Re: [PATCH v7 09/45] x86/sev: Save the negotiated GHCB version
From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Tue Dec 07 2021 - 08:17:40 EST
On Tue, Dec 07, 2021 at 08:51:53PM +0800, Tianyu Lan wrote:
> Hi Brijesh:
Do me a favor please and learn not to top-post on a public mailing list.
Also, take the time to read Documentation/process/ before you send
upstream patches and how to work with the community in general.
> We find this patch breaks AMD SEV support in the Hyper-V Isolation
> VM. Hyper-V code also uses sev_es_ghcb_hv_call() to read or write msr
> value. The sev_es_check_cpu_features() isn't called in the Hyper-V
> code and so the ghcb_version is always 0.
If hyperv is going to expose hypervisor features, then it better report
GHCB v2. If not, then I guess < 2 or 1 or so, depending on how this is
defined.
> Could you add a new parameter ghcb_version for sev_es_ghcb_hv_call()
> and then caller may input ghcb_version?
No, your hypervisor needs to adhere to the spec and report proper ghcb
version. We won't be doing any accomodate-hyperv hacks.
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Boris.
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