From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: "Singh, Brijesh" <brijesh.singh@amd.com>,
"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@redhat.com>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
"Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
"Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@redhat.com>,
"Joerg Roedel" <joro@8bytes.org>,
"Lendacky, Thomas" <Thomas.Lendacky@amd.com>,
"x86@kernel.org" <x86@kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 10/11] mm: x86: Invoke hypercall when page encryption status is changed
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2019 20:32:23 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1908292031480.1938@nanos.tec.linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1908292018500.1938@nanos.tec.linutronix.de>
On Thu, 29 Aug 2019, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Aug 2019, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 08:13:11PM +0000, Singh, Brijesh wrote:
> > > @@ -2060,6 +2067,14 @@ static int __set_memory_enc_dec(unsigned long addr, int numpages, bool enc)
> > > */
> > > cpa_flush(&cpa, 0);
> > >
> > > + /*
> > > + * When SEV is active, notify hypervisor that a given memory range is mapped
> > > + * encrypted or decrypted. Hypervisor will use this information during
> > > + * the VM migration.
> > > + */
> > > + if (sev_active())
> > > + set_memory_enc_dec_hypercall(addr, numpages << PAGE_SHIFT, enc);
> >
> > Btw, tglx has a another valid design concern here: why isn't this a
> > pv_ops thing? So that it is active only when the hypervisor is actually
> > present?
> >
> > I know, I know, this will run on SEV guests only because it is all
> > (hopefully) behind "if (sev_active())" checks but the clean and accepted
> > design is a paravirt call, I'd say.
>
> No. sev_active() has nothing to do with guest mode. It tells whether SEV is
> active or not. So yes, this calls into this function on both guest and
> host. The latter is beyond pointless.
Oops. sme != sev.
But yes, can we please hide that a bit better....
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-29 18:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-10 20:12 [PATCH v3 00/11] Add AMD SEV guest live migration support Singh, Brijesh
2019-07-10 20:13 ` [PATCH v3 01/11] KVM: SVM: Add KVM_SEV SEND_START command Singh, Brijesh
2019-08-22 10:08 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-08-22 13:23 ` Singh, Brijesh
2019-11-12 18:35 ` Peter Gonda
2019-11-12 22:27 ` Brijesh Singh
2019-11-14 19:27 ` Peter Gonda
2019-11-19 14:06 ` Brijesh Singh
2019-07-10 20:13 ` [PATCH v3 02/11] KVM: SVM: Add KVM_SEND_UPDATE_DATA command Singh, Brijesh
2019-08-22 12:02 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-08-22 13:27 ` Singh, Brijesh
2019-08-22 13:34 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-11-12 22:23 ` Peter Gonda
2019-07-10 20:13 ` [PATCH v3 03/11] KVM: SVM: Add KVM_SEV_SEND_FINISH command Singh, Brijesh
2019-08-26 13:29 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-07-10 20:13 ` [PATCH v3 04/11] KVM: SVM: Add support for KVM_SEV_RECEIVE_START command Singh, Brijesh
2019-07-10 20:13 ` [PATCH v3 05/11] KVM: SVM: Add KVM_SEV_RECEIVE_UPDATE_DATA command Singh, Brijesh
2019-08-27 12:09 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-11-14 21:02 ` Peter Gonda
2019-07-10 20:13 ` [PATCH v3 06/11] KVM: SVM: Add KVM_SEV_RECEIVE_FINISH command Singh, Brijesh
2019-08-27 12:19 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-07-10 20:13 ` [PATCH v3 07/11] KVM: x86: Add AMD SEV specific Hypercall3 Singh, Brijesh
2019-07-10 20:13 ` [PATCH v3 08/11] KVM: X86: Introduce KVM_HC_PAGE_ENC_STATUS hypercall Singh, Brijesh
2019-07-21 20:57 ` David Rientjes
2019-07-22 17:12 ` Cfir Cohen
2019-07-23 15:31 ` Singh, Brijesh
2019-07-23 15:16 ` Singh, Brijesh
2019-11-25 19:07 ` Peter Gonda
2019-07-10 20:13 ` [PATCH v3 09/11] KVM: x86: Introduce KVM_GET_PAGE_ENC_BITMAP ioctl Singh, Brijesh
2019-08-29 16:26 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-08-29 16:41 ` Singh, Brijesh
2019-08-29 16:56 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-07-10 20:13 ` [PATCH v3 10/11] mm: x86: Invoke hypercall when page encryption status is changed Singh, Brijesh
2019-08-29 16:52 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-08-29 18:07 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-08-29 18:21 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-08-29 18:32 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2019-07-10 20:13 ` [PATCH v3 11/11] KVM: x86: Introduce KVM_SET_PAGE_ENC_BITMAP ioctl Singh, Brijesh
2019-11-15 1:22 ` Steve Rutherford
2019-11-15 1:39 ` Steve Rutherford
2019-07-12 15:52 ` [PATCH v3 00/11] Add AMD SEV guest live migration support Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2019-07-12 16:31 ` Singh, Brijesh
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