Re: [PATCH Part1 RFC v2 10/20] x86/sev: Add a helper for the PVALIDATE instruction

[Brijesh Singh]

On 5/20/21 12:51 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 12:44:50PM -0500, Brijesh Singh wrote:
>> Hmm, I use the SIZEMISMATCH later in the patches.
> You do, where? Maybe I don't see it.

Sorry, my bad. Currently all the pages are pre-validated, and guest
kernel uses 4K in the page state change VMGEXIT. So, we should *not* see
the SIZEMISMATCH. This will happen when we move to lazy validation. I
mixed up with OVMF in which I validate pages as a large. I will drop the
macro.


>
>> Since I was introducing the pvalidate in separate patch so decided to
>> define all the return code.
> You can define them in a comment so that it is clear what PVALIDATE
> returns but not as defines when they're unused.

Got it.


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> Thx.
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