linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 05/70] x86/insn: Make inat-tables.c suitable for pre-decompression code

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Message-ID: <20200417133959.GE21900@8bytes.org>
Date:   Fri, 17 Apr 2020 15:39:59 +0200
From:   Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>
To:     Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>
Cc:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, Joerg Roedel <jroedel@...e.de>,
        x86@...nel.org, hpa@...or.com, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@...are.com>,
        Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@....com>,
        Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/70] x86/insn: Make inat-tables.c suitable for
 pre-decompression code

On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 09:50:00PM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Apr 2020 17:24:06 +0200
> Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org> wrote:

> Ah, I got it. So you intended to port the instruction decoder to
> pre-decompression boot code, correct?

Right, it is needed there to decode instructions which cause #VC
exceptions when running as an SEV-ES guest.

> > The call-site is added with the patch that includes the
> > instruction decoder into the pre-decompression code. If possible I'd
> > like to keep those things separate, as both patches are already pretty
> > big by themselfes (and they do different things, in different parts of
> > the code).
> 
> OK, if you will send v2, please CC both to me.

Will do, I added you to the cc-list for future posts of this series.


Regards,

	Joerg