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Date:   Tue, 6 Oct 2020 12:24:06 -0400
From:   Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
To:     Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Cc:     Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] kvm,x86: Exit to user space in case page fault error
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On Tue, Oct 06, 2020 at 09:12:00AM -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 06, 2020 at 05:24:54PM +0200, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
> > Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> 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.

I am not sure if IRQ for "Page not Present" works. Will it have some
conflicts/issues with other high priority interrupts which can
get injected before "Page not present".

Vivek