On Wed, Jan 04, 2023 at 12:13:09PM -0600, Tom Lendacky wrote:
> On 9/30/22 10:14, Tom Lendacky wrote:
> > This patch series fixes up and tries to remove some confusion around the
> > SEV reduced-phys-bits parameter.
> > 
> > Based on the "AMD64 Architecture Programmer's Manual Volume 2: System
> > Programming", section "15.34.6 Page Table Support" [1], a guest should
> > only ever see a maximum of 1 bit of physical address space reduction.
> > 
> > - Update the documentation, to change the default value from 5 to 1.
> > - Update the validation of the parameter to ensure the parameter value
> >    is within the range of the CPUID field that it is reported in. To allow
> >    for backwards compatibility, especially to support the previously
> >    documented value of 5, allow the full range of values from 1 to 63
> >    (0 was never allowed).
> > - Update the setting of CPUID 0x8000001F_EBX to limit the values to the
> >    field width that they are setting as an additional safeguard.
> > 
> > [1] https://www.amd.com/system/files/TechDocs/24593.pdf
> 
> Ping, any concerns with this series?

Looks like you got postive review from David in Oct, so this
needs one of the x86 maintainers to queue the series.

> > Tom Lendacky (4):
> >    qapi, i386/sev: Change the reduced-phys-bits value from 5 to 1
> >    qemu-options.hx: Update the reduced-phys-bits documentation
> >    i386/sev: Update checks and information related to reduced-phys-bits
> >    i386/cpu: Update how the EBX register of CPUID 0x8000001F is set
> > 
> >   qapi/misc-target.json |  2 +-
> >   qemu-options.hx       |  4 ++--
> >   target/i386/cpu.c     |  4 ++--
> >   target/i386/sev.c     | 17 ++++++++++++++---
> >   4 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> > 
> 

With regards,
Daniel
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