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Introduce a vmware_hypercall family of functions. It is a common implementation
to be used by the VMware guest code and virtual device drivers in architecture
independent manner.
The API consists of vmware_hypercallX and vmware_hypercall_hb_{out,in}
set of functions analogous to KVM's hypercall API. Architecture-specific
implementation is hidden inside.
It will simplify future enhancements in VMware hypercalls such as SEV-ES and
TDX related changes without needs to modify a caller in device drivers code.
Current implementation extends an idea from
bac7b4e843 ("x86/vmware: Update platform detection code for VMCALL/VMMCALL hypercalls")
to have a slow, but safe path vmware_hypercall_slow() earlier during the boot
when alternatives are not yet applied. The code inherits VMWARE_CMD logic from
the commit mentioned above.
Move common macros from vmware.c to vmware.h.
[ bp: Fold in a fix:
https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240625083348.2299-1-alexey.makhalov@broadcom.com ]
Signed-off-by: Alexey Makhalov <alexey.makhalov@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240613191650.9913-2-alexey.makhalov@broadcom.com
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