Re: [PATCH v2 07/11] KVM: x86: emulator/smm: add structs for KVM's smram layout

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On Thu, 2022-07-21 at 00:40 +0000, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2022, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> > Those structs will be used to read/write the smram state image.
> > 
> > Also document the differences between KVM's SMRAM layout and SMRAM
> > layout that is used by real Intel/AMD cpus.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  arch/x86/kvm/kvm_emulate.h | 139 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 139 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/kvm_emulate.h b/arch/x86/kvm/kvm_emulate.h
> > index 89246446d6aa9d..7015728da36d5f 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/kvm/kvm_emulate.h
> > +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/kvm_emulate.h
> > @@ -503,6 +503,145 @@ enum x86_intercept {
> >  	nr_x86_intercepts
> >  };
> >  
> > +
> > +/*
> > + * 32 bit KVM's emulated SMM layout
> > + * Loosely based on Intel's layout
> > + */
> > +
> > +struct kvm_smm_seg_state_32 {
> > +	u32 flags;
> > +	u32 limit;
> > +	u32 base;
> > +} __packed;
> > +
> > +struct kvm_smram_state_32 {
> > +
> > +	u32 reserved1[62];			/* FE00 - FEF7 */
> > +	u32 smbase;				/* FEF8 */
> > +	u32 smm_revision;			/* FEFC */
> > +	u32 reserved2[5];			/* FF00-FF13 */
> > +	/* CR4 is not present in Intel/AMD SMRAM image*/
> > +	u32 cr4;				/* FF14 */
> > +	u32 reserved3[5];			/* FF18 */
> 
> Again, I love this approach, but we should have compile-time asserts to verify
> the layout, e.g. see vmx_check_vmcs12_offsets().
> 

No objections, will do.

Best regards,
	Maxim Levitsky




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