Re: [PATCHv7.1 02/30] x86/tdx: Provide common base for SEAMCALL and TDCALL C wrappers

[Kai Huang]

On Mon, 2022-04-04 at 06:51 -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 4/3/22 20:19, Kai Huang wrote:
> > Btw, I previous suggested perhaps we can just use -1ULL instead of above value
> > for TDX_SEAMCALL_VMFAILINVALID, but didn't get response.  The reason is this
> > value will only be used when detecting P-SEAMLDR using P-SEAMLDR's SEAMLDR.INFO
> > SEAMCALL.  Note your above SW-defined error codes is based on error code
> > definition for TDX module, but actually P-SEAMLDR has different error code
> > definition:
> 
> I suggested moving away from the -1 because it didn't really carry any
> additional information.  For folks that have the spec open day in and
> day out, it's easy for you to go look up what the components of that -1
> _mean_.
> 
> It sounds like there's a bug here (mixing up the P-SEAMLDR and TDX
> module error ABIs), but that doesn't mean that moving to -1 is the right
> answer.

I think it doesn't need to carry any additional information.  The error code is
used to represent VMfailInvalid, which happens before any P-SEAMLDR and TDX
module internal functionality is reached.  We just need a value which will
*never* conflict with actual error code returned by P-SEAMLDR and TDX module to
represent this case.

Both error code formats defined by P-SEAMLDR and TDX module has some reserved
bits which will never be set to 1.  I think we can just add a simple comment
explaining that and choose a value which has 1 set for those reserved bits (even
doesn't have to be -1). For example:

	/*
	 * Use -1ULL which will never conflict with any actual error code
	 * returned by both the P-SEAMLDR and the TDX module to represent
	 * VMfailInvalid.  Both error code definitions defined by the
	 * P-SEAMLDR and the TDX module have some reserved bits which will
	 * never be set to 1.
	 */
	#define TDX_SEAMCALL_VMFAILINVALID	GENMASK_ULL(63, 0)

> 
> Please just build up an error value the same way it was done for the
> software-defined TDX module error codes.

In this way the assembly code will need to set different value based on whether
%rax is a P-SEAMLDR leaf function and TDX module leaf function.  I think it's
unnecessary.  As I said above, I think this error doesn't need to have any
additional information.  We just need a value which will never conflict with any
actual error code from P-SEAMLDR and TDX module.

-- 
Thanks,
-Kai