Re: [PATCH v6 5/5] x86/sev: Add SNP-specific unaccepted memory support

From: Kirill A. Shutemov
Date: Thu Dec 08 2022 - 17:13:08 EST


On Thu, Dec 08, 2022 at 09:29:13AM -0600, Tom Lendacky wrote:
> Add SNP-specific hooks to the unaccepted memory support in the boot
> path (__accept_memory()) and the core kernel (accept_memory()) in order
> to support booting SNP guests when unaccepted memory is present. Without
> this support, SNP guests will fail to boot and/or panic() when unaccepted
> memory is present in the EFI memory map.
>
> The process of accepting memory under SNP involves invoking the hypervisor
> to perform a page state change for the page to private memory and then
> issuing a PVALIDATE instruction to accept the page.
>
> Since the boot path and the core kernel paths perform similar operations,
> move the pvalidate_pages() and vmgexit_psc() functions into sev-shared.c
> to avoid code duplication.
>
> Create the new header file arch/x86/boot/compressed/sev.h because adding
> the function declaration to any of the existing SEV related header files
> pulls in too many other header files, causing the build to fail.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 +
> arch/x86/boot/compressed/mem.c | 3 +
> arch/x86/boot/compressed/sev.c | 54 ++++++++++++++-
> arch/x86/boot/compressed/sev.h | 23 +++++++
> arch/x86/include/asm/sev.h | 3 +
> arch/x86/kernel/sev-shared.c | 103 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> arch/x86/kernel/sev.c | 112 ++++----------------------------
> arch/x86/mm/unaccepted_memory.c | 4 ++
> 8 files changed, 204 insertions(+), 99 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 arch/x86/boot/compressed/sev.h
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
> index d88f61940aa7..0704d4795919 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
> @@ -1549,6 +1549,7 @@ config AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT
> select INSTRUCTION_DECODER
> select ARCH_HAS_CC_PLATFORM
> select X86_MEM_ENCRYPT
> + select UNACCEPTED_MEMORY
> help
> Say yes to enable support for the encryption of system memory.
> This requires an AMD processor that supports Secure Memory

I think it misses "depends on EFI_STUB".

The code I've submitted contains "select EFI_STUB", but it causes build
issues for some configurations. I've changed it to "depends on" in git.

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Kiryl Shutsemau / Kirill A. Shutemov