[PATCH v4 02/24] x86/sev: Use MSR protocol for remapping SVSM calling area

From: Ard Biesheuvel
Date: Wed Jul 09 2025 - 04:11:40 EST


From: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx>

As the preceding code comment already indicates, remapping the SVSM
calling area occurs long before the GHCB page is configured, and so
calling svsm_perform_call_protocol() is guaranteed to result in a call
to svsm_perform_msr_protocol().

So just call the latter directly. This allows most of the GHCB based API
infrastructure to be moved out of the startup code in a subsequent
patch.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/boot/startup/sev-startup.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/startup/sev-startup.c b/arch/x86/boot/startup/sev-startup.c
index 0b7e3b950183..08b8c24fb469 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/startup/sev-startup.c
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/startup/sev-startup.c
@@ -325,7 +325,9 @@ static __head void svsm_setup(struct cc_blob_sev_info *cc_info)
call.caa = svsm_get_caa();
call.rax = SVSM_CORE_CALL(SVSM_CORE_REMAP_CA);
call.rcx = pa;
- ret = svsm_perform_call_protocol(&call);
+ do {
+ ret = svsm_perform_msr_protocol(&call);
+ } while (ret == -EAGAIN);
if (ret)
sev_es_terminate(SEV_TERM_SET_LINUX, GHCB_TERM_SVSM_CA_REMAP_FAIL);

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