linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 5/5] x86/kvm: Add guest support for detecting and enabling SEV Live Migration feature.

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Date:   Mon, 28 Jun 2021 19:34:41 +0000
From:   Ashish Kalra <ashish.kalra@....com>
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc:     Steve Rutherford <srutherford@...gle.com>, pbonzini@...hat.com,
        seanjc@...gle.com, tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com,
        hpa@...or.com, joro@...tes.org, thomas.lendacky@....com,
        x86@...nel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        brijesh.singh@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 5/5] x86/kvm: Add guest support for detecting and
 enabling SEV Live Migration feature.

Hello Steve,

Do you have any final thoughts on this ?

I do need to resend the patch as per Boris's review below and i want to
do that before the merge window closes. 

Thanks,
Ashish

On Sat, Jun 26, 2021 at 12:22:52AM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 25, 2021 at 02:02:32PM -0700, Steve Rutherford wrote:
> > Boris, do you have any thoughts on the kexec aspect of this change?
> 
> I'm suspecting you're asking here the wrong guy - I think you mean
> Paolo.
> 
> But if I were to give some thoughts on this, I'd first request that this
> patch be split because it is doing a bunch of things at once.
> 
> Then, I have no clue what "kexec support for SEV Live Migration" is. So
> this whole use case would need a lot more detailed explanation of all
> the moving parts and the "why" and the "because" and so on...
> 
> But I'm no virt guy so perhaps this all makes sense to virt folks.
> 
> Oh, and there's silly stuff like
> 
> +static int __init setup_efi_kvm_sev_migration(void)
> {
> 	...
> 	return true;
> }
> 
> returning a bool but that's minor.
> 
> -- 
> Regards/Gruss,
>     Boris.
> 
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