Both the decompressor and the core kernel implement an early #VC handler,
which only deals with CPUID instructions, and full featured one, which can
handle any #VC exception.
The former communicates with the hypervisor using the MSR based protocol,
whereas the latter uses a shared GHCB page, which is configured a bit later
during the boot, when the kernel runs from its ordinary virtual mapping,
rather than the 1:1 mapping that the startup code uses.
Accessing this shared GHCB page from the core kernel's startup code is
problematic, because it involves converting the GHCB address provided by the
caller to a physical address. In the startup code, virtual to physical address
translations are problematic, given that the virtual address might be a 1:1
mapped address, and such translations should therefore be avoided.
This means that exposing startup code dealing with the GHCB to callers that
execute from the ordinary kernel virtual mapping should be avoided too. So
move all GHCB page based communication out of the startup code, now that all
communication occurring before the kernel virtual mapping is up relies on the
MSR protocol only.
As an exception, add a flag representing the need to apply the coherency
fix in order to avoid exporting CPUID* helpers because of the code
running too early for the *cpu_has* infrastructure.
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250828102202.1849035-29-ardb+git@google.com
Most of the SEV support code used to reside in a single C source file
that was included in two places: the core kernel, and the decompressor.
The code that is actually shared with the decompressor was moved into a
separate, shared source file under startup/, on the basis that the
decompressor also executes from the early 1:1 mapping of memory.
However, while the elaborate #VC handling and instruction decoding that
it involves is also performed by the decompressor, it does not actually
occur in the core kernel at early boot, and therefore, does not need to
be part of the confined early startup code.
So split off the #VC handling code and move it back into arch/x86/coco
where it came from, into another C source file that is included from
both the decompressor and the core kernel.
Code movement only - no functional change intended.
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Cc: Dionna Amalie Glaze <dionnaglaze@google.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Kevin Loughlin <kevinloughlin@google.com>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250504095230.2932860-31-ardb+git@google.com
As a first step towards disentangling the SEV #VC handling code -which
is shared between the decompressor and the core kernel- from the SEV
startup code, move the decompressor's copy of the instruction decoder
into a separate source file.
Code movement only - no functional change intended.
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Cc: Dionna Amalie Glaze <dionnaglaze@google.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Kevin Loughlin <kevinloughlin@google.com>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250504095230.2932860-30-ardb+git@google.com
Ard Biesheuvel