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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
To: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Cc: "Brijesh Singh" <brijesh.singh@amd.com>,
	x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, "Tom Lendacky" <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>,
	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	"Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	"Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 5/5] x86/kvm: Avoid dynamic allocation of pvclock data when SEV is active
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2018 16:44:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180906144444.GC11144@zn.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180906141825.GB370@linux.intel.com>

On Thu, Sep 06, 2018 at 07:18:25AM -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> Oh, and we'd need to make sure __decrypted_exclusive is freed when
> !CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT, and preferably !sev_active() since the big
> array is used only if SEV is active.  This patch unconditionally
> defines hv_clock_dec but only frees it if CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT=y &&
> !mem_encrypt_active().

We should not go nuts and complicate the code only to save us a couple
of KBs.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

SUSE Linux GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg)
-- 

  reply	other threads:[~2018-09-06 14:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-06 11:42 [PATCH v5 0/5] x86: Fix SEV guest regression Brijesh Singh
2018-09-06 11:42 ` [PATCH v5 1/5] x86/mm: Restructure sme_encrypt_kernel() Brijesh Singh
2018-09-06 11:42 ` [PATCH v5 2/5] x86/mm: fix sme_populate_pgd() to update page flags Brijesh Singh
2018-09-06 11:43 ` [PATCH v5 3/5] x86/mm: add .data..decrypted section to hold shared variables Brijesh Singh
2018-09-06 11:43 ` [PATCH v5 4/5] x86/kvm: use __decrypted attribute in " Brijesh Singh
2018-09-06 11:43 ` [PATCH v5 5/5] x86/kvm: Avoid dynamic allocation of pvclock data when SEV is active Brijesh Singh
2018-09-06 12:24   ` Borislav Petkov
2018-09-06 13:50     ` Sean Christopherson
2018-09-06 14:18       ` Sean Christopherson
2018-09-06 14:44         ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2018-09-06 18:37         ` Brijesh Singh
2018-09-06 18:47           ` Sean Christopherson
2018-09-06 19:24             ` Brijesh Singh
2018-09-06 19:46               ` Brijesh Singh
2018-09-06 19:47               ` Sean Christopherson
2018-09-06 20:20                 ` Brijesh Singh
2018-09-06 20:39                   ` Sean Christopherson
2018-09-06 21:56                     ` Brijesh Singh
2018-09-06 14:43       ` Borislav Petkov
2018-09-06 14:56         ` Sean Christopherson
2018-09-06 15:19           ` Borislav Petkov
2018-09-06 15:54             ` Sean Christopherson
2018-09-06 18:33               ` Borislav Petkov
2018-09-06 18:43                 ` Brijesh Singh
2018-09-06 18:45                 ` Sean Christopherson
2018-09-06 19:03                   ` Borislav Petkov
2018-09-06 17:50       ` Brijesh Singh
2018-09-06 14:07   ` Sean Christopherson
2018-09-06 18:50     ` Brijesh Singh
2018-09-07  3:57       ` Brijesh Singh

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