Thread (86 messages) 86 messages, 6 authors, 2021-08-23

Re: [PATCH Part1 RFC v4 20/36] x86/sev: Use SEV-SNP AP creation to start secondary CPUs

From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Date: 2021-08-18 08:39:47
Also in: linux-coco, linux-crypto, linux-efi, linux-mm, lkml, platform-driver-x86

On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 05:13:54PM -0500, Tom Lendacky wrote:
Well, yes and no. It really is just setting or clearing the VMSA page
attribute. It isn't trying to update permissions for the lower VMPLs, so I
didn't want to mislabel it as a general rmpadjust function. But it's a
simple enough thing to change and if multiple VMPL levels are ever
supported it can be evaluated at that time.
You got it - when we need more RMPADJUST functionality, then that should
be the function that gets the beefing up.

:-)

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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