From: Peter Fang <peter.fang@intel.com>
To: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 5/6] x86/tdx: Add a helper to query maximum Quote size
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2026 08:38:29 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <arvbdYRLAbRmwb6l@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d71b319c-5a72-4e2a-b46d-c22a5817a854@intel.com>
On Tue, Sep 29, 2026 at 07:18:33AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> >>
> >> If the patch is suggested by Xu Uilun you can use Suggested-by:
> >
> > I think tip's preference is to use some prose rather than a tag for
> > these things [1]. So I'll probably keep the prose unless you have
> > objections?
> >
> > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/c1c9bddf-1c00-4625-a915-d545acd67fd0@intel.com/
>
> Actually, I'm not a huge fan of the prose in this case either.
> "Suggesting this" is not specific. What's the point of even mentioning it?
>
> Responding to a minor review comment does not need to get documented,
> either in prose or in a tag. What part of the suggestion was so
> important that it needs to be remembered for all time as coming from Xu
> Yilun in the commit log?
>
> It doesn't seem that important because I don't even see Xu Yilun on cc. ;)
Yeah, I guess I've just been keeping that line every version. It was
basically documenting an early review comment about tdg_vm_rd() being
able to read random fields. I can drop it.
> >>
> >> I think -ENODEV or -EOPNOTSUPP is more appropriate return value
> >> for unsupported case.
> >
> > Hmm, I don't see either one being a common pattern for guest-side TDX
> > code. -ENODEV is usually used for some basic operation failure.
> > -EOPNOTSUPP is not used in the guest. But between the two I think
> > -EOPNOTSUPP probably fits better. Thanks.
>
> Just leave it alone. All that matters is that it is non-zero. If it were
> going out to userspace, we could argue all day about it, but it's not.
I'll leave it as is. Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-29 15:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-28 10:08 [PATCH v5 0/6] tdx-guest: Make Quote buffer size dynamic Peter Fang
2026-09-28 10:08 ` [PATCH v5 1/6] x86/tdx: Take the Quote buffer as a generic pointer Peter Fang
2026-09-28 19:04 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2026-09-28 20:37 ` Peter Fang
2026-09-28 20:10 ` Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan
2026-09-28 10:08 ` [PATCH v5 2/6] virt: tdx-guest: Give the Quote buffer an explicit type Peter Fang
2026-09-28 19:14 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2026-09-28 20:16 ` Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan
2026-09-29 2:13 ` Binbin Wu
2026-09-29 7:41 ` Peter Fang
2026-09-29 7:43 ` Binbin Wu
2026-09-28 10:08 ` [PATCH v5 3/6] virt: tdx-guest: Calculate the Quote buffer size safely Peter Fang
2026-09-28 15:50 ` Dave Hansen
2026-09-28 20:53 ` Peter Fang
2026-09-28 10:08 ` [PATCH v5 4/6] virt: tdx-guest: Add a helper for the Quote buffer size Peter Fang
2026-09-28 16:13 ` Dave Hansen
2026-09-28 19:13 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2026-09-29 10:32 ` Peter Fang
2026-09-29 15:45 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2026-09-29 16:03 ` Peter Fang
2026-09-29 10:08 ` Peter Fang
2026-09-28 18:23 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2026-09-29 16:38 ` Peter Fang
2026-09-28 10:08 ` [PATCH v5 5/6] x86/tdx: Add a helper to query maximum Quote size Peter Fang
2026-09-28 18:35 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2026-09-28 21:00 ` Peter Fang
2026-09-28 18:50 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2026-09-28 21:13 ` Peter Fang
2026-09-28 21:25 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2026-09-28 21:25 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2026-09-28 22:47 ` Peter Fang
2026-09-28 23:01 ` Peter Fang
2026-09-29 10:40 ` Peter Fang
2026-09-28 20:32 ` Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan
2026-09-29 9:18 ` Peter Fang
2026-09-29 14:18 ` Dave Hansen
2026-09-29 15:38 ` Peter Fang [this message]
2026-09-28 10:08 ` [PATCH v5 6/6] virt: tdx-guest: Make the Quote buffer size dynamic Peter Fang
2026-09-28 20:37 ` Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan
2026-09-29 7:23 ` Peter Fang
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