linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 06/15] x86/sev: Drop redundant and potentially misleading 'sev

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Date:   Thu, 22 Apr 2021 14:18:29 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
To:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Cc:     Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@...cent.com>,
        Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@....com>,
        Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 06/15] x86/sev: Drop redundant and potentially
 misleading 'sev_enabled'

On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 02:05:46PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Boris or another x86 maintainer, can you ack this small patch?  We would
> like to use sev_enabled as a static variable in KVM.

Yeah, all those "is anything SEV-like enabled" mechanisms would need
refactoring before it goes nuts. I think we should do this

bool sev_feature_enabled(enum sev_feature)

thing at some point:

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210421144402.GB5004@zn.tnic

And TDX would probably need something similar.

Thx.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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