Re: [PATCH v7 17/20] x86/virt/tdx: Configure global KeyID on all packages
From: Dave Hansen
Date: Wed Nov 30 2022 - 10:13:31 EST
On 11/30/22 00:34, Huang, Kai wrote:
> On Wed, 2022-11-30 at 11:35 +0800, Binbin Wu wrote:
>> On 11/21/2022 8:26 AM, Kai Huang wrote:
>>> After the array of TDMRs and the global KeyID are configured to the TDX
>>> module, use TDH.SYS.KEY.CONFIG to configure the key of the global KeyID
>>> on all packages.
>>>
>>> TDH.SYS.KEY.CONFIG must be done on one (any) cpu for each package. And
>>> it cannot run concurrently on different CPUs. Implement a helper to
>>> run SEAMCALL on one cpu for each package one by one, and use it to
>>> configure the global KeyID on all packages.
>>>
>>> Intel hardware doesn't guarantee cache coherency across different
>>> KeyIDs. The kernel needs to flush PAMT's dirty cachelines (associated
>>> with KeyID 0) before the TDX module uses the global KeyID to access the
>>> PAMT. Following the TDX module specification, flush cache before
>>> configuring the global KeyID on all packages.
>>>
>>> Given the PAMT size can be large (~1/256th of system RAM), just use
>>> WBINVD on all CPUs to flush.
>>>
>>> Note if any TDH.SYS.KEY.CONFIG fails, the TDX module may already have
>>> used the global KeyID to write any PAMT. Therefore, need to use WBINVD
>>> to flush cache before freeing the PAMTs back to the kernel. Note using
>>> MOVDIR64B (which changes the page's associated KeyID from the old TDX
>>> private KeyID back to KeyID 0, which is used by the kernel)
>>
>> It seems not accurate to say MOVDIR64B changes the page's associated KeyID.
>> It just uses the current KeyID for memory operations.
>
> The "write" to the memory changes the page's associated KeyID to the KeyID that
> does the "write". A more accurate expression perhaps should be MOVDIR64B +
> MFENSE, but I think it doesn't matter in changelog.
Just delete it from the changelog. It's a distraction. I'm not even
sure it's *necessary* to do any memory content conversion after the TDX
module has written gunk.
There won't be any integrity issues because integrity errors don't do
anything for KeyID-0 (no #MC).
I _think_ the reads of the page using KeyID-0 will see abort page
semantics. That's *FINE*.