From: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>
To: kas@kernel.org, bp@alien8.de, chao.gao@intel.com,
dave.hansen@linux.intel.com, isaku.yamahata@intel.com,
kai.huang@intel.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
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Cc: rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com,
"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 16/16] Documentation/x86: Add documentation for TDX's Dynamic PAMT
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2025 16:22:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250918232224.2202592-17-rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250918232224.2202592-1-rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>
From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Expand TDX documentation to include information on the Dynamic PAMT
feature.
The new section explains PAMT support in the TDX module and how Dynamic
PAMT affects the kernel memory use.
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
[Add feedback, update log]
Signed-off-by: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>
---
v3:
- Trim down docs to be about things that user cares about, instead
of development history and other details like this.
---
Documentation/arch/x86/tdx.rst | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/arch/x86/tdx.rst b/Documentation/arch/x86/tdx.rst
index 719043cd8b46..d07132c99cc6 100644
--- a/Documentation/arch/x86/tdx.rst
+++ b/Documentation/arch/x86/tdx.rst
@@ -99,6 +99,27 @@ initialize::
[..] virt/tdx: module initialization failed ...
+Dynamic PAMT
+------------
+
+PAMT is memory that the TDX module needs to keep data about each page
+(think like struct page). It needs to handed to the TDX module for its
+exclusive use. For normal PAMT, this is installed when the TDX module
+is first loaded and comes to about 0.4% of system memory.
+
+Dynamic PAMT is a TDX feature that allows VMM to allocate part of the
+PAMT as needed (the parts for tracking 4KB size pages). The other page
+sizes (1GB and 2MB) are still allocated statically at the time of
+TDX module initialization. This reduces the amount of memory that TDX
+uses while TDs are not in use.
+
+When Dynamic PAMT is in use, dmesg shows it like:
+ [..] virt/tdx: Enable Dynamic PAMT
+ [..] virt/tdx: 10092 KB allocated for PAMT
+ [..] virt/tdx: module initialized
+
+Dynamic PAMT is enabled automatically if supported.
+
TDX Interaction to Other Kernel Components
------------------------------------------
--
2.51.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-09-18 23:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 97+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-09-18 23:22 [PATCH v3 00/16] TDX: Enable " Rick Edgecombe
2025-09-18 23:22 ` [PATCH v3 01/16] x86/tdx: Move all TDX error defines into <asm/shared/tdx_errno.h> Rick Edgecombe
2025-09-19 1:29 ` Huang, Kai
2025-09-25 23:23 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2025-09-25 23:32 ` Huang, Kai
2025-09-23 5:49 ` Binbin Wu
2025-09-25 23:09 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2025-09-26 5:36 ` Binbin Wu
2025-09-26 4:52 ` Xiaoyao Li
2025-09-26 19:53 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2025-09-18 23:22 ` [PATCH v3 02/16] x86/tdx: Add helpers to check return status codes Rick Edgecombe
2025-09-19 1:26 ` Huang, Kai
2025-09-25 23:27 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2025-09-23 6:19 ` Binbin Wu
2025-09-25 23:24 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2025-09-26 6:32 ` Xiaoyao Li
2025-09-26 21:27 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2025-09-18 23:22 ` [PATCH v3 03/16] x86/virt/tdx: Simplify tdmr_get_pamt_sz() Rick Edgecombe
2025-09-19 0:50 ` Huang, Kai
2025-09-19 19:26 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2025-09-29 11:44 ` Xiaoyao Li
2025-09-29 17:47 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2025-09-18 23:22 ` [PATCH v3 04/16] x86/virt/tdx: Allocate page bitmap for Dynamic PAMT Rick Edgecombe
