Re: [Patch v3 1/2] cgroup: sev: Add misc cgroup controller

Tom Lendacky
2021-03-12T21:19:25Z

On 3/12/21 2:51 PM, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 12, 2021, Vipin Sharma wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 07:59:03PM +0100, Michal Koutný wrote:
>>>> +#ifndef CONFIG_KVM_AMD_SEV
>>>> +/*
>>>> + * When this config is not defined, SEV feature is not supported and APIs in
>>>> + * this file are not used but this file still gets compiled into the KVM AMD
>>>> + * module.
>>>> + *
>>>> + * We will not have MISC_CG_RES_SEV and MISC_CG_RES_SEV_ES entries in the enum
>>>> + * misc_res_type {} defined in linux/misc_cgroup.h.
>>> BTW, was there any progress on conditioning sev.c build on
>>> CONFIG_KVM_AMD_SEV? (So that the defines workaround isn't needeed.)
>>
>> Tom, Brijesh,
>> Is this something you guys thought about or have some plans to do in the
>> future? Basically to not include sev.c in compilation if
>> CONFIG_KVM_AMD_SEV is disabled.
>
> It's crossed my mind, but the number of stubs needed made me back off. I'm
> certainly not opposed to the idea, it's just not a trivial change.

Right, I looked at it when I was doing the SEV-ES work and came to the
same conclusion.

Thanks,
Tom

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