linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 04/21] x86/virt/tdx: Add skeleton for detecting and initializing TDX on demand

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Date:   Tue, 19 Apr 2022 22:21:27 -0700
From:   Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
To:     Kai Huang <kai.huang@...el.com>,
        Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy 
        <sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@...ux.intel.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     seanjc@...gle.com, pbonzini@...hat.com, len.brown@...el.com,
        tony.luck@...el.com, rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com,
        reinette.chatre@...el.com, dan.j.williams@...el.com,
        peterz@...radead.org, ak@...ux.intel.com,
        kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com, isaku.yamahata@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 04/21] x86/virt/tdx: Add skeleton for detecting and
 initializing TDX on demand

On 4/19/22 21:37, Kai Huang wrote:
> On Tue, 2022-04-19 at 07:53 -0700, Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy wrote:
>> On 4/5/22 9:49 PM, Kai Huang wrote:
>>> The TDX module is essentially a CPU-attested software module running
>>> in the new Secure Arbitration Mode (SEAM) to protect VMs from malicious
>>> host and certain physical attacks.  The TDX module implements the
>> /s/host/hosts
> I don't quite get.  Could you explain why there are multiple hosts?

This one is an arbitrary language tweak.  This:

	to protect VMs from malicious host and certain physical attacks.

could also be written:

	to protect VMs from malicious host attacks and certain physical
	attacks.

But, it's somewhat more compact to do what was writen.  I agree that the
language is a bit clumsy and could be cleaned up, but just doing
s/host/hosts/ doesn't really improve anything.