linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v3 00/59] KVM: X86: TDX support

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Date:   Wed, 1 Dec 2021 11:08:56 -0800
From:   Isaku Yamahata <isaku.yamahata@...il.com>
To:     Kai Huang <kai.huang@...el.com>
Cc:     Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>, isaku.yamahata@...el.com,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@...cent.com>,
        Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>, erdemaktas@...gle.com,
        Connor Kuehl <ckuehl@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kvm@...r.kernel.org, isaku.yamahata@...il.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3 00/59] KVM: X86: TDX support

On Thu, Dec 02, 2021 at 02:22:27AM +1300,
Kai Huang <kai.huang@...el.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 30 Nov 2021 18:51:52 +0000 Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 24, 2021, isaku.yamahata@...el.com wrote:
> > > - drop load/initialization of TDX module
> > 
> > So what's the plan for loading and initializing TDX modules?
> 
> Although I don't quite understand what does Isaku mean here (I thought
> loading/initializing TDX module was never part of TDX KVM series), for this part
> we are working internally to improve the quality and finalize the code, but
> currently I don't have ETA of being able to send patches out, but we are trying
> to send out asap.  Sorry this is what I can say for now : (

v1/v2 has it. Anyway The plan is what Kai said.  The code will reside in the x86
common directory instead of kvm.

The only dependency between the part of loading/initializing TDX module and
TDX KVM is only single function to get the info about the TDX module.
-- 
Isaku Yamahata <isaku.yamahata@...il.com>