Re: [PATCH v19 037/130] KVM: TDX: Make KVM_CAP_MAX_VCPUS backend specific

Isaku Yamahata
2024-03-23T01:13:40Z

On Fri, Mar 22, 2024 at 12:36:40PM +1300,
"Huang, Kai" <kai.huang@intel.com> wrote:

> So how about:

Thanks for it. I'll update the commit message with some minor fixes.

> "
> TDX has its own mechanism to control the maximum number of VCPUs that the
> TDX guest can use. When creating a TDX guest, the maximum number of vcpus
> needs to be passed to the TDX module as part of the measurement of the
> guest.
>
> Because the value is part of the measurement, thus part of attestation, it
^'s
> better to allow the userspace to be able to configure it. E.g. the users
the userspace to configure it ^,
> may want to precisely control the maximum number of vcpus their precious VMs
> can use.
>
> The actual control itself must be done via the TDH.MNG.INIT SEAMCALL itself,
> where the number of maximum cpus is an input to the TDX module, but KVM
> needs to support the "per-VM number of maximum vcpus" and reflect that in
per-VM maximum number of vcpus
> the KVM_CAP_MAX_VCPUS.
>
> Currently, the KVM x86 always reports KVM_MAX_VCPUS for all VMs but doesn't
> allow to enable KVM_CAP_MAX_VCPUS to configure the number of maximum vcpus
maximum number of vcpus
> on VM-basis.
>
> Add "per-VM maximum vcpus" to KVM x86/TDX to accommodate TDX's needs.
>
> The userspace-configured value then can be verified when KVM is actually
used
> creating the TDX guest.
> "

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Isaku Yamahata <isaku.yamahata@intel.com>