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* [PATCH v3 0/2] x86: SME: Kexec/kdump memory loading fix
@ 2019-06-19 18:40 Lendacky, Thomas
  2019-06-19 18:40 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] x86/mm: Identify the end of the kernel area to be reserved Lendacky, Thomas
  2019-06-19 18:40 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] x86/mm: Create a workarea in the kernel for SME early encryption Lendacky, Thomas
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 32+ messages in thread
From: Lendacky, Thomas @ 2019-06-19 18:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel, x86
  Cc: Thomas Gleixner, Ingo Molnar, Borislav Petkov, Dave Hansen,
	Andy Lutomirski, Peter Zijlstra, Lianbo Jiang, Baoquan He

This series addresses an issue related to kexec/kdump when SME is active.
The SME support uses a workarea located after the end of the kernel to
perform "in-place" encryption of the kernel. When kexec/kdump is used, it
is possible that some other data used by kexec/kdump could be in this area
of memory which would cause the kexec/kdump of the kernel to fail.

Create a workarea section for use by SME in vmlinux.lds.S that is
positioned after "_end", so that the memory it occupies will be reclaimed
after its use during boot. Since it is part of the kernel image, there is
no worry now that kexec/kdump will place data in the SME workarea when
installing the kexec/kdump kernel. As part of this fix, clarify what
occupied kernel memory is reserved and what parts of the kernel memory are
discarded.

The following patches are included:
- Identify and document what parts of the kernel image are reserved
  (saved) and what is discarded.
- Create a new section that lives outside of the kernel proper, so that it
  will be reclaimed as available memory during boot, thus allowing it to
  be used as a workarea by SME for kernel in-place encryption during early
  boot..

This patch series is based on tip/master.

---

Changes from v2:
- Grammar fixes
- A more generic naming of the scratch/workarea section to indicate it
  is not restricted to SME usage

Changes from v1:
- Clarify how and where the kernel sections/memory is reserved.
- Add an explicit symbol, __end_of_kernel_reserve, for reserving the
  kernel memory rather than using __bss_stop.


Tom Lendacky (2):
  x86/mm: Identify the end of the kernel area to be reserved
  x86/mm: Create a workarea in the kernel for SME early encryption

 arch/x86/include/asm/sections.h    |  2 ++
 arch/x86/kernel/setup.c            |  8 ++++++-
 arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S      | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 arch/x86/mm/mem_encrypt_identity.c | 22 +++++++++++++++++--
 4 files changed, 62 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

-- 
2.17.1


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2019-06-19 18:40 [PATCH v3 0/2] x86: SME: Kexec/kdump memory loading fix Lendacky, Thomas
2019-06-19 18:40 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] x86/mm: Identify the end of the kernel area to be reserved Lendacky, Thomas
2019-06-20  9:58   ` [tip:x86/kdump] " tip-bot for Thomas Lendacky
2019-07-13 14:59   ` [PATCH v3 1/2] " Mike Lothian
2019-07-14 10:16     ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-07-14 10:27       ` Mike Lothian
2019-07-15  8:12         ` Thomas Gleixner
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2019-07-15  9:25             ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-07-15 10:35               ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-07-15 20:16                 ` H.J. Lu
2019-07-23 13:05                   ` Greg KH
2019-07-23 13:31                     ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-07-23 13:44                       ` Greg KH
2019-07-24 15:34                         ` Greg KH
2019-07-24 15:49                           ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-07-24 15:57                             ` Greg KH
2019-07-24 16:03                               ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-07-24 16:16                                 ` Greg KH
2019-07-24 20:02                                   ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-07-24 20:20                                     ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-07-25  6:24                                       ` Greg KH
2019-08-14 11:09                                         ` Mike Lothian
2019-08-19 12:53                                           ` Mike Lothian
2019-08-19 13:08                                             ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-08-19 13:21                                               ` Mike Lothian
2019-08-19 13:31                                                 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-08-20 12:46                                                   ` Mike Lothian
2019-07-24 16:22                               ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-07-24 16:01                             ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-07-23 13:43                     ` Greg KH
2019-06-19 18:40 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] x86/mm: Create a workarea in the kernel for SME early encryption Lendacky, Thomas
2019-06-20  9:58   ` [tip:x86/kdump] " tip-bot for Thomas Lendacky

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