[RFC PATCH v1 07/28] x86: Do not encrypt memory areas if SEV is enabled

Brijesh Singh brijesh.singh at amd.com
Mon Aug 22 23:24:59 UTC 2016


From: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky at amd.com>

When running under SEV, some memory areas that were originally not
encrypted under SME are already encrypted. In these situations do not
attempt to encrypt them.

Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky at amd.com>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/head64.c |    4 ++--
 arch/x86/kernel/setup.c  |    7 ++++---
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c
index 358d7bc..4a15def 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ static void __init create_unencrypted_mapping(void *address, unsigned long size)
 	unsigned long physaddr = (unsigned long)address - __PAGE_OFFSET;
 	pmdval_t pmd_flags, pmd;
 
-	if (!sme_me_mask)
+	if (!sme_me_mask || sev_active)
 		return;
 
 	/* Clear the encryption mask from the early_pmd_flags */
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ static void __init __clear_mapping(unsigned long address)
 
 static void __init clear_mapping(void *address, unsigned long size)
 {
-	if (!sme_me_mask)
+	if (!sme_me_mask || sev_active)
 		return;
 
 	do {
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
index cec8a63..9c10383 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
@@ -380,10 +380,11 @@ static void __init reserve_initrd(void)
 
 	/*
 	 * This memory is marked encrypted by the kernel but the ramdisk
-	 * was loaded in the clear by the bootloader, so make sure that
-	 * the ramdisk image is encrypted.
+	 * was loaded in the clear by the bootloader (unless SEV is active),
+	 * so make sure that the ramdisk image is encrypted.
 	 */
-	sme_early_mem_enc(ramdisk_image, ramdisk_end - ramdisk_image);
+	if (!sev_active)
+		sme_early_mem_enc(ramdisk_image, ramdisk_end - ramdisk_image);
 
 	initrd_start = 0;
 



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