linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH kernel v3 3/3] x86/sev: Do not handle #VC for DR7 read/write

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Message-ID: <533c5c83-b68b-eff0-d36d-9963194ab844@amd.com>
Date:   Fri, 20 Jan 2023 21:23:48 +1100
From:   Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@....com>
To:     "Nikunj A. Dadhania" <nikunj@....com>
Cc:     kvm@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Yury Norov <yury.norov@...il.com>,
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        "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH kernel v3 3/3] x86/sev: Do not handle #VC for DR7
 read/write



On 20/1/23 16:12, Nikunj A. Dadhania wrote:
> On 20/01/23 08:40, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
>> With MSR_AMD64_SEV_DEBUG_SWAP enabled, the VM should not get #VC
>> events for DR7 read/write which it rather avoided.
>>
> 
> SNP guest feature negotiation patch is part of tip now: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/167414649850.4906.1693185384677559889.tip-bot2@tip-bot2/

Worth mentioning it is tip/x86/urgent (which does not have 
X86_FEATURE_NO_NESTED_DATA_BP), not tip/master (which has 
X86_FEATURE_NO_NESTED_DATA_BP).

> 
> MSR_AMD64_SNP_DEBUG_SWAP is already defined. As this requires guest side changes, please add MSR_AMD64_SNP_DEBUG_SWAP as part of SNP_FEATURES_PRESENT bit mask.

It is MSR_AMD64_SEV_DEBUG_SWAP (SEV, not SNP), it is an SEV-ES thing. 
Why is that feature negotiation SNP-only and not SEV?


-- 
Alexey