[PATCH 00/44] KVM: Rework kvm_init() and hardware enabling
Huang, Kai
kai.huang at intel.com
Tue Nov 8 00:56:58 PST 2022
On Mon, 2022-11-07 at 21:43 -0800, Isaku Yamahata wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 08, 2022 at 01:09:27AM +0000,
> "Huang, Kai" <kai.huang at intel.com> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 2022-11-07 at 13:46 -0800, Isaku Yamahata wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Nov 04, 2022, Isaku Yamahata wrote:
> > > > > Thanks for the patch series. I the rebased TDX KVM patch series and it
> > > > > worked.
> > > > > Since cpu offline needs to be rejected in some cases(To keep at least one
> > > > > cpu
> > > > > on a package), arch hook for cpu offline is needed.
> > > >
> > > > I hate to bring this up because I doubt there's a real use case for SUSPEND
> > > > with
> > > > TDX, but the CPU offline path isn't just for true offlining of CPUs. When
> > > > the
> > > > system enters SUSPEND, only the initiating CPU goes through
> > > > kvm_suspend()+kvm_resume(),
> > > > all responding CPUs go through CPU offline+online. I.e. disallowing all
> > > > CPUs from
> > > > going "offline" will prevent suspending the system.
> > >
> > > The current TDX KVM implementation disallows CPU package from offline only
> > > when
> > > TDs are running. If no TD is running, CPU offline is allowed. So before
> > > SUSPEND, TDs need to be killed via systemd or something. After killing TDs,
> > > the
> > > system can enter into SUSPEND state.
> >
> > This seems not correct. You need one cpu for each to be online in order to
> > create TD as well, as TDH.MNG.KEY.CONFIG needs to be called on all packages,
> > correct?
>
> That's correct. In such case, the creation of TD fails. TD creation checks if
> at least one cpu is online on all CPU packages. If no, error.
I think we can just always refuse to offline the last cpu for each package when
TDX is enabled. It's simpler I guess.
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