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authorPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2020-09-23 13:01:33 -0400
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2020-09-28 07:57:24 -0400
commit14e3dd8d256b7a7a281ac18a65e3c8cc9573ec88 (patch)
tree5a7679aa4808ffac99af60e170a44f1048f0af30 /arch/x86/kvm/svm
parent50085beee878e7c4e8ddbd3d634c0170589802e0 (diff)
KVM: SEV: shorten comments around sev_clflush_pages
Very similar content is present in four comments in sev.c. Unfortunately there are small differences that make it harder to place the comment in sev_clflush_pages itself, but at least we can make it more concise. Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kvm/svm')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c19
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c
index bb0e89c79a04..65e15c22bd3c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c
@@ -446,10 +446,8 @@ static int sev_launch_update_data(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_sev_cmd *argp)
}
/*
- * The LAUNCH_UPDATE command will perform in-place encryption of the
- * memory content (i.e it will write the same memory region with C=1).
- * It's possible that the cache may contain the data with C=0, i.e.,
- * unencrypted so invalidate it first.
+ * Flush (on non-coherent CPUs) before LAUNCH_UPDATE encrypts pages in
+ * place; the cache may contain the data that was written unencrypted.
*/
sev_clflush_pages(inpages, npages);
@@ -805,10 +803,9 @@ static int sev_dbg_crypt(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_sev_cmd *argp, bool dec)
}
/*
- * The DBG_{DE,EN}CRYPT commands will perform {dec,en}cryption of the
- * memory content (i.e it will write the same memory region with C=1).
- * It's possible that the cache may contain the data with C=0, i.e.,
- * unencrypted so invalidate it first.
+ * Flush (on non-coherent CPUs) before DBG_{DE,EN}CRYPT read or modify
+ * the pages; flush the destination too so that future accesses do not
+ * see stale data.
*/
sev_clflush_pages(src_p, 1);
sev_clflush_pages(dst_p, 1);
@@ -870,10 +867,8 @@ static int sev_launch_secret(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_sev_cmd *argp)
return PTR_ERR(pages);
/*
- * The LAUNCH_SECRET command will perform in-place encryption of the
- * memory content (i.e it will write the same memory region with C=1).
- * It's possible that the cache may contain the data with C=0, i.e.,
- * unencrypted so invalidate it first.
+ * Flush (on non-coherent CPUs) before LAUNCH_SECRET encrypts pages in
+ * place; the cache may contain the data that was written unencrypted.
*/
sev_clflush_pages(pages, n);