From: "Edgecombe, Rick P" <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>
To: "kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Huang, Kai" <kai.huang@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] x86/virt/tdx: Move TDMR metadata fields map table to local variable
Date: Fri, 3 May 2024 00:09:38 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <21310a611d652f14b39da4a88a75ded1d155672e.camel@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41cd371d8a9caadf183e3ab464c57f9f715184d3.1709288433.git.kai.huang@intel.com>
On Sat, 2024-03-02 at 00:20 +1300, Kai Huang wrote:
> The kernel reads all TDMR related global metadata fields based on a
> table which maps the metadata fields to the corresponding members of
> 'struct tdx_tdmr_sysinfo'.
>
> Currently this table is a static variable. But this table is only used
> by the function which reads these metadata fields and becomes useless
> after reading is done.
>
> Change the table to function local variable. This also saves the
> storage of the table from the kernel image.
It seems like a reasonable change, but I don't see how it helps the purpose of
this series. It seems more like generic cleanup. Can you explain?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-05-03 0:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-03-01 11:20 [PATCH 0/5] TDX host: Provide TDX module metadata reading APIs Kai Huang
2024-03-01 11:20 ` [PATCH 1/5] x86/virt/tdx: Rename _offset to _member for TD_SYSINFO_MAP() macro Kai Huang
2024-05-03 0:07 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2024-05-06 11:34 ` Huang, Kai
2024-03-01 11:20 ` [PATCH 2/5] x86/virt/tdx: Move TDMR metadata fields map table to local variable Kai Huang
2024-05-03 0:09 ` Edgecombe, Rick P [this message]
2024-05-03 0:18 ` Huang, Kai
2024-05-03 0:29 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2024-05-03 0:54 ` Huang, Kai
2024-05-03 16:01 ` Dave Hansen
2024-05-06 8:04 ` Huang, Kai
2024-03-01 11:20 ` [PATCH 3/5] x86/virt/tdx: Unbind global metadata read with 'struct tdx_tdmr_sysinfo' Kai Huang
2024-05-03 0:12 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2024-05-03 0:52 ` Huang, Kai
2024-05-03 19:03 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2024-05-06 11:15 ` Huang, Kai
2024-03-01 11:20 ` [PATCH 4/5] x86/virt/tdx: Support global metadata read for all element sizes Kai Huang
2024-03-16 0:49 ` Isaku Yamahata
2024-03-20 12:24 ` Huang, Kai
2024-05-03 0:19 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2024-05-03 1:14 ` Huang, Kai
2024-05-03 12:10 ` Huang, Kai
2024-05-03 12:26 ` Huang, Kai
2024-05-03 18:32 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2024-05-06 10:59 ` Huang, Kai
2024-03-01 11:20 ` [PATCH 5/5] x86/virt/tdx: Export global metadata read infrastructure Kai Huang
2024-03-13 3:44 ` Xiaoyao Li
2024-03-15 0:24 ` Huang, Kai
2024-03-15 2:10 ` Xiaoyao Li
2024-05-03 0:21 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2024-05-03 2:17 ` Huang, Kai
2024-05-03 18:31 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2024-05-06 11:35 ` Huang, Kai
2024-05-06 15:43 ` Dave Hansen
2024-05-06 22:13 ` Huang, Kai
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