linux-kernel - Re: [Part2 PATCH v6 13/38] crypto: ccp: Add Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) command support

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Date:   Fri, 27 Oct 2017 22:27:07 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@....com>
Cc:     kvm@...r.kernel.org, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        Gary Hook <gary.hook@....com>,
        Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@....com>,
        linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Part2 PATCH v6 13/38] crypto: ccp: Add Secure Encrypted
 Virtualization (SEV) command support

On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 03:25:24PM -0500, Brijesh Singh wrote:
> Yep, we are doing state transition only when we really need to. At least
> so far I have tried to avoid making any unnecessary state transitions.

So change all those which do INIT -> CMD -> SHUTDOWN to do only the
command as the INIT state is the default state, AFAIU it.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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