[PATCH v6 09/14] x86: Secure Launch SMP bringup support

Ross Philipson ross.philipson at oracle.com
Fri May 5 11:59:57 PDT 2023


On 5/5/23 13:54, Simon Horman wrote:
> On Thu, May 04, 2023 at 02:50:18PM +0000, Ross Philipson wrote:
>> On Intel, the APs are left in a well documented state after TXT performs
>> the late launch. Specifically they cannot have #INIT asserted on them so
>> a standard startup via INIT/SIPI/SIPI cannot be performed. Instead the
>> early SL stub code parked the APs in a pause/jmp loop waiting for an NMI.
>> The modified SMP boot code is called for the Secure Launch case. The
>> jump address for the RM piggy entry point is fixed up in the jump where
>> the APs are waiting and an NMI IPI is sent to the AP. The AP vectors to
>> the Secure Launch entry point in the RM piggy which mimics what the real
>> mode code would do then jumps to the standard RM piggy protected mode
>> entry point.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ross Philipson <ross.philipson at oracle.com>
> 
> Hi Ross,
> 
> just one minor nit on this one.

Will fix, thanks.
Ross

> 
>>   /*
>>    * NOTE - on most systems this is a PHYSICAL apic ID, but on multiquad
>>    * (ie clustered apic addressing mode), this is a LOGICAL apic ID.
>> @@ -1132,6 +1210,13 @@ static int do_boot_cpu(int apicid, int cpu, struct task_struct *idle,
>>   	cpumask_clear_cpu(cpu, cpu_initialized_mask);
>>   	smp_mb();
>>   
>> +	/* With Intel TXT, the AP startup is totally different */
>> +	if ((slaunch_get_flags() & (SL_FLAG_ACTIVE|SL_FLAG_ARCH_TXT)) ==
> 
> nit: spaces around '|'
> 
>> +	   (SL_FLAG_ACTIVE|SL_FLAG_ARCH_TXT)) {
>> +		boot_error = slaunch_wakeup_cpu_from_txt(cpu, apicid);
>> +		goto txt_wake;
>> +	}




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