On 9/3/19 10:51 PM, Dave Hansen wrote:
On 9/3/19 1:36 PM, Thomas Hellström (VMware) wrote:
So the question here should really be, can we determine already at mmap time whether backing memory will be unencrypted and adjust the *real* vma->vm_page_prot under the mmap_sem?
Possibly, but that requires populating the buffer with memory at mmap time rather than at first fault time.
I'm not connecting the dots.
vma->vm_page_prot is used to create a VMA's PTEs regardless of if they are created at mmap() or fault time. If we establish a good vma->vm_page_prot, can't we just use it forever for demand faults?
With SEV I think that we could possibly establish the encryption flags at vma creation time. But thinking of it, it would actually break with SME where buffer content can be moved between encrypted system memory and unencrypted graphics card PCI memory behind user-space's back. That would imply killing all user-space encrypted PTEs and at fault time set up new ones pointing to unencrypted PCI memory..
Or, are you concerned that if an attempt is made to demand-fault page that's incompatible with vma->vm_page_prot that we have to SEGV?
And it still requires knowledge whether the device DMA is always unencrypted (or if SEV is active).
I may be getting mixed up on MKTME (the Intel memory encryption) and SEV. Is SEV supported on all memory types? Page cache, hugetlbfs, anonymous? Or just anonymous?
SEV AFAIK encrypts *all* memory except DMA memory. To do that it uses a SWIOTLB backed by unencrypted memory, and it also flips coherent DMA memory to unencrypted (which is a very slow operation and patch 4 deals with caching such memory).
/Thomas