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From: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
To: Vasant Karasulli <vkarasulli@suse.de>
Cc: Vasant k <vsntk18@gmail.com>,
	x86@kernel.org, joro@8bytes.org, cfir@google.com,
	dan.j.williams@intel.com, dave.hansen@linux.intel.com,
	ebiederm@xmission.com, erdemaktas@google.com, hpa@zytor.com,
	jgross@suse.com, jslaby@suse.cz, keescook@chromium.org,
	kexec@lists.infradead.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-coco@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	luto@kernel.org, martin.b.radev@gmail.com, mhiramat@kernel.org,
	mstunes@vmware.com, nivedita@alum.mit.edu, peterz@infradead.org,
	rientjes@google.com, seanjc@google.com, stable@vger.kernel.org,
	virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/9] x86/sev: KEXEC/KDUMP support for SEV-ES guests
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2024 11:13:54 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a82d24f8-d185-47a7-91df-4706658843e5@amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZfBx2ewmB06qQajs@vasant-suse>

On 3/12/24 10:16, Vasant Karasulli wrote:
> On Di 12-03-24 09:04:13, Tom Lendacky wrote:
>> On 3/11/24 15:32, Vasant k wrote:
>>> Hi Tom,
>>>
>>>          Right,  it just escaped my mind that the SNP uses the secrets page
>>> to hand over APs to the next stage.  I will correct that in the next
>>
>> Not quite... The MADT table lists the APs and the GHCB AP Create NAE event
>> is used to start the APs.
> 
> Alright. So AP Jump Table is not used like in the case of SEV-ES. Thanks,

Right. It can be, but we don't use that method in Linux.

Thanks,
Tom

> I will keep the changes in the patch set exclusively for SEV-ES then.
> 
> - Vasant

      reply	other threads:[~2024-03-12 16:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-03-11 16:17 [PATCH v4 0/9] x86/sev: KEXEC/KDUMP support for SEV-ES guests Vasant Karasulli
2024-03-11 16:17 ` [PATCH v4 1/9] x86/kexec/64: Disable kexec when SEV-ES is active Vasant Karasulli
2024-03-11 16:17 ` [PATCH v4 2/9] x86/sev: Save and print negotiated GHCB protocol version Vasant Karasulli
2024-03-11 16:17 ` [PATCH v4 3/9] x86/sev: Set GHCB data structure version Vasant Karasulli
2024-03-11 16:17 ` [PATCH v4 4/9] x86/sev: Setup code to park APs in the AP Jump Table Vasant Karasulli
2024-03-11 16:17 ` [PATCH v4 5/9] x86/sev: Park APs on AP Jump Table with GHCB protocol version 2 Vasant Karasulli
2024-03-11 16:17 ` [PATCH v4 6/9] x86/sev: Use AP Jump Table blob to stop CPU Vasant Karasulli
2024-03-11 16:17 ` [PATCH v4 7/9] x86/sev: Add MMIO handling support to boot/compressed/ code Vasant Karasulli
2024-03-11 16:17 ` [PATCH v4 8/9] x86/sev: Handle CLFLUSH MMIO events Vasant Karasulli
2024-03-11 16:17 ` [PATCH v4 9/9] x86/kexec/64: Support kexec under SEV-ES with AP Jump Table Blob Vasant Karasulli
2024-03-11 19:19 ` [PATCH v4 0/9] x86/sev: KEXEC/KDUMP support for SEV-ES guests Tom Lendacky
     [not found]   ` <CAF2zH5qZKEmECy=9vG4sLmdDt5k7nC=MwjKvJLyVfPyFzt+0hA@mail.gmail.com>
2024-03-12 14:04     ` Tom Lendacky
2024-03-12 15:16       ` Vasant Karasulli
2024-03-12 16:13         ` Tom Lendacky [this message]

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