Re: [PATCH Part1 RFC v2 02/20] x86/sev: Save the negotiated GHCB version

From: Brijesh Singh
Date: Wed May 12 2021 - 11:11:02 EST



On 5/12/21 9:31 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 09:03:41AM -0500, Brijesh Singh wrote:
>> Version 2 of the spec adds bunch of NAEs, and several of them are
>> optional except the hyervisor features NAE. IMO, a guest should bump the
>> GHCB version only after it has implemented all the required NAEs from
>> the version 2. It may help during the git bisect of the guest kernel --
>> mainly when the hypervisor supports the higher version.
> Aha, so AFAICT, the version bump should happen in patch 3 which adds
> that HV features NAE - not in a separate one after that. The logic
> being, with the patch which adds the functionality needed, you mark the
> guest as supporting v2.

Sure, I will squash the patch 3 and 4 and will do the same for the
hypervisor series. thanks

-Brijesh