[POC PATCH 3/6] KVM: selftests: Make guest_code_xsave more friendly

Ackerley Tng
2026-03-26T23:37:04Z

The original implementation of guest_code_xsave makes a jmp to
guest_sev_es_code in inline assembly. When code that uses guest_sev_es_code
is removed, guest_sev_es_code will be optimized out, leading to a linking
error since guest_code_xsave still tries to jmp to guest_sev_es_code.

Rewrite guest_code_xsave() to instead make a call, in C, to
guest_sev_es_code(), so that usage of guest_sev_es_code() is made known to
the compiler.

This rewriting also gives a name to the xsave inline assembly, improving
readability.

Signed-off-by: Ackerley Tng <ackerleytng@google.com>
---
.../selftests/kvm/x86/sev_smoke_test.c | 24 +++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/x86/sev_smoke_test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/x86/sev_smoke_test.c
index 8bd37a476f159..7e69da01cecf4 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/x86/sev_smoke_test.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/x86/sev_smoke_test.c
@@ -80,13 +80,23 @@ static void guest_sev_code(void)
GUEST_DONE();
}

-/* Stash state passed via VMSA before any compiled code runs. */
-extern void guest_code_xsave(void);
-asm("guest_code_xsave:\n"
- "mov $" __stringify(XFEATURE_MASK_X87_AVX) ", %eax\n"
- "xor %edx, %edx\n"
- "xsave (%rdi)\n"
- "jmp guest_sev_es_code");
+static void xsave_all_registers(void *addr)
+{
+ __asm__ __volatile__(
+ "mov $" __stringify(XFEATURE_MASK_X87_AVX) ", %eax\n"
+ "xor %edx, %edx\n"
+ "xsave (%0)"
+ :
+ : "r"(addr)
+ : "eax", "edx", "memory"
+ );
+}
+
+static void guest_code_xsave(void *vmsa_gva)
+{
+ xsave_all_registers(vmsa_gva);
+ guest_sev_es_code();
+}

static void compare_xsave(u8 *from_host, u8 *from_guest)
{
--
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