Re: [PATCH v9 11/18] x86/apic: Allow NMI to be injected from hypervisor for Secure AVIC

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Mon Aug 25 2025 - 11:22:36 EST


On Mon, Aug 11, 2025 at 03:14:37PM +0530, Neeraj Upadhyay wrote:
> Secure AVIC requires "AllowedNmi" bit in the Secure AVIC Control MSR
> to be set for NMI to be injected from hypervisor.

"So set it."

And drop that sentence repeating the whole thing again.

> Set "AllowedNmi"
> bit in Secure AVIC Control MSR to allow NMI interrupts to be injected
> from hypervisor.

> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h
> index 2a6d4fd8659a..2efc03d324c0 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h
> @@ -703,6 +703,9 @@
> #define MSR_AMD64_SNP_SECURE_AVIC BIT_ULL(MSR_AMD64_SNP_SECURE_AVIC_BIT)
> #define MSR_AMD64_SNP_RESV_BIT 19
> #define MSR_AMD64_SNP_RESERVED_MASK GENMASK_ULL(63, MSR_AMD64_SNP_RESV_BIT)
> +#define MSR_AMD64_SECURE_AVIC_CONTROL 0xc0010138
> +#define MSR_AMD64_SECURE_AVIC_ALLOWEDNMI_BIT 1
> +#define MSR_AMD64_SECURE_AVIC_ALLOWEDNMI BIT_ULL(MSR_AMD64_SECURE_AVIC_ALLOWEDNMI_BIT)
> #define MSR_AMD64_RMP_BASE 0xc0010132
> #define MSR_AMD64_RMP_END 0xc0010133
> #define MSR_AMD64_RMP_CFG 0xc0010136

s/_SECURE_AVIC_/_SAVIC_/g

and you'll have room again.

> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/x2apic_savic.c b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/x2apic_savic.c
> index 62681fa4f1a5..2bae2f711959 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/x2apic_savic.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/x2apic_savic.c
> @@ -23,6 +23,11 @@ struct secure_avic_page {
>
> static struct secure_avic_page __percpu *secure_avic_page __ro_after_init;
>
> +static inline void savic_wr_control_msr(u64 val)
> +{
> + native_wrmsr(MSR_AMD64_SECURE_AVIC_CONTROL, lower_32_bits(val), upper_32_bits(val));
> +}

Zap that silly wrapper.

Thx.

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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