From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp-out1.suse.de (smtp-out1.suse.de [195.135.220.28]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 02A583481 for ; Sat, 31 Jul 2021 07:17:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from imap1.suse-dmz.suse.de (imap1.suse-dmz.suse.de [192.168.254.73]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature ECDSA (P-521) server-digest SHA512) (No client certificate requested) by smtp-out1.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DCE38221E7; Sat, 31 Jul 2021 07:17:39 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=suse.de; s=susede2_rsa; t=1627715859; h=from:from:reply-to:date:date:message-id:message-id:to:to:cc:cc: mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=kyM9js2aRHyfGQiZvaRI/san3KM6xq/gaboX810m66s=; b=lAxg8F6VD+4AnPsG/mMhP3TjLl40VG23Kmwg7lgnscQBVXujxipnB1sRvy5Fwphgzm4MTl QqLgOnsZRhK9HeWuIQ56QyuwQZemhPbKhqTsuyhMYUqkwt8qCMn0O9ZG91clmhv3fuJxJ0 LJjlecCWVAS8I36UubMgskseBux/bCA= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=ed25519-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=suse.de; s=susede2_ed25519; t=1627715859; h=from:from:reply-to:date:date:message-id:message-id:to:to:cc:cc: mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=kyM9js2aRHyfGQiZvaRI/san3KM6xq/gaboX810m66s=; b=Hynwo4vVVOPM1dP9PH0k9MPz4dgRUYk0yb4mOQgcejQs4gUNDFuPN/RU9Xx9dWthWdCdVJ dBCyAXx0G9H401CA== Received: from imap1.suse-dmz.suse.de (imap1.suse-dmz.suse.de [192.168.254.73]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature ECDSA (P-521) server-digest SHA512) (No client certificate requested) by imap1.suse-dmz.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0EF0D1368F; Sat, 31 Jul 2021 07:17:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dovecot-director2.suse.de ([192.168.254.65]) by imap1.suse-dmz.suse.de with ESMTPSA id jptYARP5BGF3OQAAGKfGzw (envelope-from ); Sat, 31 Jul 2021 07:17:39 +0000 Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2021 09:17:37 +0200 From: Joerg Roedel To: Sean Christopherson Cc: Joerg Roedel , x86@kernel.org, Eric Biederman , kexec@lists.infradead.org, hpa@zytor.com, Andy Lutomirski , Dave Hansen , Peter Zijlstra , Jiri Slaby , Dan Williams , Tom Lendacky , Juergen Gross , Kees Cook , David Rientjes , Cfir Cohen , Erdem Aktas , Masami Hiramatsu , Mike Stunes , Martin Radev , Arvind Sankar , linux-coco@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/12] x86/sev: Handle CLFLUSH MMIO events Message-ID: References: <20210721142015.1401-1-joro@8bytes.org> <20210721142015.1401-12-joro@8bytes.org> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-coco@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Hi Sean, On Fri, Jul 30, 2021 at 10:42:30PM +0000, Sean Christopherson wrote: > On Wed, Jul 21, 2021, Joerg Roedel wrote: > This wording can be misread as "the hypervisor is responsible for _all_ cache > management". Maybe just: > > /* > * Ignore CLFLUSHes - the hyperivsor is responsible for cache > * management of emulated MMIO. > */ Right, will update the comment, thanks. > Side topic, out of curisoity, what's mapping/accessing emulated MMIO as non-UC? The CLFLUSHes happen when the kexec'ed kernel maps the VGA framebuffer as unencrypted. Initially it is mapped encrypted and before re-mapping the kernel flushes the range from the caches. I have not investigated why this doesn't happen on the first boot, though. Regards, Joerg