Re: [PATCH 00/12] Introduce SEV-SNP support

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On Fri, Jun 21, 2024 at 12:06:01PM +0200, Michal Prívozník wrote:
> On 6/20/24 17:19, Jonathon Jongsma wrote:
> > On 6/20/24 6:22 AM, Michal Privoznik wrote:
> >> SEV-SNP support just landed in QEMU. Here is the first round of patches
> >> to incorporate support into libvirt.
> >>
> >> TODOs (aka problems of future me):
> >>
> >> - Teach tools/virt-qemu-sev-validate how to deal with SEV-SNP
> >> - Try to find a SEV-SNP machine a test these patches in real worl
> >> - Write a kbase article on attestation with SEV-SNP
> > 
> > None of the CPU models that we currently have in libvirt allow you to
> > run an SNP guest. That was the impetus behind my versioned CPU model
> > series:
> > https://lists.libvirt.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/thread/2GLISAQLU3ZTX7KSD732LM3CXU74JFEH/#2OZAJNGSVVNDQ4EZBITMOD2QJBX5NHWG
> > 
> > I've been meaning to push that series forward again, but hadn't gotten
> > to it yet.
> 
> I'm not that familiar with all gotchas, but should the following just work?
> 
>   <cpu mode='host-passthrough' migratable='off'/>
> 
> AFAIK, migration with SEV-SNP is not implemented yet.

It seems it is not that easy. Users are reporting seeing this error:

  SEV-SNP: CPUID validation failed for function 0x8000001d, index: 0x3, provided: eax:0x00000163, ebx: 0x03c0003f, ecx: 0x00003fff, edx: 0x00000006, expected: eax:0x00000163, ebx: 0x03c0003f, ecx: 0x00003fff, edx: 0x00000002

0x8000001d is the cache info reporting CPUID function, and index 3 is
the l3 cache info.

EPYC-v4, EPYC-Rome-v3, EPYC-Milan-v2 and EPYC-Genoa all have special
cache settings defined in QEMU which disables the 'complex_indexing'
bit which is 0x4 in edx.

I suggested cache passthrough

 <cpu mode='host-passthrough' migratable='off'>   <cache mode='passthrough'/></cpu>

but it was reported this doesn't work, suggesting the host still has
the 'complex_indexing' bit.

IOW, as it exists now, libvirt appears incapable of running SNP
guests except on Genoa, where we don't need a newer CPU version :-(

With regards,
Daniel
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