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From: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@amd.com>
To: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	<linux-coco@lists.linux.dev>, <x86@kernel.org>
Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>,
	"Nikunj A Dadhania" <nikunj@amd.com>,
	Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>,
	"Michael Roth" <michael.roth@amd.com>,
	Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, Naveen Rao <naveen.rao@amd.com>,
	David Kaplan <david.kaplan@amd.com>,
	Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>,
	"Dave Hansen" <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@amd.com>
Subject: [PATCH v4 10/10] KVM: SEV: Add support for SNP BTB Isolation
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2026 18:56:11 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260804235611.4053375-11-kim.phillips@amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260804235611.4053375-1-kim.phillips@amd.com>

Advertise support for BTB Isolation via SEV_VMSA_FEATURES when SNP is
enabled.  BTB Isolation is an optional feature that can be enabled by the
guest to ensure its guest Branch Target Buffers (BTBs) are not affected
by any context outside that guest.

SNP-active guests may choose to enable the Branch Target Buffer
Isolation mode through SEV_FEATURES bit 7 (BTBIsolation).

Unlike the sibling features advertised here (Secure TSC, IBPB-on-Entry),
BTB Isolation is advertised unconditionally.  This is deliberate, not an
oversight: the AMD64 APM (Vol. 2, Section 15.36.17 "Side-Channel
Protection") defines BTB Isolation as architecturally present on every
SEV-SNP-capable processor.  There is therefore no host enumeration bit
for it (no CPUID leaf or MSR capability), by design -- unlike
IBPB-on-Entry, whose host support is enumerated via
CPUID Fn8000_001F[IbpbOnEntry] bit 31 precisely because it is not
universal.  A per-feature host gate is thus neither possible nor
meaningful; if SNP is supported, BTB Isolation is present.

Also add SVM_SEV_FEAT_BTB_ISOLATION to the sev_init2 selftest's
SNP_ONLY_FEATURES and KNOWN_FEATURES to validate it is accepted
for SNP guests and rejected for SEV-ES.

For more info, refer to page 615, Section 15.36.17 "Side-Channel
Protection", AMD64 Architecture Programmer's Manual Volume 2: System
Programming Part 2, Pub. 24593 Rev. 3.42 - March 2024 (see Link).

Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=306250
Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@amd.com>
Assisted-by: ClaudeCode:claude-opus-4-7
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/svm.h                        | 2 ++
 arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c                            | 7 ++++++-
 tools/testing/selftests/kvm/x86/sev_init2_tests.c | 2 ++
 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/svm.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/svm.h
index 9d8107824d10..0da2234b71c6 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/svm.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/svm.h
@@ -309,10 +309,12 @@ static_assert((X2AVIC_4K_MAX_PHYSICAL_ID & AVIC_PHYSICAL_MAX_INDEX_MASK) == X2AV
 #define SVM_SEV_FEAT_RESTRICTED_INJECTION		BIT_ULL(3)
 #define SVM_SEV_FEAT_ALTERNATE_INJECTION		BIT_ULL(4)
 #define SVM_SEV_FEAT_DEBUG_SWAP				BIT_ULL(5)
+#define SVM_SEV_FEAT_BTB_ISOLATION			BIT_ULL(7)
 #define SVM_SEV_FEAT_SECURE_TSC				BIT_ULL(9)
 #define SVM_SEV_FEAT_IBPB_ON_ENTRY			BIT_ULL(21)
 
 #define SVM_SEV_FEAT_SNP_ONLY_MASK	(SVM_SEV_FEAT_SNP_ACTIVE | \
+					 SVM_SEV_FEAT_BTB_ISOLATION | \
 					 SVM_SEV_FEAT_SECURE_TSC | \
 					 SVM_SEV_FEAT_IBPB_ON_ENTRY)
 
