On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 04:27:47PM -0500, Brijesh Singh wrote:
> From: Tom Lendacky <[email protected]>
> 
> Provide support for Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV). This initial
> support defines a flag that is used by the kernel to determine if it is
> running with SEV active.
> 
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Brijesh Singh <[email protected]>
> ---
> 
> Hi Boris,
> 
> Similar to the sme_me_mask, sev_enabled must live in .data section otherwise 
> it
> will get zero'ed in clear_bss() and we will loose the value. I have 
> encountered
> this issue when booting SEV guest using qemu's -kernel option.

Ah, good catch.

> I have removed your R-b since was not sure if you are still okay with the 
> change.

Sure, looks good still.

Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>

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