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From: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
To: Dionna Amalie Glaze <dionnaglaze@google.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
	Michael Roth <michael.roth@amd.com>,
	Ashish Kalra <ashish.kalra@amd.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/11] x86/sev: Use kernel provided SVSM Calling Areas
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2024 08:43:57 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c0e1cd6a-4065-51ac-a398-aa48245f748f@amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAH4kHZh1AdjLBNZ-=R6MK3OUmaSSFPWi==C0KVnTOCfVJkYBA@mail.gmail.com>

On 1/26/24 18:45, Dionna Amalie Glaze wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 26, 2024 at 2:17 PM Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com> wrote:
>>
>> The SVSM Calling Area (CA) is used to communicate between Linux and the
>> SVSM. Since the firmware supplied CA for the BSP is likely to be in
>> reserved memory, switch off that CA to a kernel provided CA so that access
>> and use of the CA is available during boot. The CA switch is done using
>> the SVSM core protocol SVSM_CORE_REMAP_CAA call.
> 
> REMAP_CA, not CAA.

Will fix.

> 
>>
>> An SVSM call is executed by filling out the SVSM CA and setting the proper
>> register state as documented by the SVSM protocol. The SVSM is invoked by
>> by requesting the hypervisor to run VMPL0.
>>
>> Once it is safe to allocate/reserve memory, allocate a CA for each CPU.
>> After allocating the new CAs, the BSP will switch from the boot CA to the
>> per-CPU CA. The CA for an AP is identified to the SVSM when creating the
>> VMSA in preparation for booting the AP.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
>> ---
>>   arch/x86/include/asm/sev-common.h |  13 ++
>>   arch/x86/include/asm/sev.h        |  32 +++++
>>   arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/svm.h   |   1 +
>>   arch/x86/kernel/sev-shared.c      |  94 +++++++++++++-
>>   arch/x86/kernel/sev.c             | 207 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>>   arch/x86/mm/mem_encrypt_amd.c     |   8 +-
>>   6 files changed, 320 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/sev-common.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/sev-common.h
>> index 68a8cdf6fd6a..71db5ba020b9 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/sev-common.h
>> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/sev-common.h

>> +
>> +#define SVSM_CORE_CALL(x)              ((0ULL << 32) | (x))
> 
> Given that we should expect to see other SVSM protocols used in the
> kernel, should we not have
> 
> #define SVSM_PROTOCOL_CALL(protocol, call) (((unsigned long)(protocol)
> << 32) | (call))
> #define SVSM_CORE_PROTOCOL 0
> #define SVSM_ATTESTATION_PROTOCOL 1
> #define SVSM_VTPM_PROTOCOL 2
> 
> And then
> 
> #define SVSM_CORE_CALL(x) SVSM_PROTOCOL_CALL(SVSM_CORE_PROTOCOL, x)
> 
> or be cute and use symbol concatenation like
> 
> #define SVSM_PROTOCOL_ID(id) SVSM_##id##_PROTOCOL
> #define SVSM_CALL(id, call) SVSM_PROTOCOL_CALL(SVSM_PROTOCOL_ID(id), call)
> 
> So you can just do SVSM_CALL(CORE, 0) ?

I thought about doing things along that line. You could do it any number 
of ways, but it really just comes down to preference. I decided with just 
the explicit SVSM_CORE_CALL() form.

Thanks,
Tom

> 

  reply	other threads:[~2024-01-27 14:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-01-26 22:15 [PATCH 00/11] Provide SEV-SNP support for running under an SVSM Tom Lendacky
2024-01-26 22:15 ` [PATCH 01/11] x86/sev: Rename snp_init() in the boot/compressed/sev.c file Tom Lendacky
2024-01-27  0:05   ` Dionna Amalie Glaze
2024-01-27 14:38     ` Tom Lendacky
2024-01-26 22:15 ` [PATCH 02/11] x86/sev: Make the VMPL0 checking function more generic Tom Lendacky
2024-01-26 22:15 ` [PATCH 03/11] x86/sev: Check for the presence of an SVSM in the SNP Secrets page Tom Lendacky
2024-01-26 22:15 ` [PATCH 04/11] x86/sev: Use kernel provided SVSM Calling Areas Tom Lendacky
2024-01-27  0:45   ` Dionna Amalie Glaze
2024-01-27 14:43     ` Tom Lendacky [this message]
2024-01-26 22:15 ` [PATCH 05/11] x86/sev: Perform PVALIDATE using the SVSM when not at VMPL0 Tom Lendacky
2024-01-27  0:59   ` Dionna Amalie Glaze
2024-01-27 15:18     ` Tom Lendacky
2024-01-26 22:15 ` [PATCH 06/11] x86/sev: Use the SVSM to create a vCPU when not in VMPL0 Tom Lendacky
2024-01-26 22:16 ` [PATCH 07/11] x86/sev: Provide SVSM discovery support Tom Lendacky
2024-01-29 10:41   ` Jeremi Piotrowski
2024-01-29 15:18     ` Tom Lendacky
2024-01-26 22:16 ` [PATCH 08/11] x86/sev: Provide guest VMPL level to userspace Tom Lendacky
2024-01-27  1:06   ` Dionna Amalie Glaze
2024-01-27 15:43     ` Tom Lendacky
2024-01-26 22:16 ` [PATCH 09/11] virt: sev-guest: Choose the VMPCK key based on executing VMPL Tom Lendacky
2024-01-26 22:16 ` [PATCH 10/11] x86/sev: Extend the config-fs attestation support for an SVSM Tom Lendacky
2024-01-27  1:27   ` Dionna Amalie Glaze
2024-01-29 15:02     ` Tom Lendacky
2024-01-29 20:04       ` Dionna Amalie Glaze
2024-02-01 21:14         ` Tom Lendacky
2024-02-02  7:10   ` Dan Williams
2024-02-05 23:29     ` Kuppuswamy, Sathyanarayanan
2024-02-06 18:53       ` Tom Lendacky
2024-02-06 18:48     ` Tom Lendacky
2024-02-13  2:34       ` Dan Williams
2024-02-16 19:07         ` Tom Lendacky
2024-02-16 20:46           ` Dan Williams
2024-02-23 20:41         ` Tom Lendacky
2024-02-24  0:02           ` Dan Williams
2024-02-26 14:42             ` Tom Lendacky
2024-01-26 22:16 ` [PATCH 11/11] x86/sev: Allow non-VMPL0 execution when an SVSM is present Tom Lendacky
2024-02-12 10:40 ` [PATCH 00/11] Provide SEV-SNP support for running under an SVSM Reshetova, Elena
2024-02-16 19:46   ` Tom Lendacky
2024-02-19 16:57     ` Shutemov, Kirill
2024-02-19 17:54     ` Reshetova, Elena
2024-02-23 20:23       ` Tom Lendacky
2024-02-27 14:56         ` Reshetova, Elena

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