Re: [PATCH v4] kvm,x86: Exit to user space in case page fault error

From: Sean Christopherson
Date: Tue Oct 06 2020 - 12:15:21 EST


On Tue, Oct 06, 2020 at 05:24:54PM +0200, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
> Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > So you will have to report token (along with -EFAULT) to user space. So this
> > is basically the 3rd proposal which is extension of kvm API and will
> > report say HVA/GFN also to user space along with -EFAULT.
>
> Right, I meant to say that guest kernel has full register state of the
> userspace process which caused APF to get queued and instead of trying
> to extract it in KVM and pass to userspace in case of a (later) failure
> we limit KVM api change to contain token or GFN only and somehow keep
> the rest in the guest. This should help with TDX/SEV-ES.

Whatever gets reported to userspace should be identical with and without
async page faults, i.e. it definitely shouldn't have token information.

Note, TDX doesn't allow injection exceptions, so reflecting a #PF back
into the guest is not an option. Nor do I think that's "correct"
behavior (see everyone's objections to using #PF for APF fixed). I.e. the
event should probably be an IRQ.