RE: [PATCH Part2 v6 04/49] x86/sev: set SYSCFG.MFMD

[Kalra, Ashish]

[AMD Official Use Only - General]

Hello Boris,

>> Subject: [PATCH Part2 v6 04/49] x86/sev: set SYSCFG.MFMD

>That subject title needs to be made human readable.
Ok.

>> SEV-SNP FW >= 1.51 requires that SYSCFG.MFMD must be set.

>Because?
This is a FW requirement.

>Also, commit message needs to be human-readable and not pseudocode.

>> @@ -2325,6 +2346,9 @@ static __init int __snp_rmptable_init(void)
>>  	/* Flush the caches to ensure that data is written before SNP is enabled. */
>>  	wbinvd_on_all_cpus();
>>  
>> +	/* MFDM must be enabled on all the CPUs prior to enabling SNP. */
>> +	on_each_cpu(mfdm_enable, NULL, 1);
>> +
>>  	/* Enable SNP on all CPUs. */
>>  	on_each_cpu(snp_enable, NULL, 1);

>No, not two IPI generating function calls - one and do everything in it.
>I.e., what Marc said.

Ok got that.

Thanks,
Ashish