Dropping Pavel as it bounces. On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 11:07:38AM -0500, Brijesh Singh wrote: > The tsc_early_init() is called before setup_arch() -> init_mem_mapping. Ok, I see it, thanks for explaining. So back to your original ideas - I'm wondering whether we should define a chunk of memory which the hypervisor and guest can share and thus communicate over... Something ala SEV-ES also with strictly defined layout and put all those variables there. And then the guest can map decrypted. There might be something similar though, I dunno. Maybe Paolo has a better idea... -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. SUSE Linux GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) --