Re: [RFC PATCH v5 089/104] KVM: TDX: Add a placeholder for handler of TDX hypercalls (TDG.VP.VMCALL)

From: Sean Christopherson
Date: Thu Apr 07 2022 - 10:40:07 EST


On Thu, Apr 07, 2022, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 4/7/22 06:15, Kai Huang wrote:
> > > +static int handle_tdvmcall(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> > > +{
> > > + struct vcpu_tdx *tdx = to_tdx(vcpu);
> > > +
> > > + if (unlikely(tdx->tdvmcall.xmm_mask))
> > > + goto unsupported;
> > Put a comment explaining this logic?
> >
>
> This only seems to be necessary for Hyper-V hypercalls, which however are
> not supported by this series in TDX guests (because the kvm_hv_hypercall
> still calls kvm_*_read, likewise for Xen).
>
> So for now this conditional can be dropped.

I'd prefer to keep the sanity check, it's a cheap and easy way to detect a clear
cut guest bug. E.g. KVM would be within its rights to write garbage the XMM
registers in this case. Even though KVM isn't to be trusted, KVM can still be
nice to the guest.