Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] x86/tdx: Add __tdcall() and __tdvmcall() helper functions

[Dan Williams]

On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 8:15 AM Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 22, 2021, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 06:21:07PM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> > > On 4/22/21 6:09 PM, Kuppuswamy, Sathyanarayanan wrote:
> > > > But let me try to explain it here. What I meant by complication is,
> > > > for in/out instruction, we use alternative_io() to substitute in/out
> > > > instructions with tdg_in()/tdg_out() assembly calls. So we have to ensure
> > > > that we don't corrupt registers or stack from the substituted instructions
> > > >
> > > > If you check the implementation of tdg_in()/tdg_out(), you will notice
> > > > that we have added code to preserve the caller registers. So, if we use
> > > > C wrapper for this use case, there is a chance that it might mess
> > > > the caller registers or stack.
> > > >
> > > >     alternative_io("in" #bwl " %w2, %" #bw "0",            \
> > > >             "call tdg_in" #bwl, X86_FEATURE_TDX_GUEST,    \
>
> Has Intel "officially" switched to "tdg" as the acronym for TDX guest?  As much
> as I dislike having to juggle "TDX host" vs "TDX guest" concepts, tdx_ vs tdg_
> isn't any better IMO.  The latter looks an awful lot like a typo, grepping for
> "tdx" to find relevant code will get fail (sometimes), and confusion seems
> inevitable as keeping "TDX" out of guest code/comments/documentation will be
> nigh impossible.
>
> If we do decide to go with "tdg" for the guest stuff, then _all_ of the guest
> stuff, file names included, should use tdg.  Maybe X86_FEATURE_TDX_GUEST could
> be left as a breadcrumb for translating TDX->TDG.
>
> > > >             "=a"(value), "d"(port))
> > >
> > > Are you saying that calling C functions from inline assembly might
> > > corrupt the stack or registers?  Are you suggesting that you simply
> >
> > It's possible, but you would need to mark a lot more registers clobbered
> > (the x86-64 ABI allows to clobber many registers)
> >
> > I don't think the stack would be messed up, but there might be problems
> > with writing the correct unwind information (which tends to be tricky)
> >
> > Usually it's better to avoid it.
>
> For me, the more important justification is that, if calling from alternative_io,
> the input parameters will be in the wrong registers.  The OUT wrapper would be
> especially gross as RAX (the value to write) isn't an input param, i.e. shifting
> via "ignored" params wouldn't work.
>
> But to Dave's point, that justfication needs to be in the changelog.

It's not clear to me that in()/out() need to be inline asm with an
alternative vs out-of-line function calls with a static branch?