2025-09-23 7:15 ` Binbin Wu
2025-09-25 23:28 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2025-09-26 8:41 ` Xiaoyao Li
2025-09-26 21:57 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2025-09-26 22:06 ` Dave Hansen
2025-10-06 19:34 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2025-09-18 23:22 ` [PATCH v3 05/16] x86/virt/tdx: Allocate reference counters for PAMT memory Rick Edgecombe
2025-09-23 7:45 ` Binbin Wu
2025-09-29 17:41 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2025-09-29 18:08 ` Dave Hansen
2025-09-30 1:04 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2025-09-18 23:22 ` [PATCH v3 06/16] x86/virt/tdx: Improve PAMT refcounters allocation for sparse memory Rick Edgecombe
2025-09-19 7:25 ` Huang, Kai
2025-09-23 9:38 ` Binbin Wu
2025-09-24 6:50 ` Huang, Kai
2025-09-24 8:57 ` Binbin Wu
2025-10-01 0:32 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2025-10-01 10:40 ` Huang, Kai
2025-10-01 19:00 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2025-10-01 20:49 ` Huang, Kai
2025-10-15 1:35 ` Huang, Kai
2025-09-18 23:22 ` [PATCH v3 07/16] x86/virt/tdx: Add tdx_alloc/free_page() helpers Rick Edgecombe
2025-09-22 11:27 ` Huang, Kai
2025-09-26 22:41 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2025-09-29 7:56 ` Yan Zhao
2025-09-29 17:19 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2025-09-30 14:03 ` Xiaoyao Li
2025-09-30 17:38 ` Dave Hansen
2025-09-30 17:47 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2025-09-30 15:25 ` Dave Hansen
2025-09-30 17:00 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2025-09-18 23:22 ` [PATCH v3 08/16] x86/virt/tdx: Optimize " Rick Edgecombe
2025-09-19 9:39 ` Kiryl Shutsemau
2025-09-24 6:15 ` Binbin Wu
2025-09-18 23:22 ` [PATCH v3 09/16] KVM: TDX: Allocate PAMT memory for TD control structures Rick Edgecombe
2025-09-18 23:22 ` [PATCH v3 10/16] KVM: TDX: Allocate PAMT memory for vCPU " Rick Edgecombe
2025-09-18 23:22 ` [PATCH v3 11/16] KVM: TDX: Add x86 ops for external spt cache Rick Edgecombe
2025-09-19 9:44 ` Kiryl Shutsemau
2025-09-23 7:03 ` Yan Zhao
2025-09-26 22:10 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2025-09-28 8:35 ` Yan Zhao
2025-09-24 7:58 ` Binbin Wu
2025-09-30 1:02 ` Yan Zhao
2025-09-30 17:54 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2025-09-18 23:22 ` [PATCH v3 12/16] x86/virt/tdx: Add helpers to allow for pre-allocating pages Rick Edgecombe
2025-09-19 9:55 ` Kiryl Shutsemau
2025-10-01 19:48 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2025-09-22 11:20 ` Huang, Kai
2025-09-26 23:47 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2025-09-28 22:56 ` Huang, Kai
2025-09-29 12:10 ` Huang, Kai
2025-09-26 1:44 ` Yan Zhao
2025-09-26 22:05 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2025-09-28 1:40 ` Yan Zhao
2025-09-26 15:19 ` Dave Hansen
2025-09-26 15:49 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2025-09-18 23:22 ` [PATCH v3 13/16] KVM: TDX: Handle PAMT allocation in fault path Rick Edgecombe
2025-09-30 1:09 ` Yan Zhao
2025-09-30 18:11 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2025-09-18 23:22 ` [PATCH v3 14/16] KVM: TDX: Reclaim PAMT memory Rick Edgecombe
2025-09-18 23:22 ` [PATCH v3 15/16] x86/virt/tdx: Enable Dynamic PAMT Rick Edgecombe
2025-09-18 23:22 ` Rick Edgecombe [this message]
2025-09-26 2:28 ` [PATCH v3 00/16] TDX: " Yan Zhao
2025-09-26 14:09 ` Dave Hansen
2025-09-26 16:02 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2025-09-26 16:11 ` Dave Hansen
2025-09-26 19:00 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2025-09-26 19:03 ` Dave Hansen
2025-09-26 19:52 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2025-09-28 1:34 ` Yan Zhao
2025-09-29 11:17 ` Kiryl Shutsemau
2025-09-29 16:22 ` Dave Hansen
2025-09-29 16:58 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2025-09-30 18:29 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
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