[PATCH v13 01/19] Documentation/x86: Secure Launch kernel documentation

ross.philipson at oracle.com ross.philipson at oracle.com
Fri Apr 11 12:41:23 PDT 2025


On 4/10/25 10:50 PM, ALOK TIWARI wrote:
> 
> 
> On 11-04-2025 02:11, Ross Philipson wrote:
>> +
>> + - Entry from the dynamic launch jumps to the SL stub.
>> + - SL stub fixes up the world on the BSP.
>> + - For TXT, SL stub wakes the APs, fixes up their worlds.
>> + - For TXT, APs are left halted using MONITOR/MWAIT intructions.
> 
> typo intructions -> instruction

Thanks for the review. They are two separate instructions so is this 
really incorrect?

Thanks
Ross

>> + - SL stub jumps to startup_32.
>> + - SL main does validation of buffers and memory locations. It sets
>> +   the boot parameter loadflag value SLAUNCH_FLAG to inform the main
>> +   kernel that a Secure Launch was done.
>> + - SL main locates the TPM event log and writes the measurements of
> 
> Thanks,
> Alok




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