linux-kernel - Re: [RFC Part1 PATCH 04/13] x86/sev-snp: define page state change VMGEXIT structure

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Message-ID: <20210402154458.GI28499@zn.tnic>
Date:   Fri, 2 Apr 2021 17:44:58 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@....com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        ak@...ux.intel.com, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Joerg Roedel <jroedel@...e.de>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
        "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@....com>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC Part1 PATCH 04/13] x86/sev-snp: define page state change
 VMGEXIT structure

On Thu, Apr 01, 2021 at 09:11:34AM -0500, Brijesh Singh wrote:
> I guess I was trying to keep it in consistent with sev-es.h macro
> definitions in which the command is used before the fields. In next
> version, I will use the msb to lsb ordering.

Yes pls. And then you could fix the sev-es.h macro too, in a prepatch
maybe or in the same one, to do the same so that when reading the GHCB
doc, it maps directly to the macros.

> IIRC, the spec structure has uint<width>_t, so I used it as-is. No
> strong reason for using it. I will switch to u64 type in the next version.

Yeah, the uint* things are in the C spec but we don't need this
definition outside the kernel, right?

Thx.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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