On 2/20/23 10:38, Michael Roth wrote: > From: Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@xxxxxxx> > > The integrity guarantee of SEV-SNP is enforced through the RMP table. > The RMP is used with standard x86 and IOMMU page tables to enforce > memory restrictions and page access rights. The RMP check is enforced as > soon as SEV-SNP is enabled globally in the system. When hardware > encounters an RMP-check failure, it raises a page-fault exception. > > The rmp_make_private() and rmp_make_shared() helpers are used to add > or remove the pages from the RMP table. Improve the rmp_make_private() > to invalidate state so that pages cannot be used in the direct-map after > they are added the RMP table, and restored to their default valid > permission after the pages are removed from the RMP table. This is a purely "what" changelog. It doesn't explain the "why" at all. Could you please elaborate on why this unmapping operation is necessary?