On Thu, 2025-08-14 at 06:54 -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > static inline void tdx_init(void) { }
> > static inline int tdx_cpu_enable(void) { return -ENODEV; }
> > @@ -224,6 +225,7 @@ static inline int tdx_enable(void) { return -ENODEV; }
> > static inline u32 tdx_get_nr_guest_keyids(void) { return 0; }
> > static inline const char *tdx_dump_mce_info(struct mce *m) { return NULL;
> > }
> > static inline const struct tdx_sys_info *tdx_get_sysinfo(void) { return
> > NULL; }
> > +static inline void tdx_cpu_flush_cache(void) { }
>
> Stub is unnecessary. tdx.c is built iff KVM_INTEL_TDX=y, and that depends on
> INTEL_TDX_HOST.
>
> At a glance, some of the existing stubs are useless as well.
Oh, yep. We'll add it to the cleanup list.
>
> > #endif /* CONFIG_INTEL_TDX_HOST */
> >
> > #endif /* !__ASSEMBLER__ */
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/tdx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/tdx.c
> > index 66744f5768c8..1bc6f52e0cd7 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/tdx.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/tdx.c
> > @@ -442,6 +442,18 @@ void tdx_disable_virtualization_cpu(void)
> > tdx_flush_vp(&arg);
> > }
> > local_irq_restore(flags);
> > +
> > + /*
> > + * No more TDX activity on this CPU from here. Flush cache to
> > + * avoid having to do WBINVD in stop_this_cpu() during kexec.
> > + *
> > + * Kexec calls native_stop_other_cpus() to stop remote CPUs
> > + * before booting to new kernel, but that code has a "race"
> > + * when the normal REBOOT IPI times out and NMIs are sent to
> > + * remote CPUs to stop them. Doing WBINVD in stop_this_cpu()
> > + * could potentially increase the possibility of the "race".
> > + */
> > + tdx_cpu_flush_cache();
>
> IIUC, this can be:
>
> if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KEXEC))
> tdx_cpu_flush_cache();
>
No strong objection, just 2 cents. I bet !CONFIG_KEXEC && CONFIG_INTEL_TDX_HOST
kernels will be the minority. Seems like an opportunity to simplify the code.
But if we do this, we should probably compile out the unused
tdx_cpu_flush_cache() too.
> > }
> >
