linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 3/8] x86/psp: Register PSP platform device when ASP table is present

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Date:   Mon, 20 Mar 2023 22:03:02 +0100
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     Jeremi Piotrowski <jpiotrowski@...ux.microsoft.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@....com>,
        Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@....com>,
        "Kalra, Ashish" <ashish.kalra@....com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>, x86@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/8] x86/psp: Register PSP platform device when ASP
 table is present

On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 09:18:19PM +0100, Jeremi Piotrowski wrote:
> I agree with you here. The irq config of this thing requires specifying
> passing a CPU vector, this follows the hardware spec which I linked in the
> first 2 commits, pages 13-15 here:

You mean the interrupt vector in table 19?

> https://www.amd.com/system/files/TechDocs/58028_1.00-PUB.pdf
> 
> The only way I found to get this to work was going through x86_vector_domain
> or statically defining a system vector (the latter felt worse).

Hmm. Why is that thing special and can't use devm_request_irq() like the
rest of the drivers out there?

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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