The following commit

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x86/kvmclock: Remove memblock dependency

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=368a540e0232ad446931f5a4e8a5e06f69f21343
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introduced SEV guest regression.

The guest physical address holding the wall_clock and hv_clock_boot
are shared with the hypervisor must be mapped with C=0 when SEV
is active. To clear the C-bit we use  kernel_physical_mapping_init() to
split the large pages. The above commit moved the kvmclock initialization
very early and kernel_physical_mapping_init() fails to allocate memory
while spliting the large page.

To solve it, we add a special .data..decrypted section, this section can be
used to hold the shared variables. Early boot code maps this section with
C=0. The section is pmd aligned and sized to avoid the need to split the pages.
Caller can use __decrypted attribute to add the variables in .data..decrypted
section. 

Cc: Tom Lendacky <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]>
Cc: Sean Christopherson <[email protected]>
Cc: "Radim Krčmář" <[email protected]>

Changes since v1:
 - move the logic to re-arrange mapping in new patch
 - move the definition of __start_data_* in mem_encrypt.h
 - map the workarea buffer as encrypted when SEV is enabled
 - enhance the sme_populate_pgd to update the pte/pmd flags when mapping exist

Brijesh Singh (3):
  x86/mm: Restructure sme_encrypt_kernel()
  x86/mm: add .data..decrypted section to hold shared variables
  x86/kvm: use __decrypted attribute when declaring shared variables

 arch/x86/include/asm/mem_encrypt.h |   6 +
 arch/x86/kernel/head64.c           |   9 ++
 arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c         |  30 ++++-
 arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S      |  17 +++
 arch/x86/mm/mem_encrypt_identity.c | 232 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
 5 files changed, 227 insertions(+), 67 deletions(-)

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2.7.4

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