On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 05:16:32PM +0200, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> From: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@xxxxxxx>
>
> The functions are needed to map the GHCB for SEV-ES guests. The GHCB is
> used for communication with the hypervisor, so its content must not be
> encrypted. After the GHCB is not needed anymore it must be mapped
> encrypted again so that the running kernel image can safely re-use the
> memory.
>
> Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/boot/compressed/ident_map_64.c | 134 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
> arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.h | 2 +
> 2 files changed, 136 insertions(+)
...
> +
> +static int set_clr_page_flags(struct x86_mapping_info *info,
> + unsigned long address,
> + pteval_t set, pteval_t clr)
> +{
> + unsigned long scratch, *target;
> + pgd_t *pgdp = (pgd_t *)top_level_pgt;
> + p4d_t *p4dp;
> + pud_t *pudp;
> + pmd_t *pmdp;
> + pte_t *ptep, pte;
> +
> + /*
> + * First make sure there is a PMD mapping for 'address'.
> + * It should already exist, but keep things generic.
> + *
> + * To map the page just read from it and fault it in if there is no
> + * mapping yet. add_identity_map() can't be called here because that
> + * would unconditionally map the address on PMD level, destroying any
> + * PTE-level mappings that might already exist. Also do something
> + * useless
You mean something like this?
asm volatile("mov %[address], %%r9"
:: [address] "g" (*(unsigned long *)address)
: "r9", "memory");
The "memory" clobber should prevent gcc from optimizing that thing away
and r9 is callee-clobbered.
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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