Re: [Part1 PATCH v4 15/17] percpu: introduce DEFINE_PER_CPU_UNENCRYPTED

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Hi Boris,

On 09/19/2017 05:39 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
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@@ -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...?


"..shared_aligned" section does not start and end with page-size alignment.
Since the C-bit works on PAGE_SIZE alignment hence the "..unencrypted" section
starts and ends with page-size alignment. The closest I can find is
"..page_aligned" but again it does not end with page-size alignment.

Additionally, since we clear the C-bit from unencrypted section hence we
should avoid overloading the existing section -- we don't want to expose more
than we wish.




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