linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 01/14] x86/sev: Rename snp_init() in the boot/compressed/sev.c file

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Message-ID: <20240310212521.GBZe4lQWwIQSBsaCLc@fat_crate.local>
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2024 22:25:21 +0100
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@....com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
	Michael Roth <michael.roth@....com>,
	Ashish Kalra <ashish.kalra@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 01/14] x86/sev: Rename snp_init() in the
 boot/compressed/sev.c file

On Fri, Mar 08, 2024 at 12:35:16PM -0600, Tom Lendacky wrote:
> @@ -478,7 +557,7 @@ void sev_enable(struct boot_params *bp)
>  	 * Setup/preliminary detection of SNP. This will be sanity-checked
>  	 * against CPUID/MSR values later.
>  	 */
> -	snp = snp_init(bp);
> +	snp = snp_setup(bp);

So if you call the compressed/sev.c version early_snp_init() or
boot_snp_init() or something similar, you know immediately when it is
called vs having to grep the tree to figure out which is which - was
snp_setup() early or was it in the kernel proper.  And so on...

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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