Guests communicate with VMMs with hypercalls. Historically, these
are implemented using instructions that are known to cause VMEXITs
like VMCALL, VMLAUNCH, etc. However, with TDX, VMEXITs no longer
expose the guest state to the host. This prevents the old hypercall
mechanisms from working. So, to communicate with VMM, TDX
specification defines a new instruction called TDCALL.
In a TDX based VM, since the VMM is an untrusted entity, an intermediary
layer -- TDX module -- facilitates secure communication between the host
and the guest. TDX module is loaded like a firmware into a special CPU
mode called SEAM. TDX guests communicate with the TDX module using the
TDCALL instruction.
A guest uses TDCALL to communicate with both the TDX module and VMM.
The value of the RAX register when executing the TDCALL instruction is
used to determine the TDCALL type. A leaf of TDCALL used to communicate
with the VMM is called TDVMCALL.
Add generic interfaces to communicate with the TDX module and VMM
(using the TDCALL instruction).
__tdx_module_call() - Used to communicate with the TDX module (via
TDCALL instruction).
__tdx_hypercall() - Used by the guest to request services from
the VMM (via TDVMCALL leaf of TDCALL).
Also define an additional wrapper _tdx_hypercall(), which adds error
handling support for the TDCALL failure.
The __tdx_module_call() and __tdx_hypercall() helper functions are
implemented in assembly in a .S file. The TDCALL ABI requires
shuffling arguments in and out of registers, which proved to be
awkward with inline assembly.
Just like syscalls, not all TDVMCALL use cases need to use the same
number of argument registers. The implementation here picks the current
worst-case scenario for TDCALL (4 registers). For TDCALLs with fewer
than 4 arguments, there will end up being a few superfluous (cheap)
instructions. But, this approach maximizes code reuse.
For registers used by the TDCALL instruction, please check TDX GHCI
specification, the section titled "TDCALL instruction" and "TDG.VP.VMCALL
Interface".
Based on previous patch by Sean Christopherson.
Signed-off-by: Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan <sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220405232939.73860-4-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
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