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authorKai Huang <kai.huang@intel.com>2025-07-14 10:20:19 +1200
committerSean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>2025-07-14 15:29:33 -0700
commitdcbe5a466c123a475bb66492749549f09b5cab00 (patch)
treea6748b4281f37c74cb74ad0b30b240e98f9994cd
parent95826e1ed3592cb81262c7e533ddea60751095c9 (diff)
KVM: x86: Reject KVM_SET_TSC_KHZ VM ioctl when vCPUs have been created
Reject the KVM_SET_TSC_KHZ VM ioctl when vCPUs have been created and update the documentation to reflect it. The VM scope KVM_SET_TSC_KHZ ioctl is used to set up the default TSC frequency that all subsequently created vCPUs can use. It is only intended to be called before any vCPU is created. Allowing it to be called after that only results in confusion but nothing good. Note this is an ABI change. But currently in Qemu (the de facto userspace VMM) only TDX uses this VM ioctl, and it is only called once before creating any vCPU, therefore the risk of breaking userspace is pretty low. Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Kai Huang <kai.huang@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Chao Gao <chao.gao@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Nikunj A Dadhania <nikunj@amd.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/135a35223ce8d01cea06b6cef30bfe494ec85827.1752444335.git.kai.huang@intel.com Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst2
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kvm/x86.c9
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst
index 6be1ddedec49..dcddef1dd47b 100644
--- a/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst
+++ b/Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst
@@ -2006,7 +2006,7 @@ frequency is KHz.
If the KVM_CAP_VM_TSC_CONTROL capability is advertised, this can also
be used as a vm ioctl to set the initial tsc frequency of subsequently
-created vCPUs.
+created vCPUs. Note, the vm ioctl is only allowed prior to creating vCPUs.
4.56 KVM_GET_TSC_KHZ
--------------------
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index 912260e3725d..a247f67954ea 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -7326,9 +7326,12 @@ set_pit2_out:
if (user_tsc_khz == 0)
user_tsc_khz = tsc_khz;
- WRITE_ONCE(kvm->arch.default_tsc_khz, user_tsc_khz);
- r = 0;
-
+ mutex_lock(&kvm->lock);
+ if (!kvm->created_vcpus) {
+ WRITE_ONCE(kvm->arch.default_tsc_khz, user_tsc_khz);
+ r = 0;
+ }
+ mutex_unlock(&kvm->lock);
goto out;
}
case KVM_GET_TSC_KHZ: {