Re: [PATCH Part1 RFC v4 20/36] x86/sev: Use SEV-SNP AP creation to start secondary CPUs

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Wed Aug 18 2021 - 04:39:47 EST


On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 05:13:54PM -0500, Tom Lendacky wrote:
> Well, yes and no. It really is just setting or clearing the VMSA page
> attribute. It isn't trying to update permissions for the lower VMPLs, so I
> didn't want to mislabel it as a general rmpadjust function. But it's a
> simple enough thing to change and if multiple VMPL levels are ever
> supported it can be evaluated at that time.

You got it - when we need more RMPADJUST functionality, then that should
be the function that gets the beefing up.

:-)

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