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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RHEL-8.1 virt 0/2] Enable SEV VM to boot with assigned
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Paolo Bonzini |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RHEL-8.1 virt 0/2] Enable SEV VM to boot with assigned PCI device |
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Fri, 26 Apr 2019 10:10:06 +0200 |
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On 10/04/19 02:08, Gary R Hook wrote:
> Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1667249
>
> On an AMD SEV enabled host with an SEV enabled guest, attaching an
> assigned device to the VM results in a failure to start the VM:
>
> qemu-kvm: -device vfio-pci,host=01:00.0,id=hostdev0,bus=pci.2,addr=0x0:
> sev_ram_block_added: failed to register region (0x7fd96e6bb000+0x20000) error
> 'Cannot allocate memory'
>
> In this example the assigned device is a simple Intel 82574L NIC:
>
> 01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82574L Gigabit Network
> Connection
> Subsystem: Intel Corporation Gigabit CT Desktop Adapter
> Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 89, NUMA node 0
> Memory at fb9c0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
> Memory at fb900000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
>
> Note that the error indicates the region as (base+size) where a size
> of 0x20000 is 128K, which matches that of BAR0 for the device.
> dmesg on the host also reports:
>
> SVM: SEV: Failure locking 32 pages.
>
> SEV guests make use of the RAMBlock notifier in QEMU to add page
> pinnings for SEV; the kernel side of the call only knows how to pin
> pages with get_user_pages(), and this currently faults on non-page
> backed mappings (e.g. the mmap of an MMIO BAR).
>
> To resolve this failure, change the order of the memory region type
> assignment and avoid pinning device memory regions.
>
> Cc: "Danilo C. L. de Paula" <address@hidden>
> Cc: Eduardo Habkost <address@hidden>
> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Cc: Richard Henderson <address@hidden>
>
> Danilo C. L. de Paula (2):
> redhat: branching qemu-kvm to rhel-8.1.0
> redhat: renaming branch to rhel-8.1.0
>
> Gary R Hook (2):
> Subject: memory: Fix the memory region type assignment order
> Subject: target/i386: sev: Do not pin the ram device memory region
>
> .gitpublish | 6 +++---
> memory.c | 9 ++++++++-
> target/i386/sev.c | 11 +++++++++++
> 3 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden>