[PATCH v3 20/25] KVM: TDX: Add macro to retry SEAMCALLs when forcing vCPUs out of guest
Sean Christopherson
seanjc at google.com
Tue Oct 28 06:20:10 AEDT 2025
On Fri, Oct 24, 2025, Kai Huang wrote:
> On Thu, 2025-10-16 at 17:32 -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > Add a macro to handle kicking vCPUs out of the guest and retrying
> > SEAMCALLs on -EBUSY instead of providing small helpers to be used by each
> > SEAMCALL. Wrapping the SEAMCALLs in a macro makes it a little harder to
> > tease out which SEAMCALL is being made, but significantly reduces the
> > amount of copy+paste code and makes it all but impossible to leave an
> > elevated wait_for_sept_zap.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc at google.com>
> > ---
> > arch/x86/kvm/vmx/tdx.c | 72 ++++++++++++++----------------------------
> > 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 49 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/tdx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/tdx.c
> > index f6782b0ffa98..2e2dab89c98f 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/tdx.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/tdx.c
> > @@ -294,25 +294,24 @@ static inline void tdx_disassociate_vp(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> > vcpu->cpu = -1;
> > }
> >
> > -static void tdx_no_vcpus_enter_start(struct kvm *kvm)
> > -{
> > - struct kvm_tdx *kvm_tdx = to_kvm_tdx(kvm);
> > -
> > - lockdep_assert_held_write(&kvm->mmu_lock);
> > -
> > - WRITE_ONCE(kvm_tdx->wait_for_sept_zap, true);
> > -
> > - kvm_make_all_cpus_request(kvm, KVM_REQ_OUTSIDE_GUEST_MODE);
> > -}
> > -
> > -static void tdx_no_vcpus_enter_stop(struct kvm *kvm)
> > -{
> > - struct kvm_tdx *kvm_tdx = to_kvm_tdx(kvm);
> > -
> > - lockdep_assert_held_write(&kvm->mmu_lock);
> > -
> > - WRITE_ONCE(kvm_tdx->wait_for_sept_zap, false);
> > -}
> > +#define tdh_do_no_vcpus(tdh_func, kvm, args...) \
> > +({ \
> > + struct kvm_tdx *__kvm_tdx = to_kvm_tdx(kvm); \
> > + u64 __err; \
> > + \
> > + lockdep_assert_held_write(&kvm->mmu_lock); \
> > + \
> > + __err = tdh_func(args); \
> > + if (unlikely(tdx_operand_busy(__err))) { \
> > + WRITE_ONCE(__kvm_tdx->wait_for_sept_zap, true); \
> > + kvm_make_all_cpus_request(kvm, KVM_REQ_OUTSIDE_GUEST_MODE); \
> > + \
> > + __err = tdh_func(args); \
> > + \
> > + WRITE_ONCE(__kvm_tdx->wait_for_sept_zap, false); \
> > + } \
> > + __err; \
> > +})
>
> The comment which says "the second retry should succeed" is lost, could we
> add it to tdh_do_no_vcpus()?
+1, definitely needs a comment.
/*
* Execute a SEAMCALL related to removing/blocking S-EPT entries, with a single
* retry (if necessary) after forcing vCPUs to exit and wait for the operation
* to complete. All flows that remove/block S-EPT entries run with mmu_lock
* held for write, i.e. are mutually exlusive with each other, but they aren't
* mutually exclusive with vCPUs running (because that would be overkill), and
* so can fail with "operand busy" if a vCPU acquires a required lock in the
* TDX-Module.
*
* Note, the retry is guaranteed to succeed, absent KVM and/or TDX-Module bugs.
*/
> Also, perhaps we can just TDX_BUG_ON() inside tdh_do_no_vcpus() when the
> second call of tdh_func() fails?
Heh, this also caught my eye when typing up the comment. Unfortunately, I don't
think it's worth doing the TDX_BUG_ON() inside the macro as that would require
plumbing in the UPPERCASE name, and doesn't work well with the variadic arguments,
e.g. TRACK wants TDX_BUG_ON(), but REMOVE and BLOCK want TDX_BUG_ON_2().
Given that REMOVE and BLOCK need to check the return value, getting the TDX_BUG_ON()
call into the macro wouldn't buy that much.
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