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<title>Merge branch 'kvm-lockdep-common' into HEAD</title>
<updated>2025-05-28T10:29:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2025-05-27T16:17:06+00:00</published>
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Introduce new mutex locking functions mutex_trylock_nest_lock() and
mutex_lock_killable_nest_lock() and use them to clean up locking
of all vCPUs for a VM.

For x86, this removes some complex code that was used instead
of lockdep's "nest_lock" feature.

For ARM and RISC-V, this removes a lockdep warning when the VM is
configured to have more than MAX_LOCK_DEPTH vCPUs, and removes a fair
amount of duplicate code by sharing the logic across all architectures.

Signed-off-by: Paolo BOnzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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Introduce new mutex locking functions mutex_trylock_nest_lock() and
mutex_lock_killable_nest_lock() and use them to clean up locking
of all vCPUs for a VM.

For x86, this removes some complex code that was used instead
of lockdep's "nest_lock" feature.

For ARM and RISC-V, this removes a lockdep warning when the VM is
configured to have more than MAX_LOCK_DEPTH vCPUs, and removes a fair
amount of duplicate code by sharing the logic across all architectures.

Signed-off-by: Paolo BOnzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>KVM: add kvm_lock_all_vcpus and kvm_trylock_all_vcpus</title>
<updated>2025-05-27T16:16:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Maxim Levitsky</name>
<email>mlevitsk@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-12T18:04:04+00:00</published>
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In a few cases, usually in the initialization code, KVM locks all vCPUs
of a VM to ensure that userspace doesn't do funny things while KVM performs
an operation that affects the whole VM.

Until now, all these operations were implemented using custom code,
and all of them share the same problem:

Lockdep can't cope with simultaneous locking of a large number of locks of
the same class.

However if these locks are taken while another lock is already held,
which is luckily the case, it is possible to take advantage of little known
_nest_lock feature of lockdep which allows in this case to have an
unlimited number of locks of same class to be taken.

To implement this, create two functions:
kvm_lock_all_vcpus() and kvm_trylock_all_vcpus()

Both functions are needed because some code that will be replaced in
the subsequent patches, uses mutex_trylock, instead of regular mutex_lock.

Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Maxim Levitsky &lt;mlevitsk@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Message-ID: &lt;20250512180407.659015-4-mlevitsk@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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In a few cases, usually in the initialization code, KVM locks all vCPUs
of a VM to ensure that userspace doesn't do funny things while KVM performs
an operation that affects the whole VM.

Until now, all these operations were implemented using custom code,
and all of them share the same problem:

Lockdep can't cope with simultaneous locking of a large number of locks of
the same class.

However if these locks are taken while another lock is already held,
which is luckily the case, it is possible to take advantage of little known
_nest_lock feature of lockdep which allows in this case to have an
unlimited number of locks of same class to be taken.

To implement this, create two functions:
kvm_lock_all_vcpus() and kvm_trylock_all_vcpus()

Both functions are needed because some code that will be replaced in
the subsequent patches, uses mutex_trylock, instead of regular mutex_lock.

Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Maxim Levitsky &lt;mlevitsk@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Message-ID: &lt;20250512180407.659015-4-mlevitsk@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>KVM: SVM: Fix SNP AP destroy race with VMRUN</title>
<updated>2025-04-24T18:20:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tom Lendacky</name>
<email>thomas.lendacky@amd.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-27T17:39:56+00:00</published>
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An AP destroy request for a target vCPU is typically followed by an
RMPADJUST to remove the VMSA attribute from the page currently being
used as the VMSA for the target vCPU. This can result in a vCPU that
is about to VMRUN to exit with #VMEXIT_INVALID.

This usually does not happen as APs are typically sitting in HLT when
being destroyed and therefore the vCPU thread is not running at the time.
However, if HLT is allowed inside the VM, then the vCPU could be about to
VMRUN when the VMSA attribute is removed from the VMSA page, resulting in
a #VMEXIT_INVALID when the vCPU actually issues the VMRUN and causing the
guest to crash. An RMPADJUST against an in-use (already running) VMSA
results in a #NPF for the vCPU issuing the RMPADJUST, so the VMSA
attribute cannot be changed until the VMRUN for target vCPU exits. The
Qemu command line option '-overcommit cpu-pm=on' is an example of allowing
HLT inside the guest.

