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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy  <sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	x86@kernel.org, Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	"H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	"Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
	Wander Lairson Costa <wander@redhat.com>,
	Erdem Aktas <erdemaktas@google.com>,
	Guorui Yu <GuoRui.Yu@linux.alibaba.com>,
	Du Fan <fan.du@intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 2/3] virt: tdx-guest: Add Quote generation support
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2023 08:30:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZCE4AJBX8zM53XCM@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d09f30f5-23da-4fb6-141e-3dd9483217c7@linux.intel.com>

On Sun, Mar 26, 2023 at 12:06:26PM -0700, Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy wrote:
> If usage of DMA APIs / platform device is not acceptable for this use case,

It is not ok to use a platform device for this because you just do not
have a platform device for it, don't make one up out of thin air please,
as that really doesn't even have the correct bindings to the DMA memory
that you want here.

> an alternative approach is to allocate a fixed number of shared buffers during
> the TDX guest driver probe and use it for GetQuote requests. Although it would
> limit the amount of memory we can use for GetQuote requests at a time and also
> reserve a chunk of memory during the init() time, I think it is an acceptable
> tradeoff when compared to alternative choices. The AMD SEV guest driver also
> adopts the similar approach. Please let me know if this approach is acceptable.

This sounds like a better approach.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2023-03-27  6:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-03-26  6:20 [PATCH v1 0/3] TDX Guest Quote generation support Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan
2023-03-26  6:20 ` [PATCH v1 1/3] x86/tdx: Add TDX Guest event notify interrupt support Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan
2023-03-28  2:38   ` Huang, Kai
2023-03-28  2:50     ` Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy
2023-03-28  4:02       ` Huang, Kai
2023-04-05  1:02         ` Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy
2023-04-05  2:45           ` Huang, Kai
2023-03-26  6:20 ` [PATCH v1 2/3] virt: tdx-guest: Add Quote generation support Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan
2023-03-26  6:34   ` Greg KH
2023-03-26 19:06     ` Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy
2023-03-27  6:30       ` Greg KH [this message]
2023-03-26  6:20 ` [PATCH v1 3/3] selftests/tdx: Test GetQuote TDX attestation feature Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan
2023-03-28 20:24   ` Shuah Khan
2023-03-27 17:36 ` [PATCH v1 0/3] TDX Guest Quote generation support Erdem Aktas
2023-03-28 19:59   ` Dionna Amalie Glaze
2023-03-28 20:43     ` Chong Cai

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