Re: [PATCH Part1 RFC v3 07/22] x86/sev: Add a helper for the PVALIDATE instruction

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Mon Jun 07 2021 - 11:35:30 EST


On Wed, Jun 02, 2021 at 09:04:01AM -0500, Brijesh Singh wrote:
> +static inline int pvalidate(unsigned long vaddr, bool rmp_psize, bool validate)
> +{
> + bool no_rmpupdate;
> + int rc;

>From a previous review:

Please put over the opcode bytes line:

/* "pvalidate" mnemonic support in binutils 2.36 and newer */

> + asm volatile(".byte 0xF2, 0x0F, 0x01, 0xFF\n\t"
> + CC_SET(c)
> + : CC_OUT(c) (no_rmpupdate), "=a"(rc)
> + : "a"(vaddr), "c"(rmp_psize), "d"(validate)
> + : "memory", "cc");
> +
> + if (no_rmpupdate)
> + return PVALIDATE_FAIL_NOUPDATE;
> +
> + return rc;
> +}

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Boris.

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