linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH Part1 RFC v4 24/36] x86/compressed/acpi: move EFI config table access to common code

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Date:   Thu, 19 Aug 2021 19:09:42 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     Michael Roth <michael.roth@....com>
Cc:     Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@....com>, x86@...nel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-efi@...r.kernel.org, platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-coco@...ts.linux.dev, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Joerg Roedel <jroedel@...e.de>,
        Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@....com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@...cent.com>,
        Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Sergio Lopez <slp@...hat.com>, Peter Gonda <pgonda@...gle.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@...ux.intel.com>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Dov Murik <dovmurik@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Tobin Feldman-Fitzthum <tobin@....com>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>, tony.luck@...el.com,
        brijesh.ksingh@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH Part1 RFC v4 24/36] x86/compressed/acpi: move EFI config
 table access to common code

On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 09:58:31AM -0500, Michael Roth wrote:
> Not sure what you mean here. All the interfaces introduced here are used
> by acpi.c. There is another helper added later (efi_bp_find_vendor_table())
> in "enable SEV-SNP-validated CPUID in #VC handler", since it's not used
> here by acpi.c.

Maybe I got confused by the amount of changes in a single patch. I'll
try harder with your v5. :)

> There is the aforementioned efi_bp_find_vendor_table() that does the
> simple iteration, but I wasn't sure how to build the "find one of these,
> but this one is preferred" logic into it in a reasonable way.

Instead of efi_foreach_conf_entry() you simply do a bog-down simple
loop and each time you stop at a table, you examine it and overwrite
pointers, if you've found something better.

With "overwrite pointers" I mean you cache the pointers to those conf
tables you iterate over and dig out so that you don't have to do it a
second time. That is, *if* you need them a second time. I believe you
call at least efi_bp_get_conf_table() twice... you get the idea.

> I could just call it once for each of these GUIDs though. I was
> hesitant to do so since it's less efficient than existing code, but if
> it's worth it for the simplification then I'm all for it.

Yeah, this is executed once during boot so I don't think you can make it
more efficient than a single iteration over the config table blobs.

I hope that makes more sense.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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