Re: [PATCH v19 110/130] KVM: TDX: Handle TDX PV MMIO hypercall

[Binbin Wu]

On 6/26/2024 5:09 AM, Edgecombe, Rick P wrote:
> On Tue, 2024-06-25 at 14:54 +0800, Binbin Wu wrote:
> > > +               gpa = vcpu->mmio_fragments[0].gpa;
> > > +               size = vcpu->mmio_fragments[0].len;
> > Since MMIO cross page boundary is not allowed according to the input
> > checks from TDVMCALL, these mmio_fragments[] is not needed.
> > Just use vcpu->run->mmio.phys_addr and vcpu->run->mmio.len?
> Can we add a comment or something to that check, on why KVM doesn't handle it?
> Is it documented somewhere in the TDX ABI that it is not expected to be
> supported?
TDX GHCI doesn't have such restriction.

According to the reply from Isaku in the below link, I think current 
restriction is due to software implementation for simplicity.
https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20240419173423.GD3596705@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
+       /* Disallow MMIO crossing page boundary for simplicity. */
+       if (((gpa + size - 1) ^ gpa) & PAGE_MASK)
                goto error;

According to 
https://lore.kernel.org/all/165550567214.4207.3700499203810719676.tip-bot2@tip-bot2/,
for Linux as TDX guest, it rejects EPT violation #VEs that split pages 
based on the reason "MMIO accesses are supposed to be naturally aligned 
and therefore never cross page boundaries" to handle the 
load_unaligned_zeropad() case.

I am not sure "MMIO accesses are supposed to be naturally aligned" is 
true for all other OS as TDX guest, though.

Any suggestion?