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From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
To: Jack Wang <jinpu.wang@ionos.com>
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, sashal@kernel.org,
	stable@vger.kernel.org,  dmitrii.omelchenko@cloud.ionos.com,
	Ashish Kalra <ashish.kalra@amd.com>,
	 Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
	 Jack Wang <jinpu.wang@cloud.ionos.com>
Subject: Re: [stable-6.12 2/4] KVM: SVM: Add support to initialize SEV/SNP functionality in KVM
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2026 07:40:50 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <an8o8j3h020zxAOO@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260814100652.225499-3-jinpu.wang@ionos.com>

On Fri, Aug 14, 2026, Jack Wang wrote:
> From: Ashish Kalra <ashish.kalra@amd.com>
> 
> commit 6f1d5a3513c2370bbd6115dd430906bc2f4bdc53 upstream.
> 
> Move platform initialization of SEV/SNP from CCP driver probe time to
> KVM module load time so that KVM can do SEV/SNP platform initialization
> explicitly if it actually wants to use SEV/SNP functionality.
> 
> Add support for KVM to explicitly call into the CCP driver at load time
> to initialize SEV/SNP. If required, this behavior can be altered with KVM
> module parameters to not do SEV/SNP platform initialization at module load
> time. Additionally, a corresponding SEV/SNP platform shutdown is invoked
> during KVM module unload time.
> 
> Continue to support SEV deferred initialization as the user may have the
> file containing SEV persistent data for SEV INIT_EX available only later
> after module load/init.
> 
> Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
> Reviewed-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ashish Kalra <ashish.kalra@amd.com>
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
> Signed-off-by: Jack Wang <jinpu.wang@cloud.ionos.com>
> ---

Acked-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>

  reply	other threads:[~2026-08-14 14:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-08-14 10:02 [PATCH 6.12.y 0/4] crypto: ccp, KVM: SVM - missing SEV/SNP platform-init dependency + 2 bugfixes Jack Wang
2026-08-14 10:02 ` [stable-6.12 1/4] crypto: ccp - Add new SEV/SNP platform shutdown API Jack Wang
2026-08-14 10:02 ` [stable-6.12 2/4] KVM: SVM: Add support to initialize SEV/SNP functionality in KVM Jack Wang
2026-08-14 14:40   ` Sean Christopherson [this message]
2026-08-14 10:02 ` [stable-6.12 3/4] crypto: ccp - Fix checks for SNP_VLEK_LOAD input buffer length Jack Wang
2026-08-14 10:02 ` [stable-6.12 4/4] crypto: ccp - Abort doing SEV INIT if SNP INIT fails Jack Wang
2026-08-15  2:33 ` [PATCH 6.12.y 0/4] crypto: ccp, KVM: SVM - missing SEV/SNP platform-init dependency + 2 bugfixes Sasha Levin
2026-08-17  4:51   ` Jinpu Wang
2026-08-17  5:00     ` Greg KH
2026-08-17  5:22       ` Jinpu Wang
2026-08-17  5:34         ` Greg KH

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