Re: [PATCH v14 004/113] KVM: TDX: Initialize the TDX module when loading the KVM intel kernel module

From: Huang, Kai
Date: Wed Jun 14 2023 - 05:45:40 EST


On Tue, 2023-06-13 at 10:38 -0700, Isaku Yamahata wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 11:55:14PM +0000,
> "Huang, Kai" <kai.huang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 2023-06-07 at 11:06 -0700, Isaku Yamahata wrote:
> > > Thanks for pointing it out. The following is the fix.
> > >
> > > diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/tdx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/tdx.c
> > > index 8a1d0755d275..b0d3f646afb1 100644
> > > --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/tdx.c
> > > +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/tdx.c
> > > @@ -4499,26 +4499,39 @@ u64 tdx_non_arch_field_switch(u64 field)
> > >   }
> > >  }
> > >  
> > > -static void __init vmx_tdx_on(void *info)
> > > +struct vmx_tdx_enabled {
> > > + cpumask_var_t vmx_enabled;
> > > + atomic_t *err;
> > > +};
> > > +
> >
> > Sorry for late reply.
> >
> > I think you just need to mimic hardware_enable_all() -- using a per-cpu
> > variable. In this way you can get rid of this structure.
> >
> > But again, we have listed a couple of options in the v13 discussion [1]:
> >
> > 1) Call kvm_ops_update() twice before and after hardware_setup() in order to use
> > hardware_enable_all() directly.
> >
> > 2) Expose kvm_x86_ops as symbol so VMX can set hardware_{enable|disable}()
> > callback before hardware_setup() in order to use hardware_enable_all().
> >
> > 3) Implement VMX's own hardware_enable_all() logic as shown in this patch.
> >
> > 4) ???
> >
> > I think it would be better if Sean can provide some comments here, but until he
> > does, we can keep using option 3) (this patch).
> >
> > [1]
> > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/5dc84a2601a47ccc29ef43200cf3ec0d1b485d23.camel@xxxxxxxxx/
>
> Ok, makes sense. Here is the updated version with the fix for the error you
> pointed out. Introduce cpu bitmap to track which cpu enable VMX(VMXON)
> successfully. Disable VMX off only for cpu with bit set.
>
>
[...]

> +struct vmx_tdx_enabled {
> + cpumask_var_t vmx_enabled;
> + atomic_t err;
> +};
> +

Again (and again), why not just mimic hardware_enable_all() to use a per-cpu
variable instead of a cpumask, so that you can get rid of this structure?