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c
index 85a692840886..ee14795a20bd 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c
@@ -3220,7 +3220,12 @@ void __init sev_hardware_setup(void)
 		sev_supported_vmsa_features |= SVM_SEV_FEAT_DEBUG_SWAP;
 
 	if (sev_snp_enabled) {
-		sev_supported_vmsa_features |= SVM_SEV_FEAT_SNP_ACTIVE;
+		/*
+		 * Some SNP-only features such as BTB Isolation are
+		 * available on all systems that support SNP.
+		 */
+		sev_supported_vmsa_features |= SVM_SEV_FEAT_SNP_ACTIVE |
+					       SVM_SEV_FEAT_BTB_ISOLATION;
 
 		if (tsc_khz && cpu_feature_enabled(X86_FEATURE_SNP_SECURE_TSC))
 			sev_supported_vmsa_features |= SVM_SEV_FEAT_SECURE_TSC;
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/x86/sev_init2_tests.c b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/x86/sev_init2_tests.c
index ff4322a940c6..cf21bfffacb6 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/x86/sev_init2_tests.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/x86/sev_init2_tests.c
@@ -15,11 +15,13 @@
 
 #define SVM_SEV_FEAT_SNP_ACTIVE		BIT_ULL(0)
 #define SVM_SEV_FEAT_DEBUG_SWAP		BIT_ULL(5)
+#define SVM_SEV_FEAT_BTB_ISOLATION	BIT_ULL(7)
 #define SVM_SEV_FEAT_SECURE_TSC		BIT_ULL(9)
 #define SVM_SEV_FEAT_IBPB_ON_ENTRY	BIT_ULL(21)
 
 /* Features valid only for SNP guests, rejected for SEV-ES and below. */
 #define SNP_ONLY_FEATURES		(SVM_SEV_FEAT_SNP_ACTIVE | \
+					 SVM_SEV_FEAT_BTB_ISOLATION | \
 					 SVM_SEV_FEAT_SECURE_TSC | \
 					 SVM_SEV_FEAT_IBPB_ON_ENTRY)
 
-- 
2.43.0


      parent reply	other threads:[~2026-08-04 23:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-08-04 23:56 [PATCH v4 00/10] KVM: SEV: Add support for IBPB-on-Entry and BTB Isolation Kim Phillips
2026-08-04 23:56 ` [PATCH v4 01/10] x86/bugs: Only log missing retpoline when it's actually the missing mitigation Kim Phillips
2026-08-05  0:44   ` Borislav Petkov
2026-08-05 14:51     ` Kim Phillips
2026-08-05 22:49       ` Borislav Petkov
2026-08-06 20:12         ` Kim Phillips
2026-08-07  5:44           ` Borislav Petkov
2026-08-04 23:56 ` [PATCH v4 02/10] cpu/bugs: Allow forcing Automatic IBRS with SNP active using spectre_v2=eibrs Kim Phillips
2026-08-04 23:56 ` [PATCH v4 03/10] cpu/bugs: Fall back to AutoIBRS when retpoline unavailable on SNP CPUs Kim Phillips
2026-08-04 23:56 ` [PATCH v4 04/10] cpu/bugs: Allow spectre_v2=ibrs on x86 vendors other than Intel Kim Phillips
2026-08-04 23:56 ` [PATCH v4 05/10] KVM: SEV: Define SVM_SEV_FEAT_* flags using BIT_ULL() Kim Phillips
2026-08-04 23:56 ` [PATCH v4 06/10] KVM: selftests: sev_init2: Use BIT_ULL for VMSA feature bit definition Kim Phillips
2026-08-04 23:56 ` [PATCH v4 07/10] KVM: SEV: Disallow setting SNP-only features for non-SNP guests via a single mask Kim Phillips
2026-08-04 23:56 ` [PATCH v4 08/10] KVM: SEV: Advertise SVM_SEV_FEAT_SNP_ACTIVE Kim Phillips
2026-08-04 23:56 ` [PATCH v4 09/10] KVM: SEV: Add support for IBPB-on-Entry Kim Phillips
2026-08-04 23:56 ` Kim Phillips [this message]

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