Re: [PATCHv4 09/30] x86/tdx: Add MSR support for TDX guests

Dave Hansen
2022-02-24T19:37:00Z

On 2/24/22 11:04, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 24, 2022, Dave Hansen wrote:
>> On 2/24/22 07:56, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
>>> diff --git a/arch/x86/coco/tdx.c b/arch/x86/coco/tdx.c
>>> index 0a2e6be0cdae..89992593a209 100644
>>> --- a/arch/x86/coco/tdx.c
>>> +++ b/arch/x86/coco/tdx.c
>>> @@ -116,6 +116,44 @@ void __cpuidle tdx_safe_halt(void)
>>> WARN_ONCE(1, "HLT instruction emulation failed\n");
>>> }
>>>
>>> +static bool read_msr(struct pt_regs *regs)
>>> +{
>>> + struct tdx_hypercall_args args = {
>>> + .r10 = TDX_HYPERCALL_STANDARD,
>>> + .r11 = EXIT_REASON_MSR_READ,
>> Just a minor note: these "EXIT_REASON_FOO"'s in r11 are effectively
>> *the* hypercall being made, right?
>>
>> The hypercall is being made in response to what would have otherwise
>> been a MSR read VMEXIT. But, it's a *bit* goofy to see them here when
>> the TDX guest isn't doing any kind of VMEXIT.
> But the TDX guest is doing a VM-Exit, that's all TDCALL is, an exit to the host.
> r10 states that this is a GHCI-standard hypercall, r11 holds the reason why the
> guest is exiting to the host. The guest could pretty it up by redefining all the
> VM-Exit reasons as TDX_REQUEST_MSR_READ or whatever, but IMO diverging from
> directly using EXIT_REASON_* will be annoying in the long run, e.g. will make it
> more difficult to grep KVM + kernel to understand the end-to-end flow.

I understand that it looks like an "exit" if you know how it's
implemented, know the history and squint at it funny. But, r11 is not
an exit reason. It's a hypercall number that just sometimes happens to
also take an exit reason as a convention. Don't confuse that with "r11
*is* an exit reason".

Heck, look at the GHCI spec. Does it simply cede some of the
sub-function space and map them directly to VMEXIT reasons? Nope. It
goes to the trouble of individually defining them:

12 Instruction.HLT
30 Instruction.IO
31 Instruction.RDMSR
32 Instruction.WRMSR
48 #VE.RequestMMIO
65 Instruction.PCONFIG

I'm not saying we need 15 new #defines. It would be really nice like
you say to be able to connect the host and guest sides with a grep. I
wouldn't hate if we did something like:

.r11 = hcall_func(EXIT_REASON_MSR_READ),

That retains greppability, but also tells you that r11 is a function
number. It even gives a nice place to stick a comment to say what the
heck is going on:

/*
* The TDG.VP.VMCALL-Instruction-execution sub-functions are defined
* independently from but are currently matched 1:1 with VMX
* EXIT_REASONs. Reusing the KVM EXIT_REASON macros makes it easier to
* connect the host and guest sides of these calls.
*/
static u64 hcall_func(u64 exit_reason)
{
return exit_reason;
}

Like I said, this is all a minor note. But, things like this really go
a long way for folks like me who don't spend our days looking at the KVM
code or thinking deeply about how the hypercall is implemented.