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SubjectRe: [PATCH v5 06/15] x86/sev: Drop redundant and potentially misleading 'sev_enabled'
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On 22/04/21 04:11, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> Drop the sev_enabled flag and switch its one user over to sev_active().
> sev_enabled was made redundant with the introduction of sev_status in
> commit b57de6cd1639 ("x86/sev-es: Add SEV-ES Feature Detection").
> sev_enabled and sev_active() are guaranteed to be equivalent, as each is
> true iff 'sev_status & MSR_AMD64_SEV_ENABLED' is true, and are only ever
> written in tandem (ignoring compressed boot's version of sev_status).
>
> Removing sev_enabled avoids confusion over whether it refers to the guest
> or the host, and will also allow KVM to usurp "sev_enabled" for its own
> purposes.
>
> No functional change intended.
>
> Reviewed-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
> Reviewed-by: Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@amd.com>
> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>

Boris or another x86 maintainer, can you ack this small patch? We would
like to use sev_enabled as a static variable in KVM.

Paolo

> ---
> arch/x86/include/asm/mem_encrypt.h | 1 -
> arch/x86/mm/mem_encrypt.c | 12 +++++-------
> arch/x86/mm/mem_encrypt_identity.c | 1 -
> 3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/mem_encrypt.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/mem_encrypt.h
> index 31c4df123aa0..9c80c68d75b5 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/mem_encrypt.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/mem_encrypt.h
> @@ -20,7 +20,6 @@
>
> extern u64 sme_me_mask;
> extern u64 sev_status;
> -extern bool sev_enabled;
>
> void sme_encrypt_execute(unsigned long encrypted_kernel_vaddr,
> unsigned long decrypted_kernel_vaddr,
> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/mem_encrypt.c b/arch/x86/mm/mem_encrypt.c
> index 4b01f7dbaf30..be384d8d0543 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/mm/mem_encrypt.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/mem_encrypt.c
> @@ -44,8 +44,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(sme_me_mask);
> DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(sev_enable_key);
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sev_enable_key);
>
> -bool sev_enabled __section(".data");
> -
> /* Buffer used for early in-place encryption by BSP, no locking needed */
> static char sme_early_buffer[PAGE_SIZE] __initdata __aligned(PAGE_SIZE);
>
> @@ -373,15 +371,15 @@ int __init early_set_memory_encrypted(unsigned long vaddr, unsigned long size)
> * up under SME the trampoline area cannot be encrypted, whereas under SEV
> * the trampoline area must be encrypted.
> */
> -bool sme_active(void)
> -{
> - return sme_me_mask && !sev_enabled;
> -}
> -
> bool sev_active(void)
> {
> return sev_status & MSR_AMD64_SEV_ENABLED;
> }
> +
> +bool sme_active(void)
> +{
> + return sme_me_mask && !sev_active();
> +}
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sev_active);
>
> /* Needs to be called from non-instrumentable code */
> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/mem_encrypt_identity.c b/arch/x86/mm/mem_encrypt_identity.c
> index 6c5eb6f3f14f..0c2759b7f03a 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/mm/mem_encrypt_identity.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/mem_encrypt_identity.c
> @@ -545,7 +545,6 @@ void __init sme_enable(struct boot_params *bp)
>
> /* SEV state cannot be controlled by a command line option */
> sme_me_mask = me_mask;
> - sev_enabled = true;
> physical_mask &= ~sme_me_mask;
> return;
> }
>

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