Re: [PATCH Part1 v5 07/38] x86/sev: Add support for hypervisor feature VMGEXIT

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On 8/23/21 4:47 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
On Fri, Aug 20, 2021 at 10:19:02AM -0500, Brijesh Singh wrote:
Version 2 of GHCB specification introduced advertisement of a features
that are supported by the hypervisor. Add support to query the HV
features on boot.

Version 2 of GHCB specification adds several new NAEs, most of them are
optional except the hypervisor feature. Now that hypervisor feature NAE
is implemented, so bump the GHCB maximum support protocol version.

Signed-off-by: Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@xxxxxxx>
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  arch/x86/include/asm/mem_encrypt.h |  2 ++
  arch/x86/include/asm/sev-common.h  |  3 +++
  arch/x86/include/asm/sev.h         |  2 +-
  arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/svm.h    |  2 ++
  arch/x86/kernel/sev-shared.c       | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
  5 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

I think you can simplify more.

The HV features are read twice - once in the decompressor stub and again
in kernel proper - but I guess that's not such a big deal.

Also, sev_hv_features can be static.

Diff ontop:


The sev_hv_features is also referred during the AP creation. By caching the value in sev-shared.c and exporting it to others, we wanted to minimize VMGEXITs during the AP creation.

If we go with your patch below, then we will need to cache the sev_hv_features in sev.c, so that it can be later used by the AP creation code (see patch#22).

thanks



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