From: Kai Huang <kai.huang@intel.com>
To: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: seanjc@google.com, pbonzini@redhat.com, len.brown@intel.com,
tony.luck@intel.com, rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com,
reinette.chatre@intel.com, dan.j.williams@intel.com,
peterz@infradead.org, ak@linux.intel.com,
kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com,
sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@linux.intel.com,
isaku.yamahata@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 05/21] x86/virt/tdx: Detect P-SEAMLDR and TDX module
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2022 09:30:39 +1200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <68484e168226037c3a25b6fb983b052b26ab3ec1.camel@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49cc6848-47ae-9c25-f479-c5aed8c892df@intel.com>
On Wed, 2022-04-27 at 07:24 -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 4/26/22 17:01, Kai Huang wrote:
> > On Tue, 2022-04-26 at 13:56 -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> > > On 4/5/22 21:49, Kai Huang wrote:
> > > > The P-SEAMLDR (persistent SEAM loader) is the first software module that
> > > > runs in SEAM VMX root, responsible for loading and updating the TDX
> > > > module. Both the P-SEAMLDR and the TDX module are expected to be loaded
> > > > before host kernel boots.
> > >
> > > Why bother with the P-SEAMLDR here at all? The kernel isn't loading the
> > > TDX module in this series. Why not just call into the TDX module directly?
> >
> > It's not absolutely needed in this series. I choose to detect P-SEAMLDR because
> > detecting it can also detect the TDX module, and eventually we will need to
> > support P-SEAMLDR because the TDX module runtime update uses P-SEAMLDR's
> > SEAMCALL to do that.
> >
> > Also, even for this series, detecting the P-SEAMLDR allows us to provide the P-
> > SEAMLDR information to user at a basic level in dmesg:
> >
> > [..] tdx: P-SEAMLDR: version 0x0, vendor_id: 0x8086, build_date: 20211209,
> > build_num 160, major 1, minor 0
> >
> > This may be useful to users, but it's not a hard requirement for this series.
>
> We've had a lot of problems in general with this code trying to do too
> much at once. I thought we agreed that this was going to only contain
> the minimum code to make TDX functional. It seems to be creeping to
> grow bigger and bigger.
>
> Am I remembering this wrong?
OK. I'll remove the P-SEAMLDR related code.
--
Thanks,
-Kai
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-04-27 21:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 156+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-04-06 4:49 [PATCH v3 00/21] TDX host kernel support Kai Huang
2022-04-06 4:49 ` [PATCH v3 01/21] x86/virt/tdx: Detect SEAM Kai Huang
2022-04-18 22:29 ` Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy
2022-04-18 22:50 ` Sean Christopherson
2022-04-19 3:38 ` Kai Huang
2022-04-26 20:21 ` Dave Hansen
2022-04-26 23:12 ` Kai Huang
2022-04-26 23:28 ` Dave Hansen
2022-04-26 23:49 ` Kai Huang
2022-04-27 0:22 ` Sean Christopherson
2022-04-27 0:44 ` Kai Huang
