From: Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@amd.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: brijesh.singh@amd.com, x86@kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
tglx@linutronix.de, jroedel@suse.de, thomas.lendacky@amd.com,
pbonzini@redhat.com, mingo@redhat.com, dave.hansen@intel.com,
rientjes@google.com, seanjc@google.com, peterz@infradead.org,
hpa@zytor.com, tony.luck@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH Part1 RFC v2 02/20] x86/sev: Save the negotiated GHCB version
Date: Wed, 12 May 2021 10:03:43 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ae227ce0-1ffe-aa54-4106-daaf423f376c@amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YJvmp3ELvej0ydnL@zn.tnic>
On 5/12/21 9:31 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 09:03:41AM -0500, Brijesh Singh wrote:
>> Version 2 of the spec adds bunch of NAEs, and several of them are
>> optional except the hyervisor features NAE. IMO, a guest should bump the
>> GHCB version only after it has implemented all the required NAEs from
>> the version 2. It may help during the git bisect of the guest kernel --
>> mainly when the hypervisor supports the higher version.
> Aha, so AFAICT, the version bump should happen in patch 3 which adds
> that HV features NAE - not in a separate one after that. The logic
> being, with the patch which adds the functionality needed, you mark the
> guest as supporting v2.
Sure, I will squash the patch 3 and 4 and will do the same for the
hypervisor series. thanks
-Brijesh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-12 15:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-30 12:15 [PATCH Part1 RFC v2 00/20] Add AMD Secure Nested Paging (SEV-SNP) Guest Support Brijesh Singh
2021-04-30 12:15 ` [PATCH Part1 RFC v2 01/20] x86/sev: Define the GHCB MSR protocol for AP reset hold Brijesh Singh
2021-04-30 12:15 ` [PATCH Part1 RFC v2 02/20] x86/sev: Save the negotiated GHCB version Brijesh Singh
2021-05-11 9:23 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-05-11 18:29 ` Brijesh Singh
2021-05-11 18:41 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-05-12 14:03 ` Brijesh Singh
2021-05-12 14:31 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-05-12 15:03 ` Brijesh Singh [this message]
2021-04-30 12:15 ` [PATCH Part1 RFC v2 03/20] x86/sev: Add support for hypervisor feature VMGEXIT Brijesh Singh
2021-05-11 10:01 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-05-11 18:53 ` Brijesh Singh
2021-05-17 14:40 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-04-30 12:16 ` [PATCH Part1 RFC v2 04/20] x86/sev: Increase the GHCB protocol version Brijesh Singh
2021-04-30 12:16 ` [PATCH Part1 RFC v2 05/20] x86/sev: Define SNP Page State Change VMGEXIT structure Brijesh Singh
2021-05-18 10:41 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-05-18 15:06 ` Brijesh Singh
2021-04-30 12:16 ` [PATCH Part1 RFC v2 06/20] x86/sev: Define SNP guest request NAE events Brijesh Singh
2021-05-18 10:45 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-05-18 13:42 ` Brijesh Singh
2021-05-18 13:54 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-05-18 14:13 ` Brijesh Singh
2021-04-30 12:16 ` [PATCH Part1 RFC v2 07/20] x86/sev: Define error codes for reason set 1 Brijesh Singh
2021-05-18 11:05 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-04-30 12:16 ` [PATCH Part1 RFC v2 08/20] x86/mm: Add sev_snp_active() helper Brijesh Singh
2021-05-18 18:11 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-05-19 17:28 ` Brijesh Singh
2021-04-30 12:16 ` [PATCH Part1 RFC v2 09/20] x86/sev: check SEV-SNP features support Brijesh Singh
2021-05-20 16:02 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-05-20 17:40 ` Brijesh Singh
2021-04-30 12:16 ` [PATCH Part1 RFC v2 10/20] x86/sev: Add a helper for the PVALIDATE instruction Brijesh Singh
2021-04-30 13:05 ` Brijesh Singh
2021-05-20 17:32 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-05-20 17:44 ` Brijesh Singh
2021-05-20 17:51 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-05-20 17:57 ` Brijesh Singh
2021-04-30 12:16 ` [PATCH Part1 RFC v2 11/20] x86/compressed: Add helper for validating pages in the decompression stage Brijesh Singh
2021-05-20 17:52 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-05-20 18:05 ` Brijesh Singh
2021-05-25 10:18 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-04-30 12:16 ` [PATCH Part1 RFC v2 12/20] x86/compressed: Register GHCB memory when SEV-SNP is active Brijesh Singh
2021-05-25 10:41 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-04-30 12:16 ` [PATCH Part1 RFC v2 13/20] x86/sev: " Brijesh Singh
2021-05-25 11:11 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-05-25 14:28 ` Brijesh Singh
2021-05-25 14:35 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-05-25 14:47 ` Brijesh Singh
2021-05-26 9:57 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-05-26 13:23 ` Brijesh Singh
2021-04-30 12:16 ` [PATCH Part1 RFC v2 14/20] x86/sev: Add helper for validating pages in early enc attribute changes Brijesh Singh
2021-05-26 10:39 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-05-26 13:34 ` Brijesh Singh
2021-04-30 12:16 ` [PATCH Part1 RFC v2 15/20] x86/kernel: Make the bss.decrypted section shared in RMP table Brijesh Singh
2021-04-30 12:16 ` [PATCH Part1 RFC v2 16/20] x86/kernel: Validate rom memory before accessing when SEV-SNP is active Brijesh Singh
2021-05-27 11:49 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-05-27 12:12 ` Brijesh Singh
2021-05-27 12:23 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-05-27 12:56 ` Brijesh Singh
2021-04-30 12:16 ` [PATCH Part1 RFC v2 17/20] x86/mm: Add support to validate memory when changing C-bit Brijesh Singh
2021-04-30 12:16 ` [PATCH Part1 RFC v2 18/20] x86/boot: Add Confidential Computing address to setup_header Brijesh Singh
2021-04-30 12:16 ` [PATCH Part1 RFC v2 19/20] x86/sev: Register SNP guest request platform device Brijesh Singh
2021-04-30 12:16 ` [PATCH Part1 RFC v2 20/20] virt: Add SEV-SNP guest driver Brijesh Singh
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