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Message-ID: <9198cc36-67d6-9365-5d18-f23ba4075151@linux.intel.com>
Date:   Tue, 19 Apr 2022 05:48:57 -0700
From:   Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy 
        <sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, Kai Huang <kai.huang@...el.com>
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>,
        Mark Gross <mgross@...ux.intel.com>,
        "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] platform/x86: intel_tdx_attest: Add TDX Guest
 attestation interface driver



On 4/19/22 1:13 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2022 at 07:47:33PM +1200, Kai Huang wrote:
>>  From this perspective, I am not sure what's the value of having a dedicated
>> INTEL_TDX_ATTESTATION Kconfig.  The attestation support code should be turned on
>> unconditionally when CONFIG_INTEL_TDX_GUEST is on.  The code can also be just
>> under arch/x86/coco/tdx/ I guess?
>>
>> But I'll leave this to maintainers.
> 
> Similar story with the unaccepted memory gunk. If it is not going to
> be used outside of encrypted guests, why are we polluting our already
> insanely humongous Kconfig space with more symbols?
> 

Make sense. We can just go with CONFIG_INTEL_TDX_ATTESTATION.

Boris, this is a simple platform driver which adds IOCTL interfaces to 
allow user space to get TDREPORT and TDQuote support.

So, would prefer to leave in platform/x86 or move it to arch/x86/coco/tdx/ ?

-- 
Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy
Linux Kernel Developer

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