Re: [PATCH v7 06/20] x86/virt/tdx: Shut down TDX module in case of error

[Sean Christopherson]

On Wed, Nov 23, 2022, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 11/23/22 08:20, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> >>> Why is it done that way?
> >>>
> >>> Can it be changed to delay TDX initialization until the first TDX guest
> >>> needs to run?
> >>>
> >> Sean suggested.
> >>
> >> Hi Sean, could you commenet?
> > Waiting until the first TDX guest is created would result in false advertising,
> > as KVM wouldn't know whether or not TDX is actually supported until that first
> > VM is created.  If we can guarantee that TDH.SYS.INIT will fail if and only if
> > there is a kernel bug, then I would be ok deferring the "enabling" until the
> > first VM is created.
> 
> There's no way we can guarantee _that_.  For one, the PAMT* allocations
> can always fail.  I guess we could ask sysadmins to fire up a guest to
> "prime" things, but that seems a little silly.  Maybe that would work as
> the initial implementation that we merge, but I suspect our users will
> demand more determinism, maybe a boot or module parameter.

Oh, you mean all of TDX initialization?  I thought "initialization" here mean just
doing tdx_enable().

Yeah, that's not going to be a viable option.  Aside from lacking determinisim,
it would be all too easy to end up on a system with fragmented memory that can't
allocate the PAMTs post-boot.