Re: [PATCH Part1 RFC v4 05/36] x86/sev: Define the Linux specific guest termination reasons

From: Brijesh Singh
Date: Tue Aug 10 2021 - 10:59:51 EST




On 8/10/21 6:33 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
On Wed, Jul 07, 2021 at 01:14:35PM -0500, Brijesh Singh wrote:
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/sev-common.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/sev-common.h
index 23929a3010df..e75e29c05f59 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/sev-common.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/sev-common.h
@@ -63,9 +63,17 @@
(((((u64)reason_set) & GHCB_MSR_TERM_REASON_SET_MASK) << GHCB_MSR_TERM_REASON_SET_POS) | \
((((u64)reason_val) & GHCB_MSR_TERM_REASON_MASK) << GHCB_MSR_TERM_REASON_POS))
+/* Error code from reason set 0 */

... Error codes...

Noted.

+#define SEV_TERM_SET_GEN 0
#define GHCB_SEV_ES_GEN_REQ 0
#define GHCB_SEV_ES_PROT_UNSUPPORTED 1
#define GHCB_RESP_CODE(v) ((v) & GHCB_MSR_INFO_MASK)
+/* Linux specific reason codes (used with reason set 1) */

... Linux-specific ...

Noted.


+#define SEV_TERM_SET_LINUX 1

GHCB doc says:

"This document defines and owns reason code set 0x0"

Should it also say, reason code set 1 is allocated for Linux guest use?
I don't see why not...
> Tom?


If Tom is okay with it then maybe in next version of the GHCB doc can add this text.