Re: [PATCH Part2 RFC v4 25/40] KVM: SVM: Reclaim the guest pages when SEV-SNP VM terminates

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On Mon, Jul 19, 2021, Brijesh Singh wrote:
> 
> On 7/19/21 12:18 PM, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > > 
> > > Okay, I will add helper to make things easier. One case where we will
> > > need to directly call the rmpupdate() is during the LAUNCH_UPDATE
> > > command. In that case the page is private and its immutable bit is also
> > > set. This is because the firmware makes change to the page, and we are
> > > required to set the immutable bit before the call.
> > 
> > Or do "int rmp_make_firmware(u64 pfn, bool immutable)"?
> 
> That's not what we need.
> 
> We need 'rmp_make_private() + immutable' all in one RMPUPDATE.  Here is the
> snippet from SNP_LAUNCH_UPDATE.

Ah, not firmwrare, gotcha.  But we can still use a helper, e.g. an inner
double-underscore helper, __rmp_make_private().



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