linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv6 02/15] mm: Add support for unaccepted memory

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Date:   Thu, 19 May 2022 16:33:15 +0200
From:   "Gupta, Pankaj" <pankaj.gupta@....com>
To:     "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     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>,
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        Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
        Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan 
        <sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@...ux.intel.com>,
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        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
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        Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv6 02/15] mm: Add support for unaccepted memory


> On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 12:43:15PM +0200, Gupta, Pankaj wrote:
>> If both Intel TDX and AMD SEV-SNP requires the memory to be accepted before
>> it can be used by the guest. In what other use cases (apart from memory
>> hotplug), the lazy memory acceptance will be useful?
> 
> It is nothing to do with hotplug.
> 
> Any memory has to be accepted before it can be used inside the TDX or
> SEV-SNP guest. It can happen upfront, before kernel gets control (like by
> firmware) or by kernel. The idea is to accept small portion of the memory
> upfront and leave the rest to the kernel. The reason why delaying
> acceptance make sense is boot time. We want the guest to start doing
> useful stuff as fast as possible.

o.k. That answers my question. Thank you!

Best regards,
Pankaj