Re: [PATCH v5 03/17] x86/acrn: Introduce an API to check if a VM is privileged

[Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>]

On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 02:17:49PM +0800, shuo.a.liu@intel.com wrote:
> +bool acrn_is_privileged_vm(void)
> +{
> +	return cpuid_eax(acrn_cpuid_base() | ACRN_CPUID_FEATURES) &
> +			 ACRN_FEATURE_PRIVILEGED_VM;

I asked in the previous review why that acrn_cpuid_base() is used here,
you said that the base might vary. Looking at hypervisor_cpuid_base(),
it searches in the range [0x40000000, 0x40010000] with an 0x100 offset.

So you're saying that ACRN_CPUID_FEATURES is the first leaf beyond the
base. Close?

If so, why isn't the code doing this?

	return cpuid_eax(acrn_cpuid_base() + 1)...

and why doesn't it have a comment above it explaining that the base can
change and it needs to be discovered each time?

> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(acrn_is_privileged_vm);

Also, that acrn_is_privileged_vm() silly helper is used only once and
I don't like the exported symbols pollution we're doing. So make that
function give you the eax of ACRN_CPUID_FEATURES and callers can do
their testing themselves.

When it turns out that code patterns get repeated, you can then
aggregate stuff into a helper.

Thx.

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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