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Commit b3f0907c authored by Brijesh Singh's avatar Brijesh Singh Committed by Thomas Gleixner
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x86/mm: Add .bss..decrypted section to hold shared variables



kvmclock defines few static variables which are shared with the
hypervisor during the kvmclock initialization.

When SEV is active, memory is encrypted with a guest-specific key, and
if the guest OS wants to share the memory region with the hypervisor
then it must clear the C-bit before sharing it.

Currently, we use kernel_physical_mapping_init() to split large pages
before clearing the C-bit on shared pages. But it fails when called from
the kvmclock initialization (mainly because the memblock allocator is
not ready that early during boot).

Add a __bss_decrypted section attribute which can be used when defining
such shared variable. The so-defined variables will be placed in the
.bss..decrypted section. This section will be mapped with C=0 early
during boot.

The .bss..decrypted section has a big chunk of memory that may be unused
when memory encryption is not active, free it when memory encryption is
not active.

Suggested-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBrijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Cc: Radim Krčmář<rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1536932759-12905-2-git-send-email-brijesh.singh@amd.com
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