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Date:   Fri, 19 Jul 2019 12:47:03 -0300
From:   Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     lijiang <lijiang@...hat.com>
Cc:     "Lendacky\, Thomas" <Thomas.Lendacky@....com>,
        "x86\@kernel.org" <x86@...nel.org>,
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        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
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        Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
        Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
        Halil Pasic <pasic@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Mike Anderson <andmike@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Ram Pai <linuxram@...ibm.com>, Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 5/6] fs/core/vmcore: Move sev_active() reference to x86 arch code


Hello Lianbo,

lijiang <lijiang@...hat.com> writes:

> 在 2019年07月19日 01:47, Lendacky, Thomas 写道:
>> On 7/17/19 10:28 PM, Thiago Jung Bauermann wrote:
>>> Secure Encrypted Virtualization is an x86-specific feature, so it shouldn't
>>> appear in generic kernel code because it forces non-x86 architectures to
>>> define the sev_active() function, which doesn't make a lot of sense.
>>>
>>> To solve this problem, add an x86 elfcorehdr_read() function to override
>>> the generic weak implementation. To do that, it's necessary to make
>>> read_from_oldmem() public so that it can be used outside of vmcore.c.
>>>
>>> Also, remove the export for sev_active() since it's only used in files that
>>> won't be built as modules.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@...ux.ibm.com>
>> 
>> Adding Lianbo and Baoquan, who recently worked on this, for their review.
>> 
>
> This change looks good to me.
>
> Reviewed-by: Lianbo Jiang <lijiang@...hat.com>

Thanks for your review!

-- 
Thiago Jung Bauermann
IBM Linux Technology Center