[PATCH 3/4] kvm: svm: Support guest-provided VMSA for launching
From: Jörg Rödel
Date: Thu Jun 11 2026 - 08:37:29 EST
From: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@xxxxxxx>
Introduce a way to provide a guest GPA as the initial BSP VMSA and
avoid allocating KVM-managed VMSAs in this case. Only one
guest-provided VMSA is supported at the moment as IGVM also only
supports to set a single VMSA.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@xxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c | 62 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h | 1 +
2 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c
index 350bb97c32c0..88db83b3ff8e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c
@@ -726,6 +726,7 @@ static int __sev_guest_init(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_sev_cmd *argp,
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&sev->regions_list);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&sev->mirror_vms);
+ sev->initial_vmsa_gpa = INVALID_PAGE;
sev->need_init = false;
kvm_set_apicv_inhibit(kvm, APICV_INHIBIT_REASON_SEV);
@@ -2680,6 +2681,46 @@ static int snp_launch_update(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_sev_cmd *argp)
return 0;
}
+static int snp_init_guest_vmsa(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gpa_t vmsa_gpa)
+{
+ /* Only one initial guest VMSA can exist (per IGVM) - so it belongs to the BSP */
+ if (vcpu->vcpu_idx != 0)
+ return 0;
+
+ /* VMSA already private and encrypted via LAUNCH_UPDATE */
+ sev_es_set_guest_vmsa(vcpu, vmsa_gpa);
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static int snp_init_kvm_vmsa(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
+ struct sev_data_snp_launch_update *data,
+ struct kvm_sev_cmd *argp)
+{
+ struct vcpu_svm *svm = to_svm(vcpu);
+ int ret;
+ void *vmsa;
+
+ ret = sev_es_sync_vmsa(svm);
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
+
+ vmsa = sev_es_vmsa_ref(vcpu);
+
+ ret = sev_es_vcpu_vmsa_make_private(vcpu);
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
+
+ /* Issue the SNP command to encrypt the VMSA */
+ data->address = __sme_pa(vmsa);
+ ret = __sev_issue_cmd(argp->sev_fd, SEV_CMD_SNP_LAUNCH_UPDATE,
+ data, &argp->error);
+ if (ret)
+ sev_snp_vcpu_reclaim_vmsa(vcpu);
+
+ return ret;
+}
+
static int snp_launch_update_vmsa(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_sev_cmd *argp)
{
struct kvm_sev_info *sev = to_kvm_sev_info(kvm);
@@ -2700,28 +2741,13 @@ static int snp_launch_update_vmsa(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_sev_cmd *argp)
kvm_for_each_vcpu(i, vcpu, kvm) {
struct vcpu_svm *svm = to_svm(vcpu);
- void *vmsa;
- ret = sev_es_sync_vmsa(svm);
+ ret = VALID_PAGE(sev->initial_vmsa_gpa) ?
+ snp_init_guest_vmsa(vcpu, sev->initial_vmsa_gpa) :
+ snp_init_kvm_vmsa(vcpu, &data, argp);
if (ret)
goto out;
- vmsa = sev_es_vmsa_ref(vcpu);
-
- ret = sev_es_vcpu_vmsa_make_private(vcpu);
- if (ret)
- goto out;
-
- /* Issue the SNP command to encrypt the VMSA */
- data.address = __sme_pa(vmsa);
- ret = __sev_issue_cmd(argp->sev_fd, SEV_CMD_SNP_LAUNCH_UPDATE,
- &data, &argp->error);
- if (ret) {
- sev_snp_vcpu_reclaim_vmsa(vcpu);
-
- goto out;
- }
-
svm->vcpu.arch.guest_state_protected = true;
/* VMSA encrypted - put it into the VMCB */
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h
index 3d4799f09b23..cc7e84c230bb 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h
@@ -117,6 +117,7 @@ struct kvm_sev_info {
struct mutex guest_req_mutex; /* Must acquire before using bounce buffers */
cpumask_var_t have_run_cpus; /* CPUs that have done VMRUN for this VM. */
bool snp_certs_enabled; /* SNP certificate-fetching support. */
+ gpa_t initial_vmsa_gpa; /* Optinal GPA of BSP VMSA - SEV-SNP only */
};
#endif
--
2.53.0