Add docs/system/i386/tdx.rst for TDX support, and add tdx in confidential-guest-support.rst Signed-off-by: Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li(a)intel.com&gt; --- Changes in v6: - Add more information of "Feature configuration" - Mark TD Attestation as future work because KVM now drops the support of it. Changes in v5: - Add TD attestation section and update the QEMU parameter; Changes since v1: - Add prerequisite of private gmem; - update example command to launch TD; Changes since RFC v4: - add the restriction that kernel-irqchip must be split --- docs/system/confidential-guest-support.rst | 1 + docs/system/i386/tdx.rst | 156 +++++++++++++++++++++ docs/system/target-i386.rst | 1 + 3 files changed, 158 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/system/i386/tdx.rst

+Feature Configuration +--------------------- + +Unlike non-TDX VM, the CPU features (enumerated by CPU or MSR) of a TD are not +under full control of VMM. VMM can only configure part of features of a TD on +``KVM_TDX_INIT_VM`` command of VM scope ``MEMORY_ENCRYPT_OP`` ioctl. + +The configurable features have three types: + +- Attributes: + - PKS (bit 30) controls whether Supervisor Protection Keys is exposed to TD, + which determines related CPUID bit and CR4 bit; + - PERFMON (bit 63) controls whether PMU is exposed to TD. + +- XSAVE related features (XFAM): + XFAM is a 64b mask, which has the same format as XCR0 or IA32_XSS MSR. It + determines the set of extended features available for use by the guest TD. + +- CPUID features: + Only some bits of some CPUID leaves are directly configurable by VMM. + +What features can be configured is reported via TDX capabilities. + +TDX capabilities +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +The VM scope ``MEMORY_ENCRYPT_OP`` ioctl provides command ``KVM_TDX_CAPABILITIES`` +to get the TDX capabilities from KVM. It returns a data structure of +``struct kvm_tdx_capabilities``, which tells the supported configuration of +attributes, XFAM and CPUIDs. + +TD attributes +~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +QEMU supports configuring raw 64-bit TD attributes directly via "attributes" +property of "tdx-guest" object. Note, it's users' responsibility to provide a +valid value because some bits may not supported by current QEMU or KVM yet. + +QEMU also supports the configuration of individual attribute bits that are +supported by it, via properties of "tdx-guest" object. +E.g., "sept-ve-disable" (bit 28). + +MSR based features +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +Current KVM doesn't support MSR based feature (e.g., MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES) +configuration for TDX, and it's a future work to enable it in QEMU when KVM adds +support of it. + +Feature check +~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +QEMU checks if the final (CPU) features, determined by given cpu model and +explicit feature adjustment of "+featureA/-featureB", can be supported or not. +It can produce feature not supported warning like + + "warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.07H:EBX.intel-pt [bit 25]" + +It can also produce warning like + + "warning: TDX forcibly sets the feature: CPUID.80000007H:EDX.invtsc [bit 8]" + +if the fixed-1 feature is requested to be disabled explicitly. This is newly +added to QEMU for TDX because TDX has fixed-1 features that are forcibly enabled +by TDX module and VMM cannot disable them.

+ +Launching a TD (TDX VM) +----------------------- + +To launch a TD, the necessary command line options are tdx-guest object and +split kernel-irqchip, as below: + +.. parsed-literal:: + + |qemu_system_x86| \\ + -object tdx-guest,id=tdx0 \\ + -machine ...,kernel-irqchip=split,confidential-guest-support=tdx0 \\ + -bios OVMF.fd \\

+ +Restrictions +------------ + + - kernel-irqchip must be split;

+ + - No readonly support for private memory; + + - No SMM support: SMM support requires manipulating the guest register states + which is not allowed; +