Re: [RFC PATCH 25/35] KVM: x86: Update __get_sregs() / __set_sregs() to support SEV-ES

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 16/09/20 00:44, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > KVM doesn't have control of them. They are part of the guest's encrypted
> > state and that is what the guest uses. KVM can't alter the value that the
> > guest is using for them once the VMSA is encrypted. However, KVM makes
> > some decisions based on the values it thinks it knows.  For example, early
> > on I remember the async PF support failing because the CR0 that KVM
> > thought the guest had didn't have the PE bit set, even though the guest
> > was in protected mode. So KVM didn't include the error code in the
> > exception it injected (is_protmode() was false) and things failed. Without
> > syncing these values after live migration, things also fail (probably for
> > the same reason). So the idea is to just keep KVM apprised of the values
> > that the guest has.
>
> Ah, gotcha.  Migrating tracked state through the VMSA would probably be ideal.
> The semantics of __set_sregs() kinda setting state but not reaaaally setting
> state would be weird.

How would that work with TDX?

Paolo