From: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
To: Tycho Andersen <tycho@kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
x86@kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Ashish Kalra <ashish.kalra@amd.com>,
John Allen <john.allen@amd.com>,
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>,
Neeraj Upadhyay <Neeraj.Upadhyay@amd.com>,
Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kvijayab@amd.com>,
Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@amd.com>,
Nikunj A Dadhania <nikunj@amd.com>,
"Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@infradead.org>,
Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@amd.com>,
Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] x86/sev: Do not initialize SNP if missing CPUs
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2026 08:55:26 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <63535447-37a9-446b-961b-52f284479e8a@amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c88d7a24-1806-4ceb-9e0b-1a07ecf955ce@amd.com>
On 4/8/26 08:10, Tom Lendacky wrote:
> On 4/7/26 12:47, Tycho Andersen wrote:
>> From: "Tycho Andersen (AMD)" <tycho@kernel.org>
>>
>> The SEV firmware checks that the SNP enable bit is set on each CPU during
>> SNP initialization, and will fail if it is not. If there are some CPUs
>> offline, they will not run the setup functions, so SNP initialization will
>> always fail.
>>
>> Skip the IPIs in this case and return an error so that the CCP driver can
>> skip the SNP_INIT that will fail. Also print the CPU masks as a breadcrumb
>> so people can figure out what happened.
>>
>> Suggested-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
>> Signed-off-by: Tycho Andersen (AMD) <tycho@kernel.org>
>> ---
>
> Reviewed-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@gmail.com>
Ugh, that's not the right email address:
Reviewed-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
At least I spelled my name right...
>
>> + return ret;
>> }
>> EXPORT_SYMBOL_FOR_MODULES(snp_prepare, "ccp");
>>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-04-18 13:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-07 17:47 [PATCH v2 0/2] Skip SNP initialization if CPUs are offlined Tycho Andersen
2026-04-07 17:47 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] x86/sev: Do not initialize SNP if missing CPUs Tycho Andersen
2026-04-08 5:40 ` Nikunj A. Dadhania
2026-04-08 13:10 ` Tom Lendacky
2026-04-18 13:55 ` Tom Lendacky [this message]
2026-04-07 17:47 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] crypto/ccp: Skip SNP_INIT if preparation fails Tycho Andersen
2026-04-08 6:01 ` Nikunj A. Dadhania
2026-04-08 13:17 ` Tom Lendacky
2026-04-08 14:06 ` Tycho Andersen
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