Re: [RFC Part1 PATCH v3 02/17] x86/CPU/AMD: Add the Secure Encrypted Virtualization CPU feature

Borislav Petkov
2017-07-25T14:36:15Z

On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 09:29:40AM -0500, Tom Lendacky wrote:
> Yup, we can do something like that. I believe the only change that
> would be needed to your patch would be to move the IS_ENABLED() check
> to after the physical address space reduction check.

Yeah, I wasn't sure about that. The logic is that if BIOS has enabled
SME and thus reduction is in place, we need to update x86_phys_bits on
32-bit regardless, right?

But, come to think of it, that reduction won't have any effect since we
have 32-bit addresses and the reduction is above 32-bits, right? And
thus it is moot.

Or?

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