Re: [PATCH v5 2/9] vmx: spp: Add control flags for Sub-Page Protection(SPP)

[Yang Weijiang]

On Fri, Oct 04, 2019 at 02:02:22PM -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 04, 2019 at 01:48:34PM -0700, Jim Mattson wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 1:52 AM Yang Weijiang <weijiang.yang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > @@ -7521,6 +7527,10 @@ static __init int hardware_setup(void)
> > >         if (!cpu_has_vmx_flexpriority())
> > >                 flexpriority_enabled = 0;
> > >
> > > +       if (cpu_has_vmx_ept_spp() && enable_ept &&
> > > +           boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_SPP))
> > > +               spp_supported = 1;
> > 
> > Don't cpu_has_vmx_ept_spp() and boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_SPP) test
> > exactly the same thing?
> 
> More or less.  I'm about to hit 'send' on a series to eliminate the
> synthetic VMX features flags.  If that goes through, the X86_FEATURE_SPP
> flag can also go away.

Thank you, these two are synonyms. I'll remove one next time.