation only on AMD.


> /* Allocate and setup memory for guest. */
> vm->vpages_mapped = sparsebit_alloc();
> if (phy_pages != 0)
>