On Sat, Sep 16, 2017 at 07:34:16AM -0500, Brijesh Singh wrote: > When SEV is active, memory is encrypted with guest-specific key, and if with a > guest OS wants to share the memory region with hypervisor then it must the guest OS ... with the hypervisor ... > clear the C-bit (i.e set unencrypted) before sharing it. > > DEFINE_PER_CPU_UNENCRYPTED can be used to define the per-cpu variables > which will be shared between guest and hypervisor. Currently, KVM defines between a guest and a hypervisor. > three variables (steal-time, apf_reason, and avic_eio) which are shared > with hypervisor. This sentence should be the opening sentence of your commit message. > Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx> > Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> > Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: linux-arch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Cc: x86@xxxxxxxxxx > Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Cc: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@xxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@xxxxxxx> > --- > include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 11 +++++++++++ > include/linux/percpu-defs.h | 15 +++++++++++++++ > 2 files changed, 26 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h > index 8acfc1e099e1..363858f43cbc 100644 > --- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h > +++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h > @@ -777,6 +777,16 @@ > #define INIT_RAM_FS > #endif > > +#ifdef CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT > +#define PERCPU_UNENCRYPTED_SECTION \ > + . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE); \ > + *(.data..percpu..unencrypted) \ > + . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE); > +#else > +#define PERCPU_UNENCRYPTED_SECTION > +#endif > + > + > /* > * Default discarded sections. > * > @@ -815,6 +825,7 @@ > . = ALIGN(cacheline); \ > *(.data..percpu) \ > *(.data..percpu..shared_aligned) \ > + PERCPU_UNENCRYPTED_SECTION \ > VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__per_cpu_end) = .; So looking at this more: I'm wondering if we can simply reuse the PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED_SECTION definition which is for shared per-CPU sections. Instead of introducing a special section which is going to be used only by SEV, practically. Because "shared" also kinda implies that it is shared by multiple agents and those agents can just as well be guest and hypervisor. And then that patch is gone too. Hmmm...? -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. SUSE Linux GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) --