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Commit 34ff6590 authored by Tom Lendacky's avatar Tom Lendacky Committed by Borislav Petkov (AMD)
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x86/sev: Use kernel provided SVSM Calling Areas



The SVSM Calling Area (CA) is used to communicate between Linux and the
SVSM. Since the firmware supplied CA for the BSP is likely to be in
reserved memory, switch off that CA to a kernel provided CA so that access
and use of the CA is available during boot. The CA switch is done using
the SVSM core protocol SVSM_CORE_REMAP_CA call.

An SVSM call is executed by filling out the SVSM CA and setting the proper
register state as documented by the SVSM protocol. The SVSM is invoked by
by requesting the hypervisor to run VMPL0.

Once it is safe to allocate/reserve memory, allocate a CA for each CPU.
After allocating the new CAs, the BSP will switch from the boot CA to the
per-CPU CA. The CA for an AP is identified to the SVSM when creating the
VMSA in preparation for booting the AP.

  [ bp: Heavily simplify svsm_issue_call() asm, other touchups. ]

Signed-off-by: default avatarTom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/fa8021130bcc3bcf14d722a25548cb0cdf325456.1717600736.git.thomas.lendacky@amd.com
parent 878e70db
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