Re: [PATCH v8 03/30] KVM: selftests: Store initial stack address in struct kvm_vcpu

From: Sean Christopherson
Date: Mon Aug 11 2025 - 14:14:04 EST


On Thu, Aug 07, 2025, Sagi Shahar wrote:
> From: Ackerley Tng <ackerleytng@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> TDX guests' registers cannot be initialized directly using
> vcpu_regs_set(), hence the stack pointer needs to be initialized by
> the guest itself, running boot code beginning at the reset vector.
>
> Store the stack address as part of struct kvm_vcpu so that it can
> be accessible later to be passed to the boot code for rsp
> initialization.

NAK. This bleeds x86 details into common code, and is again a convoluted way of
passing information into TDX specific code.

>
> Signed-off-by: Ackerley Tng <ackerleytng@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Sagi Shahar <sagis@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> tools/testing/selftests/kvm/include/kvm_util.h | 1 +
> tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/x86/processor.c | 2 ++
> 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/include/kvm_util.h b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/include/kvm_util.h
> index 9994861d2acb..5c4ca25803ac 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/include/kvm_util.h
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/include/kvm_util.h
> @@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ struct kvm_vcpu {
> int fd;
> struct kvm_vm *vm;
> struct kvm_run *run;
> + vm_vaddr_t initial_stack_addr;
> #ifdef __x86_64__
> struct kvm_cpuid2 *cpuid;
> #endif
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/x86/processor.c b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/x86/processor.c
> index 002303e2a572..da6e9315ebe2 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/x86/processor.c
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/x86/processor.c
> @@ -694,6 +694,8 @@ struct kvm_vcpu *vm_arch_vcpu_add(struct kvm_vm *vm, uint32_t vcpu_id)
> vcpu_init_sregs(vm, vcpu);
> vcpu_init_xcrs(vm, vcpu);
>
> + vcpu->initial_stack_addr = stack_vaddr;
> +
> /* Setup guest general purpose registers */
> vcpu_regs_get(vcpu, &regs);
> regs.rflags = regs.rflags | 0x2;
> --
> 2.51.0.rc0.155.g4a0f42376b-goog
>