[PATCH v2 08/12] x86/sev: Park APs on AP Jump Table with GHCB protocol version 2
Joerg Roedel
jroedel at suse.de
Thu Jan 27 01:01:31 PST 2022
On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 05:33:05PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 05:55:59PM +0200, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> > + "ljmpl *%0" : :
> > + "m" (real_mode_header->sev_real_ap_park_asm),
> > + "b" (sev_es_jump_table_pa >> 4));
>
> In any case, this asm needs comments: why those regs, why
> sev_es_jump_table_pa >> 4 in rbx (I found later in the patch why) and so
> on.
Turned out the jump_table_pa is not used in asm code anymore. It was a
left-over from a previous version of the patch, it is removed now.
> > +SYM_INNER_LABEL(sev_ap_park_paging_off, SYM_L_GLOBAL)
>
> Global symbol but used only in this file. .L-prefix then?
It needs to be a global symbol so the pa_ variant can be generated.
Regards,
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Jörg Rödel
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