Re: [RFC PATCH v2 16/32] x86: kvm: Provide support to create Guest and HV shared per-CPU variables
From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Wed Mar 29 2017 - 11:33:23 EST
On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 05:21:13PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> The GHCB would have to be allocated much earlier, possibly even by
> firmware depending on how things will be designed.
How about a statically allocated page like we do with the early
pagetable pages in head_64.S?
> I think it's premature to consider SEV-ES requirements.
My only concern is not to have to redo a lot when SEV-ES gets enabled.
So it would be prudent to design with SEV-ES in the back of our minds.
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