Re: [PATCH v19 048/130] KVM: Allow page-sized MMU caches to be initialized with custom 64-bit values

From: Binbin Wu
Date: Tue Mar 26 2024 - 11:55:12 EST




On 2/26/2024 4:25 PM, isaku.yamahata@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>

Add support to MMU caches for initializing a page with a custom 64-bit
value, e.g. to pre-fill an entire page table with non-zero PTE values.
The functionality will be used by x86 to support Intel's TDX, which needs
to set bit 63 in all non-present PTEs in order to prevent !PRESENT page
faults from getting reflected into the guest (Intel's EPT Violation #VE
architecture made the less than brilliant decision of having the per-PTE
behavior be opt-out instead of opt-in).

Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Isaku Yamahata <isaku.yamahata@xxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/kvm_types.h | 1 +
virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 16 ++++++++++++++--
2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/kvm_types.h b/include/linux/kvm_types.h
index 9d1f7835d8c1..60c8d5c9eab9 100644
--- a/include/linux/kvm_types.h
+++ b/include/linux/kvm_types.h
@@ -94,6 +94,7 @@ struct gfn_to_pfn_cache {
struct kvm_mmu_memory_cache {
gfp_t gfp_zero;
gfp_t gfp_custom;
+ u64 init_value;
struct kmem_cache *kmem_cache;
int capacity;
int nobjs;
diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
index de38f308738e..d399009ef1d7 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -401,12 +401,17 @@ static void kvm_flush_shadow_all(struct kvm *kvm)
static inline void *mmu_memory_cache_alloc_obj(struct kvm_mmu_memory_cache *mc,
gfp_t gfp_flags)
{
+ void *page;
+
gfp_flags |= mc->gfp_zero;
if (mc->kmem_cache)
return kmem_cache_alloc(mc->kmem_cache, gfp_flags);
- else
- return (void *)__get_free_page(gfp_flags);
+
+ page = (void *)__get_free_page(gfp_flags);
+ if (page && mc->init_value)
+ memset64(page, mc->init_value, PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(mc->init_value));

Do we need a static_assert() to make sure mc->init_value is 64bit?

+ return page;
}
int __kvm_mmu_topup_memory_cache(struct kvm_mmu_memory_cache *mc, int capacity, int min)
@@ -421,6 +426,13 @@ int __kvm_mmu_topup_memory_cache(struct kvm_mmu_memory_cache *mc, int capacity,
if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!capacity))
return -EIO;
+ /*
+ * Custom init values can be used only for page allocations,
+ * and obviously conflict with __GFP_ZERO.
+ */
+ if (WARN_ON_ONCE(mc->init_value && (mc->kmem_cache || mc->gfp_zero)))
+ return -EIO;
+
mc->objects = kvmalloc_array(sizeof(void *), capacity, gfp);
if (!mc->objects)
return -ENOMEM;