Update the KVM_REQ_UPDATE_PROTECTED_GUEST_STATE event to include the
KVM_REQUEST_WAIT flag. The kvm_vcpu_kick() function will not wait for
requests to be honored, so create kvm_make_request_and_kick() that will
add a new event request and honor the KVM_REQUEST_WAIT flag. This will
ensure that the target vCPU sees the AP destroy request before returning
to the initiating vCPU should the target vCPU be in guest mode.

Fixes: e366f92ea99e ("KVM: SEV: Support SEV-SNP AP Creation NAE event")
Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky &lt;thomas.lendacky@amd.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/fe2c885bf35643dd224e91294edb6777d5df23a4.1743097196.git.thomas.lendacky@amd.com
[sean: add a comment explaining the use of smp_send_reschedule()]
Co-developed-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
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An AP destroy request for a target vCPU is typically followed by an
RMPADJUST to remove the VMSA attribute from the page currently being
used as the VMSA for the target vCPU. This can result in a vCPU that
is about to VMRUN to exit with #VMEXIT_INVALID.

This usually does not happen as APs are typically sitting in HLT when
being destroyed and therefore the vCPU thread is not running at the time.
However, if HLT is allowed inside the VM, then the vCPU could be about to
VMRUN when the VMSA attribute is removed from the VMSA page, resulting in
a #VMEXIT_INVALID when the vCPU actually issues the VMRUN and causing the
guest to crash. An RMPADJUST against an in-use (already running) VMSA
results in a #NPF for the vCPU issuing the RMPADJUST, so the VMSA
attribute cannot be changed until the VMRUN for target vCPU exits. The
Qemu command line option '-overcommit cpu-pm=on' is an example of allowing
HLT inside the guest.

Update the KVM_REQ_UPDATE_PROTECTED_GUEST_STATE event to include the
KVM_REQUEST_WAIT flag. The kvm_vcpu_kick() function will not wait for
requests to be honored, so create kvm_make_request_and_kick() that will
add a new event request and honor the KVM_REQUEST_WAIT flag. This will
ensure that the target vCPU sees the AP destroy request before returning
to the initiating vCPU should the target vCPU be in guest mode.

Fixes: e366f92ea99e ("KVM: SEV: Support SEV-SNP AP Creation NAE event")
Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky &lt;thomas.lendacky@amd.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/fe2c885bf35643dd224e91294edb6777d5df23a4.1743097196.git.thomas.lendacky@amd.com
[sean: add a comment explaining the use of smp_send_reschedule()]
Co-developed-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'kvm-tdx-initial' into HEAD</title>
<updated>2025-04-07T11:36:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-19T13:46:59+00:00</published>
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This large commit contains the initial support for TDX in KVM.  All x86
parts enable the host-side hypercalls that KVM uses to talk to the TDX
module, a software component that runs in a special CPU mode called SEAM
(Secure Arbitration Mode).

The series is in turn split into multiple sub-series, each with a separate
merge commit:

- Initialization: basic setup for using the TDX module from KVM, plus
  ioctls to create TDX VMs and vCPUs.

- MMU: in TDX, private and shared halves of the address space are mapped by
  different EPT roots, and the private half is managed by the TDX module.
  Using the support that was added to the generic MMU code in 6.14,
  add support for TDX's secure page tables to the Intel side of KVM.
  Generic KVM code takes care of maintaining a mirror of the secure page
  tables so that they can be queried efficiently, and ensuring that changes
  are applied to both the mirror and the secure EPT.

- vCPU enter/exit: implement the callbacks that handle the entry of a TDX
  vCPU (via the SEAMCALL TDH.VP.ENTER) and the corresponding save/restore
  of host state.

- Userspace exits: introduce support for guest TDVMCALLs that KVM forwards to
  userspace.  These correspond to the usual KVM_EXIT_* "heavyweight vmexits"
  but are triggered through a different mechanism, similar to VMGEXIT for
  SEV-ES and SEV-SNP.

