[PATCH v12 13/13] x86/kvm: Add kexec support for SEV Live Migration.

Steve Rutherford srutherford at google.com
Tue Apr 13 01:22:57 BST 2021


On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 12:48 PM Ashish Kalra <Ashish.Kalra at amd.com> wrote:
>
> From: Ashish Kalra <ashish.kalra at amd.com>
>
> Reset the host's shared pages list related to kernel
> specific page encryption status settings before we load a
> new kernel by kexec. We cannot reset the complete
> shared pages list here as we need to retain the
> UEFI/OVMF firmware specific settings.
>
> The host's shared pages list is maintained for the
> guest to keep track of all unencrypted guest memory regions,
> therefore we need to explicitly mark all shared pages as
> encrypted again before rebooting into the new guest kernel.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ashish Kalra <ashish.kalra at amd.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 24 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
> index bcc82e0c9779..4ad3ed547ff1 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c
> @@ -39,6 +39,7 @@
>  #include <asm/cpuidle_haltpoll.h>
>  #include <asm/ptrace.h>
>  #include <asm/svm.h>
> +#include <asm/e820/api.h>
>
>  DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(kvm_async_pf_enabled);
>
> @@ -384,6 +385,29 @@ static void kvm_pv_guest_cpu_reboot(void *unused)
>          */
>         if (kvm_para_has_feature(KVM_FEATURE_PV_EOI))
>                 wrmsrl(MSR_KVM_PV_EOI_EN, 0);
> +       /*
> +        * Reset the host's shared pages list related to kernel
> +        * specific page encryption status settings before we load a
> +        * new kernel by kexec. NOTE: We cannot reset the complete
> +        * shared pages list here as we need to retain the
> +        * UEFI/OVMF firmware specific settings.
> +        */
> +       if (sev_live_migration_enabled & (smp_processor_id() == 0)) {
What happens if the reboot of CPU0 races with another CPU servicing a
device request (while the reboot is pending for that CPU)?
Seems like you could run into a scenario where you have hypercalls racing.

Calling this on every core isn't free, but it is an easy way to avoid this race.
You could also count cores, and have only last core do the job, but
that seems more complicated.

Steve
> +               int i;
> +               unsigned long nr_pages;
> +
> +               for (i = 0; i < e820_table->nr_entries; i++) {
> +                       struct e820_entry *entry = &e820_table->entries[i];
> +
> +                       if (entry->type != E820_TYPE_RAM)
> +                               continue;
> +
> +                       nr_pages = DIV_ROUND_UP(entry->size, PAGE_SIZE);
> +
> +                       kvm_sev_hypercall3(KVM_HC_PAGE_ENC_STATUS,
> +                                          entry->addr, nr_pages, 1);
> +               }
> +       }
>         kvm_pv_disable_apf();
>         kvm_disable_steal_time();
>  }
> --
> 2.17.1
>



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