Re: [PATCH v1 15/26] x86/sev: Introduce snp leaked pages list

[Vlastimil Babka]

On 12/30/23 17:19, Michael Roth wrote:
> From: Ashish Kalra <ashish.kalra@xxxxxxx>
> 
> Pages are unsafe to be released back to the page-allocator, if they
> have been transitioned to firmware/guest state and can't be reclaimed
> or transitioned back to hypervisor/shared state. In this case add
> them to an internal leaked pages list to ensure that they are not freed
> or touched/accessed to cause fatal page faults.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ashish Kalra <ashish.kalra@xxxxxxx>
> [mdr: relocate to arch/x86/virt/svm/sev.c]
> Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <michael.roth@xxxxxxx>

Hi, sorry I didn't respond in time to the last mail discussing previous
version in
https://lore.kernel.org/all/8c1fd8da-912a-a9ce-9547-107ba8a450fc@xxxxxxx/
due to upcoming holidays.

I would rather avoid the approach of allocating container objects:
- it's allocating memory when effectively losing memory, a dangerous thing
- are all the callers and their context ok with GFP_KERNEL?
- GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT seems wrong, why would we be charging this to the
current process, it's probably not its fault the pages are leaked? Also the
charging can fail?
- given the benefit of having leaked pages on a list is basically just
debugging (i.e. crash dump or drgn inspection) this seems too heavy

I think it would be better and sufficient to use page->lru for order-0 and
head pages, and simply skip tail pages (possibly with adjusted warning
message for that case).

Vlastimil

<snip>

> +
> +void snp_leak_pages(u64 pfn, unsigned int npages)
> +{
> +	struct page *page = pfn_to_page(pfn);
> +	struct leaked_page *leak;
> +
> +	pr_debug("%s: leaking PFN range 0x%llx-0x%llx\n", __func__, pfn, pfn + npages);
> +
> +	spin_lock(&snp_leaked_pages_list_lock);
> +	while (npages--) {
> +		leak = kzalloc(sizeof(*leak), GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT);
> +		if (!leak)
> +			goto unlock;

Should we skip the dump_rmpentry() in such a case?

> +		leak->page = page;
> +		list_add_tail(&leak->list, &snp_leaked_pages_list);
> +		dump_rmpentry(pfn);
> +		snp_nr_leaked_pages++;
> +		pfn++;
> +		page++;
> +	}
> +unlock:
> +	spin_unlock(&snp_leaked_pages_list_lock);
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(snp_leak_pages);