- Interrupt handling: support for virtual interrupt injection as well as
  handling VM-Exits that are caused by vectored events.  Exclusive to
  TDX are machine-check SMIs, which the kernel already knows how to
  handle through the kernel machine check handler (commit 7911f145de5f,
  "x86/mce: Implement recovery for errors in TDX/SEAM non-root mode")

- Loose ends: handling of the remaining exits from the TDX module, including
  EPT violation/misconfig and several TDVMCALL leaves that are handled in
  the kernel (CPUID, HLT, RDMSR/WRMSR, GetTdVmCallInfo); plus returning
  an error or ignoring operations that are not supported by TDX guests

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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This large commit contains the initial support for TDX in KVM.  All x86
parts enable the host-side hypercalls that KVM uses to talk to the TDX
module, a software component that runs in a special CPU mode called SEAM
(Secure Arbitration Mode).

The series is in turn split into multiple sub-series, each with a separate
merge commit:

- Initialization: basic setup for using the TDX module from KVM, plus
  ioctls to create TDX VMs and vCPUs.

- MMU: in TDX, private and shared halves of the address space are mapped by
  different EPT roots, and the private half is managed by the TDX module.
  Using the support that was added to the generic MMU code in 6.14,
  add support for TDX's secure page tables to the Intel side of KVM.
  Generic KVM code takes care of maintaining a mirror of the secure page
  tables so that they can be queried efficiently, and ensuring that changes
  are applied to both the mirror and the secure EPT.

- vCPU enter/exit: implement the callbacks that handle the entry of a TDX
  vCPU (via the SEAMCALL TDH.VP.ENTER) and the corresponding save/restore
  of host state.

- Userspace exits: introduce support for guest TDVMCALLs that KVM forwards to
  userspace.  These correspond to the usual KVM_EXIT_* "heavyweight vmexits"
  but are triggered through a different mechanism, similar to VMGEXIT for
  SEV-ES and SEV-SNP.

- Interrupt handling: support for virtual interrupt injection as well as
  handling VM-Exits that are caused by vectored events.  Exclusive to
  TDX are machine-check SMIs, which the kernel already knows how to
  handle through the kernel machine check handler (commit 7911f145de5f,
  "x86/mce: Implement recovery for errors in TDX/SEAM non-root mode")

- Loose ends: handling of the remaining exits from the TDX module, including
  EPT violation/misconfig and several TDVMCALL leaves that are handled in
  the kernel (CPUID, HLT, RDMSR/WRMSR, GetTdVmCallInfo); plus returning
  an error or ignoring operations that are not supported by TDX guests

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>KVM: Allow building irqbypass.ko as as module when kvm.ko is a module</title>
<updated>2025-04-04T11:07:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sean Christopherson</name>
<email>seanjc@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-15T02:46:23+00:00</published>
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Convert HAVE_KVM_IRQ_BYPASS into a tristate so that selecting
IRQ_BYPASS_MANAGER follows KVM={m,y}, i.e. doesn't force irqbypass.ko to
be built-in.

Note, PPC allows building KVM as a module, but selects HAVE_KVM_IRQ_BYPASS
from a boolean Kconfig, i.e. KVM PPC unnecessarily forces irqbpass.ko to
be built-in.  But that flaw is a longstanding PPC specific issue.

Fixes: 61df71ee992d ("kvm: move "select IRQ_BYPASS_MANAGER" to common code")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Message-ID: &lt;20250315024623.2363994-1-seanjc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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Convert HAVE_KVM_IRQ_BYPASS into a tristate so that selecting
IRQ_BYPASS_MANAGER follows KVM={m,y}, i.e. doesn't force irqbypass.ko to
be built-in.

Note, PPC allows building KVM as a module, but selects HAVE_KVM_IRQ_BYPASS
from a boolean Kconfig, i.e. KVM PPC unnecessarily forces irqbpass.ko to
be built-in.  But that flaw is a longstanding PPC specific issue.

Fixes: 61df71ee992d ("kvm: move "select IRQ_BYPASS_MANAGER" to common code")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Message-ID: &lt;20250315024623.2363994-1-seanjc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'kvm-nvmx-and-vm-teardown' into HEAD</title>
<updated>2025-03-20T17:13:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paolo Bonzini</name>
<email>pbonzini@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-26T18:23:29+00:00</published>
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The immediate issue being fixed here is a nVMX bug where KVM fails to
detect that, after nested VM-Exit, L1 has a pending IRQ (or NMI).
However, checking for a pending interrupt accesses the legacy PIC, and
x86's kvm_arch_destroy_vm() currently frees the PIC before destroying
vCPUs, i.e. checking for IRQs during the forced nested VM-Exit results
in a NULL pointer deref; that's a prerequisite for the nVMX fix.

