Re: [PATCH v4] x86/sev: Don't touch VMSA pages during kdump of SNP guest memory

[Tom Lendacky]

On 4/30/25 16:57, Ashish Kalra wrote:
> From: Ashish Kalra <ashish.kalra@xxxxxxx>
> 
> When kdump is running makedumpfile to generate vmcore and dumping SNP
> guest memory it touches the VMSA page of the vCPU executing kdump which
> then results in unrecoverable #NPF/RMP faults as the VMSA page is
> marked busy/in-use when the vCPU is running and subsequently causes
> guest softlockup/hang.
> 
> Additionally other APs may be halted in guest mode and their VMSA pages
> are marked busy and touching these VMSA pages during guest memory dump
> will also cause #NPF.
> 
> Issue AP_DESTROY GHCB calls on other APs to ensure they are kicked out
> of guest mode and then clear the VMSA bit on their VMSA pages.
> 
> If the vCPU running kdump is an AP, mark it's VMSA page as offline to
> ensure that makedumpfile excludes that page while dumping guest memory.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@xxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Fixes: 3074152e56c9 ("x86/sev: Convert shared memory back to private on kexec")
> Signed-off-by: Ashish Kalra <ashish.kalra@xxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/x86/coco/sev/core.c | 244 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
>  1 file changed, 158 insertions(+), 86 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/coco/sev/core.c b/arch/x86/coco/sev/core.c
> index dcfaa698d6cf..d35fec7b164a 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/coco/sev/core.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/coco/sev/core.c
> @@ -877,6 +877,102 @@ void snp_accept_memory(phys_addr_t start, phys_addr_t end)
>  	set_pages_state(vaddr, npages, SNP_PAGE_STATE_PRIVATE);
>  }
>  
> +static int vmgexit_ap_control(u64 event, struct sev_es_save_area *vmsa, u32 apic_id)
> +{
> +	bool create = event == SVM_VMGEXIT_AP_CREATE;

Just occurred to me that, while we don't use it, there is another create
event, SVM_VMGEXIT_AP_CREATE_ON_INIT. So maybe change this to

  bool create = event != SVM_VMGEXIT_AP_DESTROY;

Thanks,
Tom