Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] x86/sev: Add SEV-SNP CipherTextHiding support

From: Sean Christopherson
Date: Tue Dec 10 2024 - 17:58:09 EST


On Tue, Dec 10, 2024, Ashish Kalra wrote:
> On 12/9/2024 7:30 PM, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > Why can't we simply separate SNP initialization from SEV+ initialization?
>
> Yes we can do that, by default KVM module load time will only do SNP initialization,
> and then we will do SEV initialization if a SEV VM is being launched.
>
> This will remove the probe parameter from init_args above, but will need to add another
> parameter like VM type to specify if SNP or SEV initialization is to be performed with
> the sev_platform_init() call.

Any reason not to simply use separate APIs? E.g. sev_snp_platform_init() and
sev_platform_init()?

And if the cc_platform_has(CC_ATTR_HOST_SEV_SNP) check is moved inside of
sev_snp_platform_init() (probably needs to be there anyways), then the KVM code
is quite simple and will undergo minimal churn.

E.g.

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c
index 5e4581ed0ef1..7e75bc55d017 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c
@@ -404,7 +404,6 @@ static int __sev_guest_init(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_sev_cmd *argp,
unsigned long vm_type)
{
struct kvm_sev_info *sev = &to_kvm_svm(kvm)->sev_info;
- struct sev_platform_init_args init_args = {0};
bool es_active = vm_type != KVM_X86_SEV_VM;
u64 valid_vmsa_features = es_active ? sev_supported_vmsa_features : 0;
int ret;
@@ -444,8 +443,7 @@ static int __sev_guest_init(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_sev_cmd *argp,
if (ret)
goto e_no_asid;

- init_args.probe = false;
- ret = sev_platform_init(&init_args);
+ ret = sev_platform_init();
if (ret)
goto e_free;

@@ -3053,7 +3051,7 @@ void __init sev_hardware_setup(void)
sev_es_asid_count = min_sev_asid - 1;
WARN_ON_ONCE(misc_cg_set_capacity(MISC_CG_RES_SEV_ES, sev_es_asid_count));
sev_es_supported = true;
- sev_snp_supported = sev_snp_enabled && cc_platform_has(CC_ATTR_HOST_SEV_SNP);
+ sev_snp_supported = sev_snp_enabled && !sev_snp_platform_init();

out:
if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_SEV))