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Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2022 19:54:02 +0000
From: "Michael Kelley (LINUX)" <mikelley@...rosoft.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
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Subject: RE: [Patch v4 01/13] x86/ioapic: Gate decrypted mapping on
cc_platform_has() attribute
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de> Sent: Tuesday, December 6, 2022 11:23 AM
>
> On Thu, Dec 01, 2022 at 07:30:19PM -0800, Michael Kelley wrote:
> > Current code always maps the IO-APIC as shared (decrypted) in a
> > confidential VM. But Hyper-V guest VMs on AMD SEV-SNP with vTOM
> > enabled use a paravisor running in VMPL0 to emulate the IO-APIC.
> > In such a case, the IO-APIC must be accessed as private (encrypted).
>
> Lemme see I understand this correctly:
>
> the paravisor is emulating the IO-APIC in the lower range of the address
> space, under the vTOM which is accessed encrypted.
>
> That's why you need to access it encrypted in the guest.
>
> Close?
>
Exactly correct.
Michael
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