Date:   Mon, 15 Nov 2021 18:44:48 +0000
From:   Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
To:     Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@amd.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH Part2 v5 00/45] Add AMD Secure Nested Paging (SEV-SNP)
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On Mon, Nov 15, 2021, Brijesh Singh wrote:
> 
> On 11/12/21 2:37 PM, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > This is the direction KVM TDX support is headed, though it's obviously still a WIP.
> > 
> 
> Just curious, in this approach, how do you propose handling the host
> kexec/kdump? If a kexec/kdump occurs while the VM is still active, the new
> kernel will encounter the #PF (RMP violation) because some pages are still
> marked 'private' in the RMP table.

There are two basic options: a) eagerly purge the RMP or b) lazily fixup the RMP
on #PF.  Either approach can be made to work.  I'm not opposed to fixing up the RMP
on #PF in the kexec/kdump case, I'm opposed to blindly updating the RMP on _all_
RMP #PFs, i.e. the kernel should modify the RMP if and only if it knows that doing
so is correct.  E.g. a naive lazy-fixup solution would be to track which pages have
been sanitized and adjust the RMP on #PF to a page that hasn't yet been sanitized.