Re: [PATCH v8 1/2] x86/tdx: Retry TDVMCALL_MAP_GPA() when needed

[Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy]

Hi,

On 6/20/23 8:48 AM, Dexuan Cui wrote:
> GHCI spec for TDX 1.0 says that the MapGPA call may fail with the R10
> error code = TDG.VP.VMCALL_RETRY (1), and the guest must retry this
> operation for the pages in the region starting at the GPA specified
> in R11.
> 
> When a fully enlightened TDX guest runs on Hyper-V, Hyper-V can return
> the retry error when set_memory_decrypted() is called to decrypt up to
> 1GB of swiotlb bounce buffers.
> 
> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Michael Kelley <mikelley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Dexuan Cui <decui@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 
>  arch/x86/coco/tdx/tdx.c           | 63 +++++++++++++++++++++++++------
>  arch/x86/include/asm/shared/tdx.h |  2 +
>  2 files changed, 53 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
> 
> Changes in v2:
>   Used __tdx_hypercall() directly in tdx_map_gpa().
>   Added a max_retry_cnt of 1000.
>   Renamed a few variables, e.g., r11 -> map_fail_paddr.
> 
> Changes in v3:
>   Changed max_retry_cnt from 1000 to 3.
> 
> Changes in v4:
>   __tdx_hypercall(&args, TDX_HCALL_HAS_OUTPUT) -> __tdx_hypercall_ret()
>   Added Kirill's Acked-by.
> 
> Changes in v5:
>   Added Michael's Reviewed-by.
> 
> Changes in v6: None.
> 
> Changes in v7:
>   Addressed Dave's comments:
>   see https://lwn.net/ml/linux-kernel/SA1PR21MB1335736123C2BCBBFD7460C3BF46A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> Changes in v8:
>   Rebased to tip.git's master branch.
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/coco/tdx/tdx.c b/arch/x86/coco/tdx/tdx.c
> index 1d6b863c42b0..0c198ab73aa7 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/coco/tdx/tdx.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/coco/tdx/tdx.c
> @@ -703,14 +703,16 @@ static bool tdx_cache_flush_required(void)
>  }
>  
>  /*
> - * Inform the VMM of the guest's intent for this physical page: shared with
> - * the VMM or private to the guest.  The VMM is expected to change its mapping
> - * of the page in response.
> + * Notify the VMM about page mapping conversion. More info about ABI
> + * can be found in TDX Guest-Host-Communication Interface (GHCI),
> + * section "TDG.VP.VMCALL<MapGPA>".
>   */
> -static bool tdx_enc_status_changed(unsigned long vaddr, int numpages, bool enc)
> +static bool tdx_map_gpa(phys_addr_t start, phys_addr_t end, bool enc)
>  {
> -	phys_addr_t start = __pa(vaddr);
> -	phys_addr_t end   = __pa(vaddr + numpages * PAGE_SIZE);
> +	const int max_retries_per_page = 3;

Add some details about why you chose 3? Maybe you can also use macro for it.

> +	struct tdx_hypercall_args args;
> +	u64 map_fail_paddr, ret;
> +	int retry_count = 0;
>  
>  	if (!enc) {
>  		/* Set the shared (decrypted) bits: */
> @@ -718,12 +720,49 @@ static bool tdx_enc_status_changed(unsigned long vaddr, int numpages, bool enc)
>  		end   |= cc_mkdec(0);
>  	}
>  
> -	/*
> -	 * Notify the VMM about page mapping conversion. More info about ABI
> -	 * can be found in TDX Guest-Host-Communication Interface (GHCI),
> -	 * section "TDG.VP.VMCALL<MapGPA>"
> -	 */
> -	if (_tdx_hypercall(TDVMCALL_MAP_GPA, start, end - start, 0, 0))
> +	while (retry_count < max_retries_per_page) {
> +		memset(&args, 0, sizeof(args));
> +		args.r10 = TDX_HYPERCALL_STANDARD;
> +		args.r11 = TDVMCALL_MAP_GPA;
> +		args.r12 = start;
> +		args.r13 = end - start;
> +
> +		ret = __tdx_hypercall_ret(&args);
> +		if (ret != TDVMCALL_STATUS_RETRY)
> +			return !ret;
> +		/*
> +		 * The guest must retry the operation for the pages in the
> +		 * region starting at the GPA specified in R11. R11 comes
> +		 * from the untrusted VMM. Sanity check it.
> +		 */
> +		map_fail_paddr = args.r11;

Do you really need map_fail_paddr? Why not directly use args.r11?

> +		if (map_fail_paddr < start || map_fail_paddr >= end)
> +			return false;
> +
> +		/* "Consume" a retry without forward progress */
> +		if (map_fail_paddr == start) {
> +			retry_count++;
> +			continue;
> +		}
> +
> +		start = map_fail_paddr;
> +		retry_count = 0;
> +	}
> +
> +	return false;
> +}
> +
> +/*
> + * Inform the VMM of the guest's intent for this physical page: shared with
> + * the VMM or private to the guest.  The VMM is expected to change its mapping
> + * of the page in response.
> + */
> +static bool tdx_enc_status_changed(unsigned long vaddr, int numpages, bool enc)
> +{
> +	phys_addr_t start = __pa(vaddr);
> +	phys_addr_t end   = __pa(vaddr + numpages * PAGE_SIZE);
> +
> +	if (!tdx_map_gpa(start, end, enc))
>  		return false;
>  
>  	/* shared->private conversion requires memory to be accepted before use */
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/shared/tdx.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/shared/tdx.h
> index 90ea813c4b99..9db89a99ae5b 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/shared/tdx.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/shared/tdx.h
> @@ -24,6 +24,8 @@
>  #define TDVMCALL_MAP_GPA		0x10001
>  #define TDVMCALL_REPORT_FATAL_ERROR	0x10003
>  
> +#define TDVMCALL_STATUS_RETRY		1
> +
>  #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
>  
>  /*

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Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy
Linux Kernel Developer