2022-04-27 14:22 ` Dave Hansen
2022-04-27 22:39 ` Kai Huang
2022-04-06 4:49 ` [PATCH v3 02/21] x86/virt/tdx: Detect TDX private KeyIDs Kai Huang
2022-04-19 5:39 ` Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy
2022-04-19 9:41 ` Kai Huang
2022-04-19 5:42 ` Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy
2022-04-19 10:07 ` Kai Huang
2022-04-06 4:49 ` [PATCH v3 03/21] x86/virt/tdx: Implement the SEAMCALL base function Kai Huang
2022-04-19 14:07 ` Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy
2022-04-20 4:16 ` Kai Huang
2022-04-20 7:29 ` Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy
2022-04-20 10:39 ` Kai Huang
2022-04-26 20:37 ` Dave Hansen
2022-04-26 23:29 ` Kai Huang
2022-04-06 4:49 ` [PATCH v3 04/21] x86/virt/tdx: Add skeleton for detecting and initializing TDX on demand Kai Huang
2022-04-19 14:53 ` Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy
2022-04-20 4:37 ` Kai Huang
2022-04-20 5:21 ` Dave Hansen
2022-04-20 14:30 ` Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy
2022-04-20 22:35 ` Kai Huang
2022-04-26 20:53 ` Dave Hansen
2022-04-27 0:43 ` Kai Huang
2022-04-27 14:49 ` Dave Hansen
2022-04-28 0:00 ` Kai Huang
2022-04-28 14:27 ` Dave Hansen
2022-04-28 23:44 ` Kai Huang
2022-04-28 23:53 ` Dave Hansen
2022-04-29 0:11 ` Kai Huang
2022-04-29 0:26 ` Dave Hansen
2022-04-29 0:59 ` Kai Huang
2022-04-06 4:49 ` [PATCH v3 05/21] x86/virt/tdx: Detect P-SEAMLDR and TDX module Kai Huang
2022-04-26 20:56 ` Dave Hansen
2022-04-27 0:01 ` Kai Huang
2022-04-27 14:24 ` Dave Hansen
2022-04-27 21:30 ` Kai Huang [this message]
2022-04-06 4:49 ` [PATCH v3 06/21] x86/virt/tdx: Shut down TDX module in case of error Kai Huang
2022-04-23 15:39 ` Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy
2022-04-25 23:41 ` Kai Huang
2022-04-26 1:48 ` Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy
2022-04-26 2:12 ` Kai Huang
2022-04-26 20:59 ` Dave Hansen
2022-04-27 0:06 ` Kai Huang
2022-05-18 16:19 ` Sagi Shahar
2022-05-18 23:51 ` Kai Huang
2022-04-06 4:49 ` [PATCH v3 07/21] x86/virt/tdx: Do TDX module global initialization Kai Huang
2022-04-20 22:27 ` Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy
2022-04-20 22:37 ` Kai Huang
2022-04-06 4:49 ` [PATCH v3 08/21] x86/virt/tdx: Do logical-cpu scope TDX module initialization Kai Huang
2022-04-24 1:27 ` Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy
2022-04-25 23:55 ` Kai Huang
2022-04-06 4:49 ` [PATCH v3 09/21] x86/virt/tdx: Get information about TDX module and convertible memory Kai Huang
2022-04-25 2:58 ` Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy
2022-04-26 0:05 ` Kai Huang
2022-04-27 22:15 ` Dave Hansen
2022-04-28 0:15 ` Kai Huang
2022-04-28 14:06 ` Dave Hansen
2022-04-28 23:14 ` Kai Huang
2022-04-29 17:47 ` Dave Hansen
2022-05-02 5:04 ` Kai Huang
2022-05-25 4:47 ` Kai Huang
2022-05-25 4:57 ` Kai Huang
2022-05-25 16:00 ` Kai Huang
2022-05-18 22:30 ` Sagi Shahar
2022-05-18 23:56 ` Kai Huang
2022-04-06 4:49 ` [PATCH v3 10/21] x86/virt/tdx: Add placeholder to coveret all system RAM as TDX memory Kai Huang
2022-04-20 20:48 ` Isaku Yamahata
2022-04-20 22:38 ` Kai Huang
