Re: [RFC PATCH v1] powerpc/prom_init: disable XIVE in Secure VM.

On Wed, Mar 04, 2020 at 04:56:09PM +0100, Cédric Le Goater wrote:

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(1) applied the patch which shares the EQ-page with the hypervisor.
(2) set "kernel_irqchip=off"
(3) set "ic-mode=xive"

you don't have to set the interrupt mode. xive should be negotiated
by default.

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(4) set "svm=on" on the kernel command line.
(5) no changes to the hypervisor and ultravisor.

And Boom it works!.   So you were right.

Excellent.
 

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I am sending out the patch for (1) above ASAP.

Next step, could you please try to do the same with the TIMA and ESB pfn ?
and use KVM.

I'm a bit confused by this.  Aren't the TIMA and ESB pages essentially
IO pages, rather than memory pages from the guest's point of view?  I
assume only memory pages are protected with PEF - I can't even really
see what protecting an IO page would even mean.

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