Re: [PATCH -V3] x86/tdx, memory hotplug: Check whole hot-adding memory range for TDX

[Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>]

On Tue, Oct 22, 2024 at 11:16:17AM +0800, Huang Ying wrote:
> On systems with TDX (Trust Domain eXtensions) enabled, current kernel
> checks the TDX compatibility of the hot-added memory ranges through a
> memory hotplug notifier for each memory_block.  If a memory range
> which isn't TDX compatible is hot-added, for example, some CXL memory,
> the command line as follows,
> 
>   $ echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/memoryY/online
> 
> will report something like,
> 
>   bash: echo: write error: Operation not permitted
> 
> If pr_debug() is enabled, current kernel will show the error message
> like below in the kernel log,
> 
>   online_pages [mem 0xXXXXXXXXXX-0xXXXXXXXXXX] failed
> 
> Both are too general to root cause the problem.  This may confuse
> users.  One solution is to print some error messages in the TDX memory
> hotplug notifier.  However, kernel calls memory hotplug notifiers for
> each memory block, so this may lead to a large volume of messages in
> the kernel log if a large number of memory blocks are onlined with a
> script or automatically.  For example, the typical size of memory
> block is 128MB on x86_64, when online 64GB CXL memory, 512 messages
> will be logged.
> 
> Therefore, this patch checks the TDX compatibility of the whole
> hot-adding memory range through a newly added architecture specific
> function (arch_check_hotplug_memory_range()).  If this patch rejects
> the memory hot-adding for TDX compatibility, it will output a kernel
> log message like below,
> 
>   virt/tdx: Reject hot-adding memory range: 0xXXXXXXXX-0xXXXXXXXX for TDX compatibility.
> 
> The target use case is to support CXL memory on TDX enabled systems.
> If the CXL memory isn't compatible with TDX, the kernel will reject
> the whole CXL memory range.  While the CXL memory can still be used
> via devdax interface.
> 
> This also makes the original TDX memory hotplug notifier useless, so
> this patch deletes it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>

Acked-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>

One question below:

...

> +int tdx_check_hotplug_memory_range(u64 start, u64 size)
>  {
> -	struct memory_notify *mn = v;
> -
> -	if (action != MEM_GOING_ONLINE)
> -		return NOTIFY_OK;
> +	u64 start_pfn = PHYS_PFN(start);
> +	u64 end_pfn = PHYS_PFN(start + size);
>  
>  	/*
>  	 * Empty list means TDX isn't enabled.  Allow any memory
> -	 * to go online.
> +	 * to be hot-added.
>  	 */
>  	if (list_empty(&tdx_memlist))
> -		return NOTIFY_OK;
> +		return 0;
>  
>  	/*
>  	 * The TDX memory configuration is static and can not be
> -	 * changed.  Reject onlining any memory which is outside of
> +	 * changed.  Reject hot-adding any memory which is outside of
>  	 * the static configuration whether it supports TDX or not.
>  	 */
> -	if (is_tdx_memory(mn->start_pfn, mn->start_pfn + mn->nr_pages))
> -		return NOTIFY_OK;
> +	if (is_tdx_memory(start_pfn, end_pfn))
> +		return 0;
>  
> -	return NOTIFY_BAD;
> +	pr_info("Reject hot-adding memory range: %#llx-%#llx for TDX compatibility.\n",
> +		start, start + size);

Why not using pr_err() here?

I was checking which kind of information level we use when failing at
hot-adding memory, and we seem to be using pr_err(), and pr_debug() when
onlining/offlining.

Not a big deal, and not saying it is wrong, but was just wondering the reasoning
behind.


-- 
Oscar Salvador
SUSE Labs