Re: [PATCH v6 04/11] x86/tdx: Add protected guest support for TDX guest

[Kuppuswamy, Sathyanