[RFC PATCH 7/7] target/i386: SEV: Add support for enabling Secure AVIC SEV feature

Naveen N Rao (AMD)
2025-09-11T11:57:57Z

Add support for enabling Secure AVIC VMSA SEV feature in SEV-SNP guests
through a new "secure-avic" boolean property on SEV-SNP guest objects.

Sample command-line:
-machine q35,confidential-guest-support=sev0 \
-object sev-snp-guest,id=sev0,cbitpos=51,reduced-phys-bits=1,secure-avic=on

Reviewed-by: Nikunj A Dadhania <nikunj@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Naveen N Rao (AMD) <naveen@kernel.org>
---
target/i386/sev.h | 1 +
target/i386/sev.c | 13 +++++++++++++
qapi/qom.json | 5 ++++-
3 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/target/i386/sev.h b/target/i386/sev.h
index 87e73034ad15..a374c144bccd 100644
--- a/target/i386/sev.h
+++ b/target/i386/sev.h
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ bool sev_snp_enabled(void);
#define SVM_SEV_FEAT_SNP_ACTIVE BIT(0)
#define SVM_SEV_FEAT_DEBUG_SWAP BIT(5)
#define SVM_SEV_FEAT_SECURE_TSC BIT(9)
+#define SVM_SEV_FEAT_SECURE_AVIC BIT(16)

typedef struct SevKernelLoaderContext {
char *setup_data;
diff --git a/target/i386/sev.c b/target/i386/sev.c
index facf51c810d9..f9170e21ca57 100644
--- a/target/i386/sev.c
+++ b/target/i386/sev.c
@@ -3147,6 +3147,16 @@ static void sev_snp_guest_set_secure_tsc(Object *obj, bool value, Error **errp)
sev_set_feature(SEV_COMMON(obj), SVM_SEV_FEAT_SECURE_TSC, value);
}

+static bool sev_snp_guest_get_secure_avic(Object *obj, Error **errp)
+{
+ return is_sev_feature_set(SEV_COMMON(obj), SVM_SEV_FEAT_SECURE_AVIC);
+}
+
+static void sev_snp_guest_set_secure_avic(Object *obj, bool value, Error **errp)
+{
+ sev_set_feature(SEV_COMMON(obj), SVM_SEV_FEAT_SECURE_AVIC, value);
+}
+
static void
sev_snp_guest_get_tsc_frequency(Object *obj, Visitor *v, const char *name,
void *opaque, Error **errp)
@@ -3210,6 +3220,9 @@ sev_snp_guest_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, const void *data)
object_class_property_add(oc, "tsc-frequency", "uint32",
sev_snp_guest_get_tsc_frequency,
sev_snp_guest_set_tsc_frequency, NULL, NULL);
+ object_class_property_add_bool(oc, "secure-avic",
+ sev_snp_guest_get_secure_avic,
+ sev_snp_guest_set_secure_avic);
}

static void
diff --git a/qapi/qom.json b/qapi/qom.json
index 5b99148cb790..5dce560a2f54 100644
--- a/qapi/qom.json
+++ b/qapi/qom.json
@@ -1105,6 +1105,8 @@
# @tsc-frequency: set secure TSC frequency. Only valid if Secure TSC
# is enabled (default: zero) (since 10.2)
#
+# @secure-avic: enable Secure AVIC (default: false) (since 10.2)
+#
# Since: 9.1
##
{ 'struct': 'SevSnpGuestProperties',
@@ -1118,7 +1120,8 @@
'*host-data': 'str',
'*vcek-disabled': 'bool',
'*secure-tsc': 'bool',
- '*tsc-frequency': 'uint32' } }
+ '*tsc-frequency': 'uint32',
+ '*secure-avic': 'bool' } }

##
# @TdxGuestProperties:
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