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From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>, Kai Huang <kai.huang@intel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, tglx@linutronix.de, seanjc@google.com,
	pbonzini@redhat.com, dan.j.williams@intel.com,
	rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com, kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com,
	ying.huang@intel.com, reinette.chatre@intel.com,
	len.brown@intel.com, tony.luck@intel.com, ak@linux.intel.com,
	isaku.yamahata@intel.com, chao.gao@intel.com,
	sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@linux.intel.com, david@redhat.com,
	bagasdotme@gmail.com, sagis@google.com, imammedo@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 04/18] x86/virt/tdx: Add skeleton to initialize TDX on demand
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2023 09:23:40 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a44246e1-72de-4c9a-c602-dfc2f7df129b@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y+uCtZ7itiNsbR4j@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>

On 2/14/23 04:46, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 12:59:11AM +1300, Kai Huang wrote:
>> Use a state machine protected by mutex to make sure the initialization
>> will only be done once, as tdx_enable() can be called multiple times
>> (i.e. KVM module can be reloaded) and be called concurrently by other
>> kernel components in the future.
> I still object to doing tdx_enable() at kvm module load.
> 
> kvm.ko gets loaded unconditionally on boot, even if I then never use
> kvm.
> 
> This stuff needs to be done when an actual VM is created, not before.

The actually implementation of this is hidden over in the KVM side of
this.  But, tdx_enable() and all of this jazz should not be called on
kvm.ko load.  It'll happen when the KVM tries to start the first TDX VM.

I think what Kai was thinking of was *this* sequence:

 1. insmod kvm.ko
 2. Start a TDX guest, tdx_enable() gets run
 3. rmmod kvm
 4. insmod kvm.ko (again)
 5. Start another TDX guest, run tdx_enable() (again)

The rmmod/insmod pair is what triggers the second call of tdx_enable().

  reply	other threads:[~2023-02-14 17:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-13 11:59 [PATCH v9 00/18] TDX host kernel support Kai Huang
2023-02-13 11:59 ` [PATCH v9 01/18] x86/tdx: Define TDX supported page sizes as macros Kai Huang
2023-02-13 11:59 ` [PATCH v9 02/18] x86/virt/tdx: Detect TDX during kernel boot Kai Huang
2023-02-13 11:59 ` [PATCH v9 03/18] x86/virt/tdx: Make INTEL_TDX_HOST depend on X86_X2APIC Kai Huang
2023-02-13 11:59 ` [PATCH v9 04/18] x86/virt/tdx: Add skeleton to initialize TDX on demand Kai Huang
2023-02-14 12:46   ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-02-14 17:23     ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2023-02-14 21:08       ` Huang, Kai
2023-02-13 11:59 ` [PATCH v9 05/18] x86/virt/tdx: Add SEAMCALL infrastructure Kai Huang
2023-02-13 17:48   ` Dave Hansen
2023-02-13 21:21     ` Huang, Kai
2023-02-13 22:39   ` Dave Hansen
2023-02-13 23:22     ` Huang, Kai
2023-02-14  8:57       ` Huang, Kai
2023-02-14 17:27         ` Dave Hansen
2023-02-14 22:17           ` Huang, Kai
2023-02-14 12:42   ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-02-14 21:02     ` Huang, Kai
2023-02-13 11:59 ` [PATCH v9 06/18] x86/virt/tdx: Do TDX module global initialization Kai Huang
2023-02-13 11:59 ` [PATCH v9 07/18] x86/virt/tdx: Do TDX module per-cpu initialization Kai Huang
2023-02-13 17:59   ` Dave Hansen
2023-02-13 21:19     ` Huang, Kai
2023-02-13 22:43       ` Dave Hansen
2023-02-14  0:02         ` Huang, Kai
2023-02-14 14:12           ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-02-14 22:53             ` Huang, Kai
2023-02-15  9:16               ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-02-15  9:46                 ` Huang, Kai
2023-02-15 13:25                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-02-15 21:37                     ` Huang, Kai
2023-03-06 14:26                       ` Huang, Kai
2023-02-13 18:07   ` Dave Hansen
2023-02-13 21:13     ` Huang, Kai
2023-02-13 22:28       ` Dave Hansen
2023-02-13 23:43         ` Huang, Kai
2023-02-13 23:52           ` Dave Hansen
2023-02-14  0:09             ` Huang, Kai
2023-02-14 14:12     ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-02-14 12:59   ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-02-13 11:59 ` [PATCH v9 08/18] x86/virt/tdx: Get information about TDX module and TDX-capable memory Kai Huang
2023-02-13 11:59 ` [PATCH v9 09/18] x86/virt/tdx: Use all system memory when initializing TDX module as TDX memory Kai Huang
2023-02-14  3:30   ` Huang, Ying
2023-02-14  8:24     ` Huang, Kai
2023-02-13 11:59 ` [PATCH v9 10/18] x86/virt/tdx: Add placeholder to construct TDMRs to cover all TDX memory regions Kai Huang
2023-02-13 11:59 ` [PATCH v9 11/18] x86/virt/tdx: Fill out " Kai Huang
2023-02-13 11:59 ` [PATCH v9 12/18] x86/virt/tdx: Allocate and set up PAMTs for TDMRs Kai Huang
2023-02-13 11:59 ` [PATCH v9 13/18] x86/virt/tdx: Designate reserved areas for all TDMRs Kai Huang
2023-02-13 11:59 ` [PATCH v9 14/18] x86/virt/tdx: Configure TDX module with the TDMRs and global KeyID Kai Huang
2023-02-13 11:59 ` [PATCH v9 15/18] x86/virt/tdx: Configure global KeyID on all packages Kai Huang
2023-02-13 11:59 ` [PATCH v9 16/18] x86/virt/tdx: Initialize all TDMRs Kai Huang
2023-02-13 11:59 ` [PATCH v9 17/18] x86/virt/tdx: Flush cache in kexec() when TDX is enabled Kai Huang
2023-02-13 11:59 ` [PATCH v9 18/18] Documentation/x86: Add documentation for TDX host support Kai Huang

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