[PATCH 00/44] KVM: Rework kvm_init() and hardware enabling

Huang, Kai kai.huang at intel.com
Tue Nov 8 02:35:02 PST 2022


On Tue, 2022-11-08 at 08:56 +0000, Huang, Kai wrote:
> 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.

Sorry I wasn't reading carefully.  Please ignore.  We need to support suspend :)


More information about the kvm-riscv mailing list