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From: "Gerd Hoffmann" <kraxel@redhat.com>
To: Min Xu <min.m.xu@intel.com>
Cc: devel@edk2.groups.io, Ard Biesheuvel <ardb+tianocore@kernel.org>,
	Jordan Justen <jordan.l.justen@intel.com>,
	Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@amd.com>,
	Erdem Aktas <erdemaktas@google.com>,
	James Bottomley <jejb@linux.ibm.com>,
	Jiewen Yao <jiewen.yao@intel.com>,
	Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V10 4/4] OvmfPkg: Enable TDX in ResetVector
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2021 11:32:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211021093211.uni6il2jucgb3glt@sirius.home.kraxel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8a9d1ec1b30c9fa10284f5d62bc521d156ca32cc.1634774871.git.min.m.xu@intel.com>

On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 08:17:34AM +0800, Min Xu wrote:
> RFC: https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3429
> 
> Intel's Trust Domain Extensions (Intel TDX) refers to an Intel technology
> that extends Virtual Machines Extensions (VMX) and Multi-Key Total Memory
> Encryption (MKTME) with a new kind of virutal machines guest called a
> Trust Domain (TD). A TD is desinged to run in a CPU mode that protects the
> confidentiality of TD memory contents and the TD's CPU state from other
> software, including the hosting Virtual-Machine Monitor (VMM), unless
> explicitly shared by the TD itself.
> 
> Note: Intel TDX is only available on X64, so the Tdx related changes are
> in X64 path. In IA32 path, there may be null stub to make the build
> success.
> 
> This patch includes below major changes.
> 
> 1. Ia32/IntelTdx.asm
> IntelTdx.asm includes below routines used in ResetVector
>  - IsTdx
>    Check if the running system is Tdx guest.
> 
>  - InitTdxWorkarea
>    It initialize the TDX_WORK_AREA. Because it is called by both BSP and
>    APs and to avoid the race condition, only BSP can initialize the
>    WORK_AREA. AP will wait until the field of TDX_WORK_AREA_PGTBL_READY
>    is set.
> 
>  - ReloadFlat32
>    After reset all CPUs in TDX are initialized to 32-bit protected mode.
>    But GDT register is not set. So this routine loads the GDT then jump
>    to Flat 32 protected mode again.
> 
>  - InitTdx
>    This routine wrap above 3 routines together to do Tdx initialization
>    in ResetVector phase.
> 
>  - IsTdxEnabled
>    It is a OneTimeCall to probe if TDX is enabled by checking the
>    CC_WORK_AREA.
> 
>  - CheckTdxFeaturesBeforeBuildPagetables
>    This routine is called to check if it is Non-TDX guest, TDX-Bsp or
>    TDX-APs. Because in TDX guest all the initialization is done by BSP
>    (including the page tables). APs should not build the tables.
> 
>  - TdxPostBuildPageTables
>    It is called after Page Tables are built by BSP.
>    byte[TDX_WORK_AREA_PGTBL_READY] is set by BSP to indicate APs can
>    leave spin and go.
> 
> 2. Ia32/PageTables64.asm
> As described above only the TDX BSP build the page tables. So
> PageTables64.asm is updated to make sure only TDX BSP build the
> PageTables. TDX APs will skip the page table building and set Cr3
> directly.
> 
> 3. Ia16/ResetVectorVtf0.asm
> In Tdx all CPUs "reset" to run on 32-bit protected mode with flat
> descriptor (paging disabled). But in Non-Td guest the initial state of
> CPUs is 16-bit real mode. To resolve this conflict, BITS 16/32 is used
> in the ResetVectorVtf0.asm. It checks the 32-bit protected mode or 16-bit
> real mode, then jump to the corresponding entry point.

Acked-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>


  reply	other threads:[~2021-10-21  9:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-21  0:17 [PATCH V10 0/4] Add Intel TDX support in OvmfPkg/ResetVector Min Xu
2021-10-21  0:17 ` [PATCH V10 1/4] OvmfPkg: Copy Main.asm from UefiCpuPkg to OvmfPkg's ResetVector Min Xu
2021-10-21  0:17 ` [PATCH V10 2/4] OvmfPkg: Clear WORK_AREA_GUEST_TYPE in Main.asm Min Xu
2021-10-21  9:28   ` Gerd Hoffmann
2021-10-21  0:17 ` [PATCH V10 3/4] OvmfPkg: Add IntelTdxMetadata.asm Min Xu
2021-10-21  0:17 ` [PATCH V10 4/4] OvmfPkg: Enable TDX in ResetVector Min Xu
2021-10-21  9:32   ` Gerd Hoffmann [this message]
2021-10-21  0:45 ` [PATCH V10 0/4] Add Intel TDX support in OvmfPkg/ResetVector Yao, Jiewen
2021-10-24  2:11 ` Yao, Jiewen

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