The remaining patches attempt to bring a bit of sanity to x86's VM
teardown code, which has accumulated a lot of cruft over the years.  E.g.
KVM currently unloads each vCPU's MMUs in a separate operation from
destroying vCPUs, all because when guest SMP support was added, KVM had a
kludgy MMU teardown flow that broke when a VM had more than one 1 vCPU.
And that oddity lived on, for 18 years...

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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The immediate issue being fixed here is a nVMX bug where KVM fails to
detect that, after nested VM-Exit, L1 has a pending IRQ (or NMI).
However, checking for a pending interrupt accesses the legacy PIC, and
x86's kvm_arch_destroy_vm() currently frees the PIC before destroying
vCPUs, i.e. checking for IRQs during the forced nested VM-Exit results
in a NULL pointer deref; that's a prerequisite for the nVMX fix.

The remaining patches attempt to bring a bit of sanity to x86's VM
teardown code, which has accumulated a lot of cruft over the years.  E.g.
KVM currently unloads each vCPU's MMUs in a separate operation from
destroying vCPUs, all because when guest SMP support was added, KVM had a
kludgy MMU teardown flow that broke when a VM had more than one 1 vCPU.
And that oddity lived on, for 18 years...

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>KVM: x86: Move pv_unhalted check out of kvm_vcpu_has_events()</title>
<updated>2025-03-14T18:20:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Binbin Wu</name>
<email>binbin.wu@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-22T01:42:18+00:00</published>
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Move pv_unhalted check out of kvm_vcpu_has_events(), check pv_unhalted
explicitly when handling PV unhalt and expose kvm_vcpu_has_events().

kvm_vcpu_has_events() returns true if pv_unhalted is set, and pv_unhalted
is only cleared on transitions to KVM_MP_STATE_RUNNABLE.  If the guest
initiates a spurious wakeup, pv_unhalted could be left set in perpetuity.
Currently, this is not problematic because kvm_vcpu_has_events() is only
called when handling PV unhalt.  However, if kvm_vcpu_has_events() is used
for other purposes in the future, it could return the unexpected results.

Export kvm_vcpu_has_events() for its usage in broader contexts.

Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Binbin Wu &lt;binbin.wu@linux.intel.com&gt;
Message-ID: &lt;20250222014225.897298-3-binbin.wu@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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Move pv_unhalted check out of kvm_vcpu_has_events(), check pv_unhalted
explicitly when handling PV unhalt and expose kvm_vcpu_has_events().

kvm_vcpu_has_events() returns true if pv_unhalted is set, and pv_unhalted
is only cleared on transitions to KVM_MP_STATE_RUNNABLE.  If the guest
initiates a spurious wakeup, pv_unhalted could be left set in perpetuity.
Currently, this is not problematic because kvm_vcpu_has_events() is only
called when handling PV unhalt.  However, if kvm_vcpu_has_events() is used
for other purposes in the future, it could return the unexpected results.

Export kvm_vcpu_has_events() for its usage in broader contexts.

Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Binbin Wu &lt;binbin.wu@linux.intel.com&gt;
Message-ID: &lt;20250222014225.897298-3-binbin.wu@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>KVM: VMX: Initialize TDX during KVM module load</title>
<updated>2025-03-14T18:20:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kai Huang</name>
<email>kai.huang@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-15T09:52:41+00:00</published>
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Before KVM can use TDX to create and run TDX guests, TDX needs to be
initialized from two perspectives: 1) TDX module must be initialized
properly to a working state; 2) A per-cpu TDX initialization, a.k.a the
TDH.SYS.LP.INIT SEAMCALL must be done on any logical cpu before it can
run any other TDX SEAMCALLs.

The TDX host core-kernel provides two functions to do the above two
respectively: tdx_enable() and tdx_cpu_enable().

There are two options in terms of when to initialize TDX: initialize TDX
at KVM module loading time, or when creating the first TDX guest.

Choose to initialize TDX during KVM module loading time:

Initializing TDX module is both memory and CPU time consuming: 1) the
kernel needs to allocate a non-trivial size(~1/256) of system memory
as metadata used by TDX module to track each TDX-usable memory page's
status; 2) the TDX module needs to initialize this metadata, one entry
for each TDX-usable memory page.

