Re: [RFC PATCH v2 07/20] x86: Provide general kernel support for memory encryption

[Tom Lendacky]

On 09/07/2016 10:55 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 07, 2016 at 09:30:54AM -0500, Tom Lendacky wrote:
>> _PAGE_ENC is #defined as sme_me_mask and sme_me_mask has already been
>> set (or not set) at this point - so it will be the mask if SME is
>> active or 0 if SME is not active.
> 
> Yeah, I remember :-)
> 
>> sme_early_init() is merely propagating the mask to other structures.
>> Since early_pmd_flags is mainly used in this file (one line in
>> head_64.S is the other place) I felt it best to modify it here. But it
>> can always be moved if you feel that is best.
> 
> Hmm, so would it work then if you stick it in early_pmd_flags'
> definition like you do with the other masks? I.e.,
> 
> pmdval_t early_pmd_flags = __PAGE_KERNEL_LARGE | _PAGE_ENC & ~(_PAGE_GLOBAL | _PAGE_NX);

When does this value get initialized?  Since _PAGE_ENC is #defined to
sme_me_mask, which is not set until the boot process begins, I'm afraid
we'd end up using the initial value of sme_me_mask, which is zero.  Do
I have that right?

Thanks,
Tom

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