Re: [PATCH v11 0/8] KVM: SVM: Enable Secure TSC for SEV-SNP

From: Huang, Kai
Date: Wed Aug 20 2025 - 07:28:01 EST


On Wed, 2025-08-20 at 14:18 +0530, Nikunj A. Dadhania wrote:
> >   - Continue on with snp_launch_start() if default_tsc_khz is '0'.  AFAICT,
> >     continuing on doesn't put the host at (any moer) risk. [Kai]
>
> If I hack default_tsc_khz  as '0', SNP guest kernel with SecureTSC spits out
> couple of warnings and finally panics:
>  

It's a surprise that the SEV_CMD_SNP_LAUNCH_START didn't fail in such
configuration. :-)