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charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspam-User: X-Stat-Signature: qxzsopx4o6ckqxem8qew1mmenkuyom1n X-Rspamd-Server: rspam07 X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 3E8B120008 X-HE-Tag: 1709291171-567051 X-HE-Meta: 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 2rAgNPCV Ha5LCY+47h5PLhjAjqbKjN5I4vtRBjtRtguhtPNiXc/mx5MQs2vcZmzJ07JKlP7xBoVe5Lj4GkXH7z1gdcBO80EJqh0eYEAZZsqo6rL6aYFkG5lLVAiEA6g9UKQsDoy982jFgNjRKJzr4/rBgN0KLhIfu5sUUY5QI/WJd7wHyCilDIBS/qevjvLaXkhfKlyqjoLF385zWMNwt+tUVvreqmNr9m6mdwKecYgPd1+R0J1JG9hAv7dDr/WuVCGLhCyNGed5BBl2VIMft+X5ihzIFkUvBslaUO/ArdIFB X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Precedence: bulk X-Loop: owner-majordomo@kvack.org List-ID: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: On 29.02.24 20:01, Fuad Tabba wrote: > Hi David, > > ... > Hi! >>>>> "mmap() the whole thing once and only access what you are supposed to >>> (> > > access" sounds reasonable to me. If you don't play by the rules, you get a >>>>>> signal. >>>>> >>>>> "... you get a signal, or maybe you don't". But yes I understand your >>>>> point, and as per the above there are real benefits to this approach so >>>>> why not. >>>>> >>>>> What do we expect userspace to do when a page goes from shared back to >>>>> being guest-private, because e.g. the guest decides to unshare? Use >>>>> munmap() on that page? Or perhaps an madvise() call of some sort? Note >>>>> that this will be needed when starting a guest as well, as userspace >>>>> needs to copy the guest payload in the guestmem file prior to starting >>>>> the protected VM. >>>> >>>> Let's assume we have the whole guest_memfd mapped exactly once in our >>>> process, a single VMA. >>>> >>>> When setting up the VM, we'll write the payload and then fire up the VM. >>>> >>>> That will (I assume) trigger some shared -> private conversion. >>>> >>>> When we want to convert shared -> private in the kernel, we would first >>>> check if the page is currently mapped. If it is, we could try unmapping that >>>> page using an rmap walk. >>> >>> I had not considered that. That would most certainly be slow, but a well >>> behaved userspace process shouldn't hit it so, that's probably not a >>> problem... >> >> If there really only is a single VMA that covers the page (or even mmaps >> the guest_memfd), it should not be too bad. For example, any >> fallocate(PUNCHHOLE) has to do the same, to unmap the page before >> discarding it from the pagecache. > > I don't think that we can assume that only a single VMA covers a page. > >> But of course, no rmap walk is always better. > > We've been thinking some more about how to handle the case where the > host userspace has a mapping of a page that later becomes private. > > One idea is to refuse to run the guest (i.e., exit vcpu_run() to back > to the host with a meaningful exit reason) until the host unmaps that > page, and check for the refcount to the page as you mentioned earlier. > This is essentially what the RFC I sent does (minus the bugs :) ) . :) > > The other idea is to use the rmap walk as you suggested to zap that > page. If the host tries to access that page again, it would get a > SIGBUS on the fault. This has the advantage that, as you'd mentioned, > the host doesn't need to constantly mmap() and munmap() pages. It > could potentially be optimised further as suggested if we have a > cooperating VMM that would issue a MADV_DONTNEED or something like > that, but that's just an optimisation and we would still need to have > the option of the rmap walk. However, I was wondering how practical > this idea would be if more than a single VMA covers a page? A few VMAs won't make a difference I assume. Any idea how many "sharers" you'd expect in a sane configuration? > > Also, there's the question of what to do if the page is gupped? In > this case I think the only thing we can do is refuse to run the guest > until the gup (and all references) are released, which also brings us > back to the way things (kind of) are... Indeed. There is no way you could possibly make progress. -- Cheers, David / dhildenb