2022-04-27 22:24 ` Dave Hansen
2022-04-28 0:53 ` Kai Huang
2022-04-28 1:07 ` Dave Hansen
2022-04-28 1:35 ` Kai Huang
2022-04-28 3:40 ` Dave Hansen
2022-04-28 3:55 ` Kai Huang
2022-04-06 4:49 ` [PATCH v3 11/21] x86/virt/tdx: Choose to use " Kai Huang
2022-04-20 20:55 ` Isaku Yamahata
2022-04-20 22:39 ` Kai Huang
2022-04-28 15:54 ` Dave Hansen
2022-04-29 7:32 ` Kai Huang
2022-04-06 4:49 ` [PATCH v3 12/21] x86/virt/tdx: Create TDMRs to cover all system RAM Kai Huang
2022-04-28 16:22 ` Dave Hansen
2022-04-29 7:24 ` Kai Huang
2022-04-29 13:52 ` Dave Hansen
2022-04-06 4:49 ` [PATCH v3 13/21] x86/virt/tdx: Allocate and set up PAMTs for TDMRs Kai Huang
2022-04-28 17:12 ` Dave Hansen
2022-04-29 7:46 ` Kai Huang
2022-04-29 14:20 ` Dave Hansen
2022-04-29 14:30 ` Sean Christopherson
2022-04-29 17:46 ` Dave Hansen
2022-04-29 18:19 ` Sean Christopherson
2022-04-29 18:32 ` Dave Hansen
2022-05-02 5:59 ` Kai Huang
2022-05-02 14:17 ` Dave Hansen
2022-05-02 21:55 ` Kai Huang
2022-04-06 4:49 ` [PATCH v3 14/21] x86/virt/tdx: Set up reserved areas for all TDMRs Kai Huang
2022-04-06 4:49 ` [PATCH v3 15/21] x86/virt/tdx: Reserve TDX module global KeyID Kai Huang
2022-04-06 4:49 ` [PATCH v3 16/21] x86/virt/tdx: Configure TDX module with TDMRs and " Kai Huang
2022-04-06 4:49 ` [PATCH v3 17/21] x86/virt/tdx: Configure global KeyID on all packages Kai Huang
2022-04-06 4:49 ` [PATCH v3 18/21] x86/virt/tdx: Initialize all TDMRs Kai Huang
2022-04-06 4:49 ` [PATCH v3 19/21] x86: Flush cache of TDX private memory during kexec() Kai Huang
2022-04-06 4:49 ` [PATCH v3 20/21] x86/virt/tdx: Add kernel command line to opt-in TDX host support Kai Huang
2022-04-28 17:25 ` Dave Hansen
2022-04-06 4:49 ` [PATCH v3 21/21] Documentation/x86: Add documentation for " Kai Huang
2022-04-14 10:19 ` [PATCH v3 00/21] TDX host kernel support Kai Huang
2022-04-26 20:13 ` Dave Hansen
2022-04-27 1:15 ` Kai Huang
2022-04-27 21:59 ` Dave Hansen
2022-04-28 0:37 ` Kai Huang
2022-04-28 0:50 ` Dave Hansen
2022-04-28 0:58 ` Kai Huang
2022-04-29 1:40 ` Kai Huang
2022-04-29 3:04 ` Dan Williams
2022-04-29 5:35 ` Kai Huang
2022-05-03 23:59 ` Kai Huang
2022-05-04 0:25 ` Dave Hansen
2022-05-04 1:15 ` Kai Huang
2022-05-05 9:54 ` Kai Huang
2022-05-05 13:51 ` Dan Williams
2022-05-05 22:14 ` Kai Huang
2022-05-06 0:22 ` Dan Williams
2022-05-06 0:45 ` Kai Huang
2022-05-06 1:15 ` Dan Williams
2022-05-06 1:46 ` Kai Huang
2022-05-06 15:57 ` Dan Williams
2022-05-09 2:46 ` Kai Huang
2022-05-10 10:25 ` Kai Huang
2022-05-07 0:09 ` Mike Rapoport
2022-05-08 10:00 ` Kai Huang
2022-05-09 10:33 ` Mike Rapoport
2022-05-09 23:27 ` Kai Huang
2022-05-04 14:31 ` Dan Williams
2022-05-04 22:50 ` Kai Huang
2022-04-28 1:01 ` Dan Williams
2022-04-28 1:21 ` Kai Huang
2022-04-29 2:58 ` Dan Williams
2022-04-29 5:43 ` Kai Huang
2022-04-29 14:39 ` Dave Hansen
2022-04-29 15:18 ` Dan Williams
2022-04-29 17:18 ` Dave Hansen
2022-04-29 17:48 ` Dan Williams
2022-04-29 18:34 ` Dave Hansen
2022-04-29 18:47 ` Dan Williams
2022-04-29 19:20 ` Dave Hansen
2022-04-29 21:20 ` Dan Williams
2022-04-29 21:27 ` Dave Hansen
2022-05-02 10:18 ` Kai Huang
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