Re: [PATCH v4 00/75] x86: SEV-ES Guest Support

[Erdem Aktas]

I am using a custom, optimized and stripped down version, OVMF build.
Do you think it is because of the OVMF or grub?

In my case, there are 2 places where the CPUID is called: the first
one is to decide if long mode is supported, along with few other
features like SSE support and the second one is to retrieve the
encryption bit location.

-Erdem

On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 2:04 AM Joerg Roedel <jroedel@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Erdem,
>
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 09:48:51AM -0700, Erdem Aktas wrote:
> > Yes, I am using OVMF with SEV-ES (sev-es-v12 patches applied). I am
> > running Ubuntu 18.04 distro. My grub target is x86_64-efi. I also
> > tried installing the grub-efi-amd64 package. In all cases, the grub is
> > running in 64bit but enters the startup_32 in 32 bit mode. I think
> > there should be a 32bit #VC handler just something very similar in the
> > OVMF patches to handle the cpuid when the CPU is still in 32bit mode.
> > As it is now, it will be a huge problem to support different distro images.
> > I wonder if I am the only one having this problem.
>
> I havn't heard from anyone else that the startup_32 boot-path is being
> used for SEV-ES. What OVMF binary do you use for your guest?
>
> In general it is not that difficult to support that boot-path too, but
> I'd like to keep that as a future addition, as the patch-set is already
> quite large. In the startup_32 path there is already a GDT set up, so
> whats needed is an IDT and a 32-bit #VC handler using the MRS-based
> protocol (and hoping that there will only be CPUID intercepts until it
> reaches long-mode).
>
> Regards,
>
>         Joerg
>