linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH V3 01/11] x86/HV: Initialize GHCB page in Isolation VM

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Message-ID: <20210607064142.GA24478@lst.de>
Date:   Mon, 7 Jun 2021 08:41:42 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Tianyu Lan <ltykernel@...il.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH V3 01/11] x86/HV: Initialize GHCB page in Isolation
 VM

On Sun, May 30, 2021 at 11:06:18AM -0400, Tianyu Lan wrote:
> +	if (ms_hyperv.ghcb_base) {
> +		rdmsrl(MSR_AMD64_SEV_ES_GHCB, ghcb_gpa);
> +
> +		ghcb_va = ioremap_cache(ghcb_gpa, HV_HYP_PAGE_SIZE);
> +		if (!ghcb_va)
> +			return -ENOMEM;

Can you explain this a bit more?  We've very much deprecated
ioremap_cache in favor of memremap.  Why yo you need a __iomem address
here?  Why do we need the remap here at all?

Does the data structure at this address not have any types that we
could use a struct for?

> +
> +		rdmsrl(MSR_AMD64_SEV_ES_GHCB, ghcb_gpa);
> +		ghcb_va = ioremap_cache(ghcb_gpa, HV_HYP_PAGE_SIZE);
> +		if (!ghcb_va) {

This seems to duplicate the above code.

> +bool hv_isolation_type_snp(void)
> +{
> +	return static_branch_unlikely(&isolation_type_snp);
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(hv_isolation_type_snp);

This probably wants a kerneldoc explaining when it should be used.