From: "Huang, Kai" <kai.huang@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 7/7] KVM: TDX: Explicitly do WBINVD when no more TDX SEAMCALLs
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2025 00:00:50 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f5101cfa773a5dd89dd40ff9023024f4782b8123.camel@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aJ5vz33PCCqtScJa@google.com>
On Thu, 2025-08-14 at 16:22 -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2025, Kai Huang wrote:
> > On Thu, 2025-08-14 at 11:00 -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > > > > > + */
> > > > > > + tdx_cpu_flush_cache();
> > > > >
> > > > > IIUC, this can be:
> > > > >
> > > > > if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KEXEC))
> > > > > tdx_cpu_flush_cache();
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > No strong objection, just 2 cents. I bet !CONFIG_KEXEC && CONFIG_INTEL_TDX_HOST
> > > > kernels will be the minority. Seems like an opportunity to simplify the code.
> > >
> > > Reducing the number of lines of code is not always a simplification. IMO, not
> > > checking CONFIG_KEXEC adds "complexity" because anyone that reads the comment
> > > (and/or the massive changelog) will be left wondering why there's a bunch of
> > > documentation that talks about kexec, but no hint of kexec considerations in the
> > > code.
> >
> > I think we can use 'kexec_in_progress', which is even better than
> > IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KEXEC) IMHO.
>
> I don't think that will accomplish what you want. E.g. kvm-intel.ko is unloaded
> after doing TDX things, while kexec_in_progress=false, and then some time later
> a kexec is triggered. In that case, stop_this_cpu() will still get stuck doing
> WBINVD.
Right. Thanks. Let me think more on this.
One minor thing is I think we should use IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE)
instead. Besides the CONFIG_KEXEC, there is another CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE,
and both of them select CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-08-15 0:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-08-13 23:59 [PATCH v6 0/7] TDX host: kexec/kdump support Kai Huang
2025-08-13 23:59 ` [PATCH v6 1/7] x86/kexec: Consolidate relocate_kernel() function parameters Kai Huang
2025-08-15 10:46 ` Borislav Petkov
2025-08-18 1:15 ` Huang, Kai
2025-08-13 23:59 ` [PATCH v6 2/7] x86/sme: Use percpu boolean to control WBINVD during kexec Kai Huang
2025-08-19 19:28 ` Borislav Petkov
2025-08-19 21:57 ` Huang, Kai
2025-08-13 23:59 ` [PATCH v6 3/7] x86/virt/tdx: Mark memory cache state incoherent when making SEAMCALL Kai Huang
2025-08-13 23:59 ` [PATCH v6 4/7] x86/kexec: Disable kexec/kdump on platforms with TDX partial write erratum Kai Huang
2025-08-13 23:59 ` [PATCH v6 5/7] x86/virt/tdx: Remove the !KEXEC_CORE dependency Kai Huang
2025-08-13 23:59 ` [PATCH v6 6/7] x86/virt/tdx: Update the kexec section in the TDX documentation Kai Huang
2025-08-13 23:59 ` [PATCH v6 7/7] KVM: TDX: Explicitly do WBINVD when no more TDX SEAMCALLs Kai Huang
2025-08-14 13:54 ` Sean Christopherson
2025-08-14 15:38 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2025-08-14 18:00 ` Sean Christopherson
2025-08-14 22:19 ` Huang, Kai
2025-08-14 23:22 ` Sean Christopherson
2025-08-15 0:00 ` Huang, Kai [this message]
2025-08-19 10:31 ` Paolo Bonzini
2025-08-19 21:53 ` Huang, Kai
2025-08-20 9:51 ` Paolo Bonzini
2025-08-20 11:22 ` Huang, Kai
2025-08-20 20:35 ` Paolo Bonzini
2025-08-20 21:34 ` Huang, Kai
2025-08-20 15:39 ` Paolo Bonzini
2025-08-14 22:25 ` Huang, Kai
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