Also, the kernel uses alloc_contig_pages() to allocate those metadata
chunks, because they are large and need to be physically contiguous.
alloc_contig_pages() can fail.  If initializing TDX when creating the
first TDX guest, then there's chance that KVM won't be able to run any
TDX guests albeit KVM _declares_ to be able to support TDX.

This isn't good for the user.

On the other hand, initializing TDX at KVM module loading time can make
sure KVM is providing a consistent view of whether KVM can support TDX
to the user.

Always only try to initialize TDX after VMX has been initialized.  TDX
is based on VMX, and if VMX fails to initialize then TDX is likely to be
broken anyway.  Also, in practice, supporting TDX will require part of
VMX and common x86 infrastructure in working order, so TDX cannot be
enabled alone w/o VMX support.

There are two cases that can result in failure to initialize TDX: 1) TDX
cannot be supported (e.g., because of TDX is not supported or enabled by
hardware, or module is not loaded, or missing some dependency in KVM's
configuration); 2) Any unexpected error during TDX bring-up.  For the
first case only mark TDX is disabled but still allow KVM module to be
loaded.  For the second case just fail to load the KVM module so that
the user can be aware.

Because TDX costs additional memory, don't enable TDX by default.  Add a
new module parameter 'enable_tdx' to allow the user to opt-in.

Note, the name tdx_init() has already been taken by the early boot code.
Use tdx_bringup() for initializing TDX (and tdx_cleanup() since KVM
doesn't actually teardown TDX).  They don't match vt_init()/vt_exit(),
vmx_init()/vmx_exit() etc but it's not end of the world.

Also, once initialized, the TDX module cannot be disabled and enabled
again w/o the TDX module runtime update, which isn't supported by the
kernel.  After TDX is enabled, nothing needs to be done when KVM
disables hardware virtualization, e.g., when offlining CPU, or during
suspend/resume.  TDX host core-kernel code internally tracks TDX status
and can handle "multiple enabling" scenario.

Similar to KVM_AMD_SEV, add a new KVM_INTEL_TDX Kconfig to guide KVM TDX
code.  Make it depend on INTEL_TDX_HOST but not replace INTEL_TDX_HOST
because in the longer term there's a use case that requires making
SEAMCALLs w/o KVM as mentioned by Dan [1].

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/6723fc2070a96_60c3294dc@dwillia2-mobl3.amr.corp.intel.com.notmuch/ [1]
Signed-off-by: Kai Huang &lt;kai.huang@intel.com&gt;
Message-ID: &lt;162f9dee05c729203b9ad6688db1ca2960b4b502.1731664295.git.kai.huang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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Before KVM can use TDX to create and run TDX guests, TDX needs to be
initialized from two perspectives: 1) TDX module must be initialized
properly to a working state; 2) A per-cpu TDX initialization, a.k.a the
TDH.SYS.LP.INIT SEAMCALL must be done on any logical cpu before it can
run any other TDX SEAMCALLs.

The TDX host core-kernel provides two functions to do the above two
respectively: tdx_enable() and tdx_cpu_enable().

There are two options in terms of when to initialize TDX: initialize TDX
at KVM module loading time, or when creating the first TDX guest.

Choose to initialize TDX during KVM module loading time:

Initializing TDX module is both memory and CPU time consuming: 1) the
kernel needs to allocate a non-trivial size(~1/256) of system memory
as metadata used by TDX module to track each TDX-usable memory page's
status; 2) the TDX module needs to initialize this metadata, one entry
for each TDX-usable memory page.

Also, the kernel uses alloc_contig_pages() to allocate those metadata
chunks, because they are large and need to be physically contiguous.
alloc_contig_pages() can fail.  If initializing TDX when creating the
first TDX guest, then there's chance that KVM won't be able to run any
TDX guests albeit KVM _declares_ to be able to support TDX.

This isn't good for the user.

On the other hand, initializing TDX at KVM module loading time can make
sure KVM is providing a consistent view of whether KVM can support TDX
to the user.

Always only try to initialize TDX after VMX has been initialized.  TDX
is based on VMX, and if VMX fails to initialize then TDX is likely to be
broken anyway.  Also, in practice, supporting TDX will require part of
VMX and common x86 infrastructure in working order, so TDX cannot be
enabled alone w/o VMX support.

