Re: [RFC PATCH v5 027/104] KVM: TDX: initialize VM with TDX specific parameters

[Kai Huang]

On Thu, 2022-04-07 at 09:29 +0800, Xiaoyao Li wrote:
> On 4/5/2022 8:58 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > On 3/4/22 20:48, isaku.yamahata@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > +    td_params->attributes = init_vm->attributes;
> > > +    if (td_params->attributes & TDX_TD_ATTRIBUTE_PERFMON) {
> > > +        pr_warn("TD doesn't support perfmon. KVM needs to save/restore "
> > > +            "host perf registers properly.\n");
> > > +        return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> > > +    }
> > 
> > Why does KVM have to hardcode this (and LBR/AMX below)?  Is the level of 
> > hardware support available from tdx_caps, for example through the CPUID 
> > configs (0xA for this one, 0xD for LBR and AMX)?
> 
> It's wrong code. PMU is allowed.
> 
> AMX and LBR are disallowed because and the time we wrote the codes they 
> are not supported by KVM. Now AMX should be allowed, but (arch-)LBR 
> should be still blocked until KVM merges arch-LBR support.

I think Isaku's idea is we don't support them in the first submission?

If so as I suggested, we should add a TODO in comment..