Re: [PATCH v13 01/19] Documentation/x86: Secure Launch kernel documentation

From: ross . philipson
Date: Fri Apr 11 2025 - 15:44:35 EST


On 4/10/25 10:50 PM, ALOK TIWARI wrote:


On 11-04-2025 02:11, Ross Philipson wrote:
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+ - Entry from the dynamic launch jumps to the SL stub.
+ - SL stub fixes up the world on the BSP.
+ - For TXT, SL stub wakes the APs, fixes up their worlds.
+ - For TXT, APs are left halted using MONITOR/MWAIT intructions.

typo intructions -> instruction

Thanks for the review. They are two separate instructions so is this really incorrect?

Thanks
Ross

+ - SL stub jumps to startup_32.
+ - SL main does validation of buffers and memory locations. It sets
+   the boot parameter loadflag value SLAUNCH_FLAG to inform the main
+   kernel that a Secure Launch was done.
+ - SL main locates the TPM event log and writes the measurements of

Thanks,
Alok