Re: [PATCH 10/16] KVM: x86/tdp_mmu: Support TDX private mapping for TDP MMU

From: Isaku Yamahata
Date: Tue May 28 2024 - 21:24:54 EST


On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 08:54:31PM +0000,
"Edgecombe, Rick P" <rick.p.edgecombe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, 2024-05-14 at 17:59 -0700, Rick Edgecombe wrote:
> > +static inline int __tdp_mmu_set_spte_atomic(struct kvm *kvm, struct tdp_iter
> > *iter, u64 new_spte)
> >  {
> >         u64 *sptep = rcu_dereference(iter->sptep);
> >  
> > @@ -542,15 +671,42 @@ static inline int __tdp_mmu_set_spte_atomic(struct
> > tdp_iter *iter, u64 new_spte)
> >          */
> >         WARN_ON_ONCE(iter->yielded || is_removed_spte(iter->old_spte));
> >  
> > -       /*
> > -        * Note, fast_pf_fix_direct_spte() can also modify TDP MMU SPTEs and
> > -        * does not hold the mmu_lock.  On failure, i.e. if a different
> > logical
> > -        * CPU modified the SPTE, try_cmpxchg64() updates iter->old_spte with
> > -        * the current value, so the caller operates on fresh data, e.g. if it
> > -        * retries tdp_mmu_set_spte_atomic()
> > -        */
> > -       if (!try_cmpxchg64(sptep, &iter->old_spte, new_spte))
> > -               return -EBUSY;
> > +       if (is_private_sptep(iter->sptep) && !is_removed_spte(new_spte)) {
> > +               int ret;
> > +
> > +               if (is_shadow_present_pte(new_spte)) {
> > +                       /*
> > +                        * Populating case.
> > +                        * - set_private_spte_present() implements
> > +                        *   1) Freeze SPTE
> > +                        *   2) call hooks to update private page table,
> > +                        *   3) update SPTE to new_spte
> > +                        * - handle_changed_spte() only updates stats.
> > +                        */
> > +                       ret = set_private_spte_present(kvm, iter->sptep, iter-
> > >gfn,
> > +                                                      iter->old_spte,
> > new_spte, iter->level);
> > +                       if (ret)
> > +                               return ret;
> > +               } else {
> > +                       /*
> > +                        * Zapping case.
> > +                        * Zap is only allowed when write lock is held
> > +                        */
> > +                       if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!is_shadow_present_pte(new_spte)))
>
> This inside an else block for (is_shadow_present_pte(new_spte)), so it will
> always be true if it gets here. But it can't because TDX doesn't do any atomic
> zapping.
>
> We can remove the conditional, but in regards to the WARN, any recollection of
> what was might have been going on here originally?

We had an optimization so that there are other state in addition to present,
non-present. When I dropped it, I should've dropped else-sentence.
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Isaku Yamahata <isaku.yamahata@xxxxxxxxx>