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

From: Sean Christopherson
Date: Mon Nov 30 2020 - 14:40:51 EST


On Mon, Nov 30, 2020, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 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?

Can you elaborate? I.e. how would what work with TDX?