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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH v5 038/104] KVM: x86/mmu: Allow per-VM override of the TDP max page level
On Fri, Apr 01, 2022, Kai Huang wrote:
> On Fri, 2022-03-04 at 11:48 -0800, isaku.yamahata@intel.com wrote:
> > From: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
> >
> > In the existing x86 KVM MMU code, there is already max_level member in
> > struct kvm_page_fault with KVM_MAX_HUGEPAGE_LEVEL initial value. The KVM
> > page fault handler denies page size larger than max_level.
> >
> > Add per-VM member to indicate the allowed maximum page size with
> > KVM_MAX_HUGEPAGE_LEVEL as default value and initialize max_level in struct
> > kvm_page_fault with it.
> >
> > For the guest TD, the set per-VM value for allows maximum page size to 4K
> > page size. Then only allowed page size is 4K. It means large page is
> > disabled.
>
> Do not support large page for TD is the reason that you want this change, but
> not the result. Please refine a little bit.

Not supporting huge pages was fine for the PoC, but I'd prefer not to merge TDX
without support for huge pages. Has any work been put into enabling huge pages?
If so, what's the technical blocker? If not...

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