KVM: x86: Reject KVM_SET_TSC_KHZ VM ioctl when vCPUs have been created
authorKai Huang <kai.huang@intel.com>
Sun, 13 Jul 2025 22:20:19 +0000 (10:20 +1200)
committerSean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Mon, 14 Jul 2025 22:29:33 +0000 (15:29 -0700)
commitdcbe5a466c123a475bb66492749549f09b5cab00
treea6748b4281f37c74cb74ad0b30b240e98f9994cd
parent95826e1ed3592cb81262c7e533ddea60751095c9
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>
Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c