Re: [PATCH] x86/boot: Fix kexec booting failure after SEV early boot support

From: Baoquan He
Date: Wed Sep 26 2018 - 09:21:28 EST


On 09/26/18 at 01:01pm, Lendacky, Thomas wrote:
> On 09/26/2018 06:22 AM, Baoquan He wrote:
> > On 09/26/18 at 03:32pm, Baoquan He wrote:
> >> On 09/25/18 at 07:26pm, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> >>> IINM, the problem can be addressed in a simpler way by getting rid of
> >>> enc_bit and thus getting rid of the need to do relative addressing of
> >>> anything and simply doing the whole dance of figuring out the C-bit each
> >>> time. It probably wouldn't be even measurable...
> >>
> >> Couldn't agree more.
> >>
> >> Obviously enc_bit is redundent here. We only check eax each time,
> >> removing it can fix the RIP-relative addressing issue in kexec.
> >
> > OK, in distros CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT=y is set by default usually.
> > enc_bit can save once in normal boot, then fetch and skip the cpuid
> > detection in initialize_identity_maps(). However this only speeds up in
> > amd system with SME, on intel cpu and amd cpu w/o sme, it still needs to
> > do cpuid twice. Removing it should be not measurable as Boris said.
> > Not sure if Tom has other concern.
>
> No concern from me. The original version of the patch did not cache the
> value, that was added based on the patch series feedback. So, if there
> is no concern about executing some extra CPUID/RDMSR instructions, then
> it would certainly simplify the code quite a bit.

OK, thanks for confirming this, Tom.

Then, maybe Kairui can repost below code with formal patch log after
testing. I have tested on a intel machine with 48G memory, and
CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT=y, it works well. Maybe add Boris's Suggested-By,
and CC me.

Thanks
Baoquan

> >>
> >> diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/mem_encrypt.S b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/mem_encrypt.S
> >> index eaa843a52907..0b60eb867d25 100644
> >> --- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/mem_encrypt.S
> >> +++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/mem_encrypt.S
> >> @@ -27,19 +27,6 @@ ENTRY(get_sev_encryption_bit)
> >> push %edx
> >> push %edi
> >>
> >> - /*
> >> - * RIP-relative addressing is needed to access the encryption bit
> >> - * variable. Since we are running in 32-bit mode we need this call/pop
> >> - * sequence to get the proper relative addressing.
> >> - */
> >> - call 1f
> >> -1: popl %edi
> >> - subl $1b, %edi
> >> -
> >> - movl enc_bit(%edi), %eax
> >> - cmpl $0, %eax
> >> - jge .Lsev_exit
> >> -
> >> /* Check if running under a hypervisor */
> >> movl $1, %eax
> >> cpuid
> >> @@ -69,12 +56,10 @@ ENTRY(get_sev_encryption_bit)
> >>
> >> movl %ebx, %eax
> >> andl $0x3f, %eax /* Return the encryption bit location */
> >> - movl %eax, enc_bit(%edi)
> >> jmp .Lsev_exit
> >>
> >> .Lno_sev:
> >> xor %eax, %eax
> >> - movl %eax, enc_bit(%edi)
> >>
> >> .Lsev_exit:
> >> pop %edi
> >> @@ -113,9 +98,6 @@ ENTRY(set_sev_encryption_mask)
> >> ENDPROC(set_sev_encryption_mask)
> >>
> >> .data
> >> -enc_bit:
> >> - .int 0xffffffff
> >> -
> >> #ifdef CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT
> >> .balign 8
> >> GLOBAL(sme_me_mask)