Re: [RFC PATCH V3 01/11] x86/HV: Initialize GHCB page in Isolation VM

From: Joerg Roedel
Date: Wed Jun 09 2021 - 08:38:42 EST


On Sun, May 30, 2021 at 11:06:18AM -0400, Tianyu Lan wrote:
> From: Tianyu Lan <Tianyu.Lan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Hyper-V exposes GHCB page via SEV ES GHCB MSR for SNP guest
> to communicate with hypervisor. Map GHCB page for all
> cpus to read/write MSR register and submit hvcall request
> via GHCB.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tianyu Lan <Tianyu.Lan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/hyperv/hv_init.c | 60 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
> arch/x86/include/asm/mshyperv.h | 2 ++
> include/asm-generic/mshyperv.h | 2 ++
> 3 files changed, 60 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/hyperv/hv_init.c b/arch/x86/hyperv/hv_init.c
> index bb0ae4b5c00f..dc74d01cb859 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/hyperv/hv_init.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/hyperv/hv_init.c
> @@ -60,6 +60,9 @@ static int hv_cpu_init(unsigned int cpu)
> struct hv_vp_assist_page **hvp = &hv_vp_assist_page[smp_processor_id()];
> void **input_arg;
> struct page *pg;
> + u64 ghcb_gpa;
> + void *ghcb_va;
> + void **ghcb_base;

Any reason you can't reuse the SEV-ES support code in the Linux kernel?
It already has code to setup GHCBs for all vCPUs.

I see that you don't need #VC handling in your SNP VMs because of the
paravisor running underneath it, but just re-using the GHCB setup code
shouldn't be too hard.

Regards,

Joerg