On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 06:01:04PM +0100, Jeremi Piotrowski wrote: > Check for additional CPUID bits to identify TDX guests running with Trust > Domain (TD) partitioning enabled. TD partitioning is like nested > virtualization > inside the Trust Domain so there is a L1 TD VM(M) and there can be L2 TD > VM(s). > > In this arrangement we are not guaranteed that the TDX_CPUID_LEAF_ID is > visible > to Linux running as an L2 TD VM. This is because a majority of TDX facilities > are controlled by the L1 VMM and the L2 TDX guest needs to use TD partitioning > aware mechanisms for what's left. So currently such guests do not have > X86_FEATURE_TDX_GUEST set. > > We want the kernel to have X86_FEATURE_TDX_GUEST set for all TDX guests so we > need to check these additional CPUID bits, but we skip further initialization > in the function as we aren't guaranteed access to TDX module calls.
I don't follow. The idea of partitioning is that L2 OS can be unenlightened and have no idea if it runs indide of TD. But this patch tries to enumerate TDX anyway. Why? -- Kiryl Shutsemau / Kirill A. Shutemov
