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From: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 5/5] x86/kvm: Avoid dynamic allocation of pvclock data
 when SEV is active
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2018 07:56:40 -0700
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On Thu, Sep 06, 2018 at 04:43:42PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 06, 2018 at 06:50:41AM -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > That would prevent adding __decrypted to existing declarations, e.g.
> > hv_clock_boot, which would be ugly in its own right.  A more generic
> > solution would be to add something like __decrypted_exclusive to mark
> 
> I still don't understand why can't there be only a single __decrypted
> section and to free that whole section on !SEV.

Wouldn't that result in @hv_clock_boot being incorrectly freed in the
!SEV case?