From: "Edgecombe, Rick P" <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>
To: "Zhao, Yan Y" <yan.y.zhao@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 11/17] KVM: TDX: Honor the guest's accept level contained in an EPT violation
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2026 16:14:39 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f08437832e1addf15f533c858941ff20db15a9c7.camel@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <asnQX6O+tPwK+7wl@yzhao56-desk.sh.intel.com>
On Sat, 2026-10-10 at 13:42 +0800, Yan Zhao wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 10, 2026 at 06:00:01AM +0800, Edgecombe, Rick P wrote:
> > On Fri, 2026-10-09 at 17:33 +0800, Yan Zhao wrote:
> > > On Thu, Oct 08, 2026 at 09:05:32AM +0800, Edgecombe, Rick P wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 2026-09-28 at 17:11 +0800, Yan Zhao wrote:
> > >
> > > @@ -2183,7 +2172,13 @@ static int
> > > tdx_handle_guest_accept_ept_violation(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gfn_t gf
> > > return 0;
> > >
> > > level = tdx_get_ept_violation_level(vcpu);
> > > - if (level > PG_LEVEL_2M)
> > > + KVM_BUG_ON(level != PG_LEVEL_2M && level != PG_LEVEL_4K, kvm);
> > > +
> > > + /*
> > > + * No need to inhibit 1GB mappings since they are unsupported with
> > > + * the initial huge page implementation.
> >
> > This also implies 1GB is coming...
> What about simply commenting as
> "No need to inhibit 1GB mappings since they are unsupported." ?
Seems reasonable.
>
> > > + */
> > > + if (level == PG_LEVEL_2M)
> > > return 0;
> > >
> > > if (hugepage_test_guest_inhibit(slot, gfn, level + 1))
> > > @@ -2203,8 +2198,6 @@ static int
> > > tdx_handle_guest_accept_ept_violation(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gfn_t gf
> > > * sequence required by the TDX-Module includes a TLB flush.
> > > */
> > > hugepage_set_guest_inhibit(slot, gfn, level + 1);
> > > - if (level == PG_LEVEL_4K)
> > > - hugepage_set_guest_inhibit(slot, gfn, level + 2);
> > >
> > > return 0;
> > > }
> > >
> >
> > There are a lot of possible things that are not handled if a 1GB mapping
> > sneaks
> > through.
> >
> > Why not KVM_BUG_ON() if something tries to map 1GB in the appropriate
> > tdx_sept_set_private_spte() sub functions. tdx_sept_split_leaf_spte() should
> > be
> > covered already, but not tdx_sept_map_leaf_spte() looks like.
> Hmm, there's an implicit KVM_BUG_ON() inside tdx_sept_map_leaf_spte() about
> the
> mapping level: both tdx_mem_page_aug() and tdx_mem_page_add() return error if
> the mapping level is 1GB.
Oh right. So it's covered. I guess the only thing missing is explicit KVM_BUG_ON
for documentation. I'm ok leaving it out though.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-12 16:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-28 9:07 [PATCH v4 00/17] KVM: TDX huge page support for private memory Yan Zhao
2026-09-28 9:08 ` [PATCH v4 01/17] x86/virt/tdx: Enhance tdx_pamt_get/put() to support huge pages Yan Zhao
2026-10-01 23:02 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2026-10-10 10:18 ` Yan Zhao
2026-10-12 23:18 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2026-09-28 9:08 ` [PATCH v4 02/17] x86/virt/tdx: Add a SEAMCALL wrapper to demote a 2MB huge page Yan Zhao
2026-10-02 0:54 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2026-10-12 9:31 ` Yan Zhao
2026-10-12 22:16 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2026-09-28 9:08 ` [PATCH v4 03/17] KVM: TDX: Reset private huge pages after S-EPT page removal Yan Zhao
2026-10-07 0:06 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2026-10-10 9:22 ` Yan Zhao
2026-09-28 9:09 ` [PATCH v4 04/17] KVM: x86/mmu: Prevent huge page promotion for mirror roots in fault path Yan Zhao
2026-10-07 0:32 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2026-09-28 9:09 ` [PATCH v4 05/17] KVM: x86/tdp_mmu: Alloc external_spt page for mirror page table splitting Yan Zhao
2026-10-07 0:33 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2026-10-10 7:41 ` Yan Zhao
2026-09-28 9:10 ` [PATCH v4 06/17] KVM: x86/mmu: Allocate DPAMT pages for vCPU-induced page split Yan Zhao
2026-10-07 15:45 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2026-10-10 6:37 ` Yan Zhao
2026-10-10 6:40 ` Yan Zhao
2026-10-12 16:41 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2026-09-28 9:10 ` [PATCH v4 07/17] KVM: TDX: Add core support for splitting/demoting 2MB S-EPT mappings to 4KB Yan Zhao
2026-10-07 21:52 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2026-10-10 6:34 ` Yan Zhao
2026-10-12 16:40 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2026-09-28 9:10 ` [PATCH v4 08/17] KVM: TDX: Adjust the topup count of DPAMT page pairs for splitting S-EPT Yan Zhao
2026-10-07 22:48 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2026-10-08 1:16 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2026-10-09 9:08 ` Yan Zhao
2026-10-09 22:12 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2026-10-10 5:13 ` Yan Zhao
2026-10-12 16:36 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2026-10-09 8:39 ` Yan Zhao
2026-10-09 22:11 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2026-10-10 5:18 ` Yan Zhao
2026-09-28 9:10 ` [PATCH v4 09/17] KVM: x86/mmu: Introduce hugepage_set_guest_inhibit() Yan Zhao
2026-10-07 23:57 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2026-10-10 6:00 ` Yan Zhao
2026-09-28 9:11 ` [PATCH v4 10/17] KVM: x86/mmu: Add a TDP MMU API to split huge pages for mirror roots Yan Zhao
2026-10-08 0:25 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2026-09-28 9:11 ` [PATCH v4 11/17] KVM: TDX: Honor the guest's accept level contained in an EPT violation Yan Zhao
2026-10-08 1:05 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2026-10-09 9:33 ` Yan Zhao
2026-10-09 22:00 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2026-10-10 5:42 ` Yan Zhao
2026-10-12 16:14 ` Edgecombe, Rick P [this message]
2026-09-28 9:11 ` [PATCH v4 12/17] KVM: x86/mmu: Add support for splitting S-EPT entry under non-vCPU context Yan Zhao
2026-09-28 9:11 ` [PATCH v4 13/17] [GMEM-DEPENDENT] KVM: guest_memfd: Add helpers to get start/end gfns give gmem+slot+pgoff Yan Zhao
2026-10-08 23:16 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2026-09-28 9:11 ` [PATCH v4 14/17] [GMEM-DEPENDENT] KVM: guest_memfd: Split kvm_gmem_invalidate_start() to start() and zap() Yan Zhao
2026-09-28 9:12 ` [PATCH v4 15/17] [GMEM-DEPENDENT] KVM: guest_memfd: Add a pre-zap hook .gmem_prezap() Yan Zhao
2026-09-28 9:12 ` [PATCH v4 16/17] [GMEM-DEPENDENT] KVM: TDX: Implement .gmem_prezap() hook to split S-EPT Yan Zhao
2026-09-28 9:12 ` [PATCH v4 17/17] KVM: TDX: Turn on PG_LEVEL_2M Yan Zhao
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