Re: [PATCH V2 1/1] x86/tdx: Route safe halt execution via tdx_safe_halt()

[Dave Hansen]

On 1/31/25 18:32, Vishal Annapurve wrote:
...
> Are you hinting towards a model where TDX guest prohibits such call
> sites from being configured? I am not sure if it's a sustainable model
> if we just rely on the host not advertising these features as the
> guest kernel can still add new paths that are not controlled by the
> host that lead to *_safe_halt().

Let's say we required PARAVIRT_XXL for TDX guests and had TDX setup do:

static const typeof(pv_ops) tdx_irq_ops __initconst = {
        .irq = {
		.safe_halt = tdx_safe_halt,
	},
};

We could get rid of a _bit_ of what TDX is doing now, like:

        } else if (cpu_feature_enabled(X86_FEATURE_TDX_GUEST)) {
                pr_info("using TDX aware idle routine\n");
                static_call_update(x86_idle, tdx_safe_halt);

and it would also fix this issue. Right?

This commit:

	bfe6ed0c6727 ("x86/tdx: Add HLT support for TDX guests")

Makes it seem totally possible:

>     Alternative choices like PV ops have been considered for adding
>     safe_halt() support. But it was rejected because HLT paravirt calls
>     only exist under PARAVIRT_XXL, and enabling it in TDX guest just for
>     safe_halt() use case is not worth the cost.

and honestly it's seeming more "worth the cost" now since that partial
approach has a bug and might have more bugs in the future.