[PATCH v2 0/2] Improve KVM_SET_TSC_KHZ handling for CoCo VMs

From: Kai Huang
Date: Sun Jul 13 2025 - 18:20:48 EST


This series follows Sean's suggestions [1][2] to:

- Reject vCPU scope KVM_SET_TSC_KHZ ioctl for TSC protected vCPU
- Reject VM scope KVM_SET_TSC_KHZ ioctl when vCPUs have been created

.. in the discussion of SEV-SNP Secure TSC support series.

v1 -> v2:
- Protect kvm->create_vcpus check using kvm->lock. - Chao.
- Add documentation update to each patch. -Nikunj.
- Collect RB (Xiaoyao, Nikunj).
- Switched the patch order to make documentation update easier.

v1: https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/cover.1752038725.git.kai.huang@xxxxxxxxx/

Hi Xiaoyao, Nikunj, I added your RB anyway, so let me know if you have
concern :-)

This series has been sanity tested with TDX guests using today's Qemu:

- With this series Qemu can still run TDX guests successfully.
- With some hack to the Qemu, both VM and vCPU scope KVM_SET_TSC_KHZ
ioctls failed as expected.

Kai Huang (2):
KVM: x86: Reject KVM_SET_TSC_KHZ VM ioctl when vCPUs have been created
KVM: x86: Reject KVM_SET_TSC_KHZ vCPU ioctl for TSC protected guest

Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst | 9 ++++++++-
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 13 ++++++++++---
2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)


base-commit: 6c7ecd725e503bf2ca69ff52c6cc48bb650b1f11
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