Re: [PATCH RFC v7 07/64] KVM: SEV: Handle KVM_HC_MAP_GPA_RANGE hypercall

[Nikunj A. Dadhania]

On 13/01/23 21:47, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 13, 2023, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 14, 2022 at 01:39:59PM -0600, Michael Roth wrote:
>>> From: Nikunj A Dadhania <nikunj@xxxxxxx>
>>>
>>> KVM_HC_MAP_GPA_RANGE hypercall is used by the SEV guest to notify a
>>> change in the page encryption status to the hypervisor.
>>>
>>> The hypercall exits to userspace with KVM_EXIT_HYPERCALL exit code,
>>> currently this is used for explicit memory conversion between
>>> shared/private for memfd based private memory.
>>
>> So Tom and I spent a while to figure out what this is doing...
>>
>> Please explain in more detail what that is. Like the hypercall gets ignored for
>> memslots which cannot be private...?

This was required when we were using per memslot bitmap for storing the 
private information, mem_attr_array is not dependent on memslot anymore.

> 
> Don't bother, just drop the patch.  

Agree, we can drop this. I have tested SEV without this patch.

> It's perfectly legal for userspace to create the private memslot in response > to a guest request.

Sean, did not understand this part, how could a memslot be created on a guest request?

Regards
Nikunj