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Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2021 11:30:42 -0700 From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com> To: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>, Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Joerg Roedel <jroedel@...e.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>, Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan <sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@...ux.intel.com>, David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>, Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@....com>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Varad Gautam <varad.gautam@...e.com>, Dario Faggioli <dfaggioli@...e.com>, x86@...nel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-coco@...ts.linux.dev, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] efi/x86: Implement support for unaccepted memory On 8/9/21 11:26 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > +config UNACCEPTED_MEMORY > + bool > + depends on EFI_STUB > + help > + Some Virtual Machine platforms, such as Intel TDX, introduce > + the concept of memory acceptance, requiring memory to be accepted > + before it can be used by the guest. This protects against a class of > + attacks by the virtual machine platform. > + > + This option adds support for unaccepted memory and makes such memory > + usable by kernel. Do we really need a full-blown user-visible option here? If we, for instance, just did: config UNACCEPTED_MEMORY bool depends on EFI_STUB it could be 'select'ed from the TDX Kconfig and no users would ever be bothered with it. Would a user *ever* turn this on if they don't have TDX (or equivalent)?
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