There are two cases that can result in failure to initialize TDX: 1) TDX
cannot be supported (e.g., because of TDX is not supported or enabled by
hardware, or module is not loaded, or missing some dependency in KVM's
configuration); 2) Any unexpected error during TDX bring-up.  For the
first case only mark TDX is disabled but still allow KVM module to be
loaded.  For the second case just fail to load the KVM module so that
the user can be aware.

Because TDX costs additional memory, don't enable TDX by default.  Add a
new module parameter 'enable_tdx' to allow the user to opt-in.

Note, the name tdx_init() has already been taken by the early boot code.
Use tdx_bringup() for initializing TDX (and tdx_cleanup() since KVM
doesn't actually teardown TDX).  They don't match vt_init()/vt_exit(),
vmx_init()/vmx_exit() etc but it's not end of the world.

Also, once initialized, the TDX module cannot be disabled and enabled
again w/o the TDX module runtime update, which isn't supported by the
kernel.  After TDX is enabled, nothing needs to be done when KVM
disables hardware virtualization, e.g., when offlining CPU, or during
suspend/resume.  TDX host core-kernel code internally tracks TDX status
and can handle "multiple enabling" scenario.

Similar to KVM_AMD_SEV, add a new KVM_INTEL_TDX Kconfig to guide KVM TDX
code.  Make it depend on INTEL_TDX_HOST but not replace INTEL_TDX_HOST
because in the longer term there's a use case that requires making
SEAMCALLs w/o KVM as mentioned by Dan [1].

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/6723fc2070a96_60c3294dc@dwillia2-mobl3.amr.corp.intel.com.notmuch/ [1]
Signed-off-by: Kai Huang &lt;kai.huang@intel.com&gt;
Message-ID: &lt;162f9dee05c729203b9ad6688db1ca2960b4b502.1731664295.git.kai.huang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>KVM: Export hardware virtualization enabling/disabling functions</title>
<updated>2025-03-14T18:20:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kai Huang</name>
<email>kai.huang@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-15T09:52:40+00:00</published>
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To support TDX, KVM will need to enable TDX during KVM module loading
time.  Enabling TDX requires enabling hardware virtualization first so
that all online CPUs (and the new CPU going online) are in post-VMXON
state.

KVM by default enables hardware virtualization but that is done in
kvm_init(), which must be the last step after all initialization is done
thus is too late for enabling TDX.

Export functions to enable/disable hardware virtualization so that TDX
code can use them to handle hardware virtualization enabling before
kvm_init().

Signed-off-by: Kai Huang &lt;kai.huang@intel.com&gt;
Message-ID: &lt;dfe17314c0d9978b7bc3b0833dff6f167fbd28f5.1731664295.git.kai.huang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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To support TDX, KVM will need to enable TDX during KVM module loading
time.  Enabling TDX requires enabling hardware virtualization first so
that all online CPUs (and the new CPU going online) are in post-VMXON
state.

KVM by default enables hardware virtualization but that is done in
kvm_init(), which must be the last step after all initialization is done
thus is too late for enabling TDX.

Export functions to enable/disable hardware virtualization so that TDX
code can use them to handle hardware virtualization enabling before
kvm_init().

Signed-off-by: Kai Huang &lt;kai.huang@intel.com&gt;
Message-ID: &lt;dfe17314c0d9978b7bc3b0833dff6f167fbd28f5.1731664295.git.kai.huang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: Drop kvm_arch_sync_events() now that all implementations are nops</title>
<updated>2025-02-26T18:17:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sean Christopherson</name>
<email>seanjc@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-24T23:55:42+00:00</published>
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Remove kvm_arch_sync_events() now that x86 no longer uses it (no other
arch has ever used it).

No functional change intended.

Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Claudio Imbrenda &lt;imbrenda@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Bibo Mao &lt;maobibo@loongson.cn&gt;
Message-ID: &lt;20250224235542.2562848-8-seanjc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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Remove kvm_arch_sync_events() now that x86 no longer uses it (no other
arch has ever used it).

No functional change intended.

Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Claudio Imbrenda &lt;imbrenda@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Bibo Mao &lt;maobibo@loongson.cn&gt;
Message-ID: &lt;20250224235542.2562848-8-seanjc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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