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Message-ID: <20210506000013.GE1068722@iweiny-DESK2.sc.intel.com>
Date: Wed, 5 May 2021 17:00:13 -0700
From: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@...el.com>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@...el.com>, dave.hansen@...el.com,
luto@...nel.org, peterz@...radead.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/9] PKS write protected page tables
On Tue, May 04, 2021 at 11:25:31PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Tue, May 04, 2021 at 05:30:23PM -0700, Rick Edgecombe wrote:
>
> > Performance impacts
> > ===================
> > Setting direct map permissions on whatever random page gets allocated for a
> > page table would result in a lot of kernel range shootdowns and direct map
> > large page shattering. So the way the PKS page table memory is created is
> > similar to this module page clustering series[2], where a cache of pages is
> > replenished from 2MB pages such that the direct map permissions and associated
> > breakage is localized on the direct map. In the PKS page tables case, a PKS
> > key is pre-applied to the direct map for pages in the cache.
> >
> > There would be some costs of memory overhead in order to protect the direct
> > map page tables. There would also be some extra kernel range shootdowns to
> > replenish the cache on occasion, from setting the PKS key on the direct map of
> > the new pages. I don’t have any actual performance data yet.
>
> What CPU models are expected to have PKS?
Supervisor Memory Protection Keys (PKS) is a feature which is found on Intel’s
Sapphire Rapids (and later) “Scalable Processor” Server CPUs. It will also be
available in future non-server Intel parts.
Also qemu has some support as well.
https://www.qemu.org/2021/04/30/qemu-6-0-0/
Ira
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