Re: [PATCH v9 04/18] x86/virt/tdx: Add skeleton to initialize TDX on demand

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue Feb 14 2023 - 12:03:31 EST


On Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 12:59:11AM +1300, Kai Huang wrote:
> Use a state machine protected by mutex to make sure the initialization
> will only be done once, as tdx_enable() can be called multiple times
> (i.e. KVM module can be reloaded) and be called concurrently by other
> kernel components in the future.

I still object to doing tdx_enable() at kvm module load.

kvm.ko gets loaded unconditionally on boot, even if I then never use
kvm.

This stuff needs to be done when an actual VM is created, not before.