From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
x86@kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
Kai Huang <kai.huang@linux.intel.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 06/14] mm/page_alloc: Propagate encryption KeyID through page allocator
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2018 13:20:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180329112034.GE31039@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180328165540.648-7-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
On Wed 28-03-18 19:55:32, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> Modify several page allocation routines to pass down encryption KeyID to
> be used for the allocated page.
>
> There are two basic use cases:
>
> - alloc_page_vma() use VMA's KeyID to allocate the page.
>
> - Page migration and NUMA balancing path use KeyID of original page as
> KeyID for newly allocated page.
I am sorry but I am out of time to look closer but this just raised my
eyebrows. This looks like a no-go. The basic allocator has no business
in fancy stuff like a encryption key. If you need something like that
then just build a special allocator API on top. This looks like a no-go
to me.
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-29 11:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-28 16:55 [PATCHv2 00/14] Partial MKTME enabling Kirill A. Shutemov
2018-03-28 16:55 ` [PATCHv2 01/14] x86/mm: Decouple dynamic __PHYSICAL_MASK from AMD SME Kirill A. Shutemov
2018-04-02 21:12 ` Tom Lendacky
2018-03-28 16:55 ` [PATCHv2 02/14] x86/mm: Mask out KeyID bits from page table entry pfn Kirill A. Shutemov
2018-03-28 16:55 ` [PATCHv2 03/14] mm/shmem: Zero out unused vma fields in shmem_pseudo_vma_init() Kirill A. Shutemov
2018-03-28 16:55 ` [PATCHv2 04/14] mm: Do no merge vma with different encryption KeyIDs Kirill A. Shutemov
2018-03-28 16:55 ` [PATCHv2 05/14] mm/khugepaged: Do not collapse pages in encrypted VMAs Kirill A. Shutemov
2018-03-28 16:55 ` [PATCHv2 06/14] mm/page_alloc: Propagate encryption KeyID through page allocator Kirill A. Shutemov
2018-03-28 17:15 ` Dave Hansen
2018-03-29 12:38 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2018-03-29 11:20 ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2018-03-29 12:37 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2018-03-29 12:52 ` Michal Hocko
2018-03-29 13:13 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2018-03-29 13:37 ` Michal Hocko
2018-03-29 14:33 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2018-03-30 8:07 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2018-03-28 16:55 ` [PATCHv2 07/14] mm/page_alloc: Add hook in page allocation path for encrypted pages Kirill A. Shutemov
2018-03-28 16:55 ` [PATCHv2 08/14] mm/page_ext: Drop definition of unused PAGE_EXT_DEBUG_POISON Kirill A. Shutemov
2018-03-29 5:32 ` Vinayak Menon
2018-03-28 16:55 ` [PATCHv2 09/14] x86/mm: Introduce variables to store number, shift and mask of KeyIDs Kirill A. Shutemov
2018-03-28 16:55 ` [PATCHv2 10/14] x86/mm: Preserve KeyID on pte_modify() and pgprot_modify() Kirill A. Shutemov
2018-03-28 16:55 ` [PATCHv2 11/14] x86/mm: Implement vma_is_encrypted() and vma_keyid() Kirill A. Shutemov
2018-03-28 16:55 ` [PATCHv2 12/14] x86/mm: Implement page_keyid() using page_ext Kirill A. Shutemov
2018-03-28 16:59 ` Dave Hansen
2018-03-29 12:43 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2018-03-28 16:55 ` [PATCHv2 13/14] x86/mm: Implement prep_encrypted_page() Kirill A. Shutemov
2018-03-28 16:55 ` [PATCHv2 14/14] x86: Introduce CONFIG_X86_INTEL_MKTME Kirill A. Shutemov
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