History log of /linux-master/arch/x86/virt/vmx/tdx/Makefile
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# 765a0542 08-Dec-2023 Kai Huang <kai.huang@intel.com>

x86/virt/tdx: Detect TDX during kernel boot

Intel Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) protects guest VMs from malicious
host and certain physical attacks. A CPU-attested software module
called 'the TDX module' runs inside a new isolated memory range as a
trusted hypervisor to manage and run protected VMs.

Pre-TDX Intel hardware has support for a memory encryption architecture
called MKTME. The memory encryption hardware underpinning MKTME is also
used for Intel TDX. TDX ends up "stealing" some of the physical address
space from the MKTME architecture for crypto-protection to VMs. The
BIOS is responsible for partitioning the "KeyID" space between legacy
MKTME and TDX. The KeyIDs reserved for TDX are called 'TDX private
KeyIDs' or 'TDX KeyIDs' for short.

During machine boot, TDX microcode verifies that the BIOS programmed TDX
private KeyIDs consistently and correctly programmed across all CPU
packages. The MSRs are locked in this state after verification. This
is why MSR_IA32_MKTME_KEYID_PARTITIONING gets used for TDX enumeration:
it indicates not just that the hardware supports TDX, but that all the
boot-time security checks passed.

The TDX module is expected to be loaded by the BIOS when it enables TDX,
but the kernel needs to properly initialize it before it can be used to
create and run any TDX guests. The TDX module will be initialized by
the KVM subsystem when KVM wants to use TDX.

Detect platform TDX support by detecting TDX private KeyIDs.

The TDX module itself requires one TDX KeyID as the 'TDX global KeyID'
to protect its metadata. Each TDX guest also needs a TDX KeyID for its
own protection. Just use the first TDX KeyID as the global KeyID and
leave the rest for TDX guests. If no TDX KeyID is left for TDX guests,
disable TDX as initializing the TDX module alone is useless.

[ dhansen: add X86_FEATURE, replace helper function ]

Signed-off-by: Kai Huang <kai.huang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Isaku Yamahata <isaku.yamahata@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan <sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20231208170740.53979-1-dave.hansen%40intel.com


# c33621b4 15-Aug-2023 Kai Huang <kai.huang@intel.com>

x86/virt/tdx: Wire up basic SEAMCALL functions

Intel Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) protects guest VMs from malicious
host and certain physical attacks. A CPU-attested software module
called 'the TDX module' runs inside a new isolated memory range as a
trusted hypervisor to manage and run protected VMs.

TDX introduces a new CPU mode: Secure Arbitration Mode (SEAM). This
mode runs only the TDX module itself or other code to load the TDX
module.

The host kernel communicates with SEAM software via a new SEAMCALL
instruction. This is conceptually similar to a guest->host hypercall,
except it is made from the host to SEAM software instead. The TDX
module establishes a new SEAMCALL ABI which allows the host to
initialize the module and to manage VMs.

The SEAMCALL ABI is very similar to the TDCALL ABI and leverages much
TDCALL infrastructure. Wire up basic functions to make SEAMCALLs for
the basic support of running TDX guests: __seamcall(), __seamcall_ret(),
and __seamcall_saved_ret() for TDH.VP.ENTER. All SEAMCALLs involved in
the basic TDX support don't use "callee-saved" registers as input and
output, except the TDH.VP.ENTER.

To start to support TDX, create a new arch/x86/virt/vmx/tdx/tdx.c for
TDX host kernel support. Add a new Kconfig option CONFIG_INTEL_TDX_HOST
to opt-in TDX host kernel support (to distinguish with TDX guest kernel
support). So far only KVM uses TDX. Make the new config option depend
on KVM_INTEL.

Signed-off-by: Kai Huang <kai.huang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Isaku Yamahata <isaku.yamahata@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/4db7c3fc085e6af12acc2932294254ddb3d320b3.1692096753.git.kai.huang%40intel.com