Re: [PATCHv3 1/3] x86/mm/encrypt: Move page table helpers into separate translation unit
From: Tom Lendacky
Date: Tue Jan 30 2018 - 17:26:18 EST
On 1/24/2018 10:36 AM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> There are bunch of functions in mem_encrypt.c that operate on the
> identity mapping, which means they want virtual addresses to be equal to
> physical one, without PAGE_OFFSET shift.
>
> We also need to avoid paravirtualizaion call there.
>
> Getting this done is tricky. We cannot use usual page table helpers.
> It forces us to open-code a lot of things. It makes code ugly and hard
> to modify.
>
> We can get it work with the page table helpers, but it requires few
> preprocessor tricks. These tricks may have side effects for the rest of
> the file.
>
> Let's isolate such functions into own translation unit.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Just one minor comment at the end. With that change:
Reviewed-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/mm/Makefile | 14 +-
> arch/x86/mm/mem_encrypt.c | 578 +----------------------------------
> arch/x86/mm/mem_encrypt_identity.c | 596 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> arch/x86/mm/mm_internal.h | 1 +
> 4 files changed, 607 insertions(+), 582 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 arch/x86/mm/mem_encrypt_identity.c
>
...
> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/mm_internal.h b/arch/x86/mm/mm_internal.h
> index 4e1f6e1b8159..7b4fc4386d90 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/mm/mm_internal.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/mm_internal.h
> @@ -19,4 +19,5 @@ extern int after_bootmem;
>
> void update_cache_mode_entry(unsigned entry, enum page_cache_mode cache);
>
> +extern bool sev_enabled __section(.data);
Lets move this into arch/x86/include/asm/mem_encrypt.h and then add
#include <linux/mem_encrypt.h> to mem_encrypt_identity.c.
Thanks,
Tom
> #endif /* __X86_MM_INTERNAL_H */
>