linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v12 20/22] x86/virt/tdx: Allow SEAMCALL to handle #UD and #GP

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Message-ID: <78a1046cffc6db3345a65e98a7565cecb77fa302.camel@intel.com>
Date:   Sat, 1 Jul 2023 08:16:50 +0000
From:   "Huang, Kai" <kai.huang@...el.com>
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        "Hansen, Dave" <dave.hansen@...el.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v12 20/22] x86/virt/tdx: Allow SEAMCALL to handle #UD and
 #GP

On Fri, 2023-06-30 at 08:16 -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 6/30/23 03:18, Huang, Kai wrote:
> > > Please, because 12,14 are callee-saved, which means we need to go add
> > > push/pop to preserve them 🙁
> > Yes.
> > 
> > However those new SEAMCALLs are for TDX guest live migration support,  which is
> > at a year(s)-later thing from upstreaming's point of view.  My thinking is we
> > can defer supporting those new SEAMCALls until that phase.  Yes we need to do
> > some assembly change at that time, but also looks fine to me.
> > 
> > How does this sound?
> 
> It would sound better if the TDX module folks would take that year to
> fix the module and make it nicer for Linux. :)

Yeah agreed.  And we can push them to do when we find something needs to be
improved. :)