From: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
To: "Naveen N Rao (AMD)" <naveen@kernel.org>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>,
Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>,
Nikunj A Dadhania <nikunj@amd.com>,
"Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>,
Eduardo Habkost <eduardo@habkost.net>,
Zhao Liu <zhao1.liu@intel.com>,
Michael Roth <michael.roth@amd.com>,
Roy Hopkins <roy.hopkins@randomman.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 6/9] target/i386: SEV: Add support for enabling debug-swap SEV feature
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2025 08:14:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871pnfjl0y.fsf@pond.sub.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4f0f28154342d562e76107dfd60ed3a02665fbfe.1758794556.git.naveen@kernel.org> (Naveen N. Rao's message of "Thu, 25 Sep 2025 15:47:35 +0530")
"Naveen N Rao (AMD)" <naveen@kernel.org> writes:
> Add support for enabling debug-swap VMSA SEV feature in SEV-ES and
> SEV-SNP guests through a new "debug-swap" boolean property on SEV guest
> objects. Though the boolean property is available for plain SEV guests,
> check_sev_features() will reject setting this for plain SEV guests.
Is this the sev_features && !sev_es_enabled() check there?
Does "reject setting this" mean setting it to true is rejected, or does
it mean setting it to any value is rejected?
> Though this SEV feature is called "Debug virtualization" in the APM, KVM
> calls this "debug swap" so use the same name for consistency.
>
> Sample command-line:
> -machine q35,confidential-guest-support=sev0 \
> -object sev-snp-guest,id=sev0,cbitpos=51,reduced-phys-bits=1,debug-swap=on
Always appreciated in commit messages.
I get "cannot set up private guest memory for sev-snp-guest: KVM
required". If I add the obvious "-accel kvm", I get "-accel kvm:
vm-type SEV-SNP not supported by KVM". I figure that's because my
hardware isn't capable. The error message could be clearer. Not this
patch's fault.
> Reviewed-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
> Signed-off-by: Naveen N Rao (AMD) <naveen@kernel.org>
> ---
> target/i386/sev.h | 1 +
> target/i386/sev.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
> qapi/qom.json | 6 +++++-
> 3 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/target/i386/sev.h b/target/i386/sev.h
> index 102546b112d6..8e09b2ce1976 100644
> --- a/target/i386/sev.h
> +++ b/target/i386/sev.h
> @@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ bool sev_snp_enabled(void);
> #define SEV_SNP_POLICY_DBG 0x80000
>
> #define SVM_SEV_FEAT_SNP_ACTIVE BIT(0)
> +#define SVM_SEV_FEAT_DEBUG_SWAP BIT(5)
>
> typedef struct SevKernelLoaderContext {
> char *setup_data;
> diff --git a/target/i386/sev.c b/target/i386/sev.c
> index 88dd0750d481..e9d84ea25571 100644
> --- a/target/i386/sev.c
> +++ b/target/i386/sev.c
> @@ -319,6 +319,11 @@ sev_set_guest_state(SevCommonState *sev_common, SevState new_state)
> sev_common->state = new_state;
> }
>
> +static bool is_sev_feature_set(SevCommonState *sev_common, uint64_t feature)
> +{
> + return !!(sev_common->sev_features & feature);
> +}
> +
> static void sev_set_feature(SevCommonState *sev_common, uint64_t feature, bool set)
> {
> if (set) {
> @@ -2744,6 +2749,16 @@ static int cgs_set_guest_policy(ConfidentialGuestPolicyType policy_type,
> return 0;
> }
>
> +static bool sev_common_get_debug_swap(Object *obj, Error **errp)
> +{
> + return is_sev_feature_set(SEV_COMMON(obj), SVM_SEV_FEAT_DEBUG_SWAP);
> +}
> +
> +static void sev_common_set_debug_swap(Object *obj, bool value, Error **errp)
> +{
> + sev_set_feature(SEV_COMMON(obj), SVM_SEV_FEAT_DEBUG_SWAP, value);
> +}
> +
> static void
> sev_common_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, const void *data)
> {
> @@ -2761,6 +2776,11 @@ sev_common_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, const void *data)
> sev_common_set_kernel_hashes);
> object_class_property_set_description(oc, "kernel-hashes",
> "add kernel hashes to guest firmware for measured Linux boot");
> + object_class_property_add_bool(oc, "debug-swap",
> + sev_common_get_debug_swap,
> + sev_common_set_debug_swap);
> + object_class_property_set_description(oc, "debug-swap",
> + "enable virtualization of debug registers");
> }
>
> static void
> diff --git a/qapi/qom.json b/qapi/qom.json
> index 830cb2ffe781..df962d4a5215 100644
> --- a/qapi/qom.json
> +++ b/qapi/qom.json
> @@ -1010,13 +1010,17 @@
> # designated guest firmware page for measured boot with -kernel
> # (default: false) (since 6.2)
> #
> +# @debug-swap: enable virtualization of debug registers
> +# (default: false) (since 10.2)
> +#
According to the commit message, setting @default-swap works only for
SEV-ES and SEV-SNP guests, i.e. it fails for plain SEV guests. Should
we document this here?
> # Since: 9.1
> ##
> { 'struct': 'SevCommonProperties',
> 'data': { '*sev-device': 'str',
> '*cbitpos': 'uint32',
> 'reduced-phys-bits': 'uint32',
> - '*kernel-hashes': 'bool' } }
> + '*kernel-hashes': 'bool',
> + '*debug-swap': 'bool' } }
>
> ##
> # @SevGuestProperties:
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-10-07 6:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-09-25 10:17 [PATCH v2 0/9] target/i386: SEV: Add support for enabling VMSA SEV features Naveen N Rao (AMD)
2025-09-25 10:17 ` [PATCH v2 1/9] target/i386: SEV: Generalize handling of SVM_SEV_FEAT_SNP_ACTIVE Naveen N Rao (AMD)
2025-09-25 10:17 ` [PATCH v2 2/9] target/i386: SEV: Ensure SEV features are only set through qemu cli or IGVM Naveen N Rao (AMD)
2025-09-25 10:17 ` [PATCH v2 3/9] target/i386: SEV: Consolidate SEV feature validation to common init path Naveen N Rao (AMD)
2025-09-25 10:17 ` [PATCH v2 4/9] target/i386: SEV: Validate that SEV-ES is enabled when VMSA features are used Naveen N Rao (AMD)
2025-09-25 10:17 ` [PATCH v2 5/9] target/i386: SEV: Enable use of KVM_SEV_INIT2 for SEV-ES guests Naveen N Rao (AMD)
2025-09-25 10:17 ` [PATCH v2 6/9] target/i386: SEV: Add support for enabling debug-swap SEV feature Naveen N Rao (AMD)
2025-10-07 6:14 ` Markus Armbruster [this message]
2025-10-08 8:20 ` Naveen N Rao
2025-09-25 10:17 ` [PATCH v2 7/9] target/i386: SEV: Add support for enabling Secure TSC " Naveen N Rao (AMD)
2025-09-25 10:17 ` [PATCH v2 8/9] target/i386: SEV: Add support for setting TSC frequency for Secure TSC Naveen N Rao (AMD)
2025-10-07 13:31 ` Tom Lendacky
2025-10-08 9:52 ` Naveen N Rao
2025-10-24 15:00 ` Tom Lendacky
2025-10-24 17:16 ` Naveen N Rao
2025-10-28 15:11 ` Tom Lendacky
2025-11-03 10:55 ` Naveen N Rao
2025-09-25 10:17 ` [PATCH v2 9/9] target/i386: SEV: Refactor check_sev_features() Naveen N Rao (AMD)
2025-10-24 13:59 ` [PATCH v2 0/9] target/i386: SEV: Add support for enabling VMSA SEV features Naveen N Rao
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