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Re: [RFC PATCH v2 16/32] x86: kvm: Provide support to create Guest and HV shared per-CPU variables

From Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [RFC PATCH v2 16/32] x86: kvm: Provide support to create Guest and HV shared per-CPU variables
Date 2017-03-29 17:40 +0200
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On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 05:21:13PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> The GHCB would have to be allocated much earlier, possibly even by
> firmware depending on how things will be designed.

How about a statically allocated page like we do with the early
pagetable pages in head_64.S?

> I think it's premature to consider SEV-ES requirements.

My only concern is not to have to redo a lot when SEV-ES gets enabled.
So it would be prudent to design with SEV-ES in the back of our minds.

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Re: [RFC PATCH v2 16/32] x86: kvm: Provide support to create Guest  and HV shared per-CPU variables Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> - 2017-03-28 20:40 +0200
  Re: [RFC PATCH v2 16/32] x86: kvm: Provide support to create Guest  and HV shared per-CPU variables Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2017-03-29 17:30 +0200
    Re: [RFC PATCH v2 16/32] x86: kvm: Provide support to create Guest  and HV shared per-CPU variables Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> - 2017-03-29 17:40 +0200

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