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author | Kai Huang <kai.huang@intel.com> | 2025-09-01 18:09:30 +0200 |
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committer | Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> | 2025-09-05 10:40:41 -0700 |
commit | 61221d07e815008ba758995d79fd442b5217f51a (patch) | |
tree | bea2a62ee1af9a3597fee758099c9028fa6bff19 /rust/kernel | |
parent | 5f9b5bd0c82925e4a71c5790a37b3142fec946d4 (diff) |
KVM/TDX: Explicitly do WBINVD when no more TDX SEAMCALLs
On TDX platforms, during kexec, the kernel needs to make sure there
are no dirty cachelines of TDX private memory before booting to the new
kernel to avoid silent memory corruption to the new kernel.
To do this, the kernel has a percpu boolean to indicate whether the
cache of a CPU may be in incoherent state. During kexec, namely in
stop_this_cpu(), the kernel does WBINVD if that percpu boolean is true.
TDX turns on that percpu boolean on a CPU when the kernel does SEAMCALL,
Thus making sure the cache will be flushed during kexec.
However, kexec has a race condition that, while remaining extremely rare,
would be more likely in the presence of a relatively long operation such
as WBINVD.
In particular, the kexec-ing CPU invokes native_stop_other_cpus()
to stop all remote CPUs before booting to the new kernel.
native_stop_other_cpus() then sends a REBOOT vector IPI to remote CPUs
and waits for them to stop; if that times out, it also sends NMIs to the
still-alive CPUs and waits again for them to stop. If the race happens,
kexec proceeds before all CPUs have processed the NMI and stopped[1],
and the system hangs.
But after tdx_disable_virtualization_cpu(), no more TDX activity
can happen on this cpu. When kexec is enabled, flush the cache
explicitly at that point; this moves the WBINVD to an earlier stage than
stop_this_cpus(), avoiding a possibly lengthy operation at a time where
it could cause this race.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/b963fcd60abe26c7ec5dc20b42f1a2ebbcc72397.1750934177.git.kai.huang@intel.com/
[Make the new function a stub for !CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE. - Paolo]
Signed-off-by: Kai Huang <kai.huang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Farrah Chen <farrah.chen@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250901160930.1785244-8-pbonzini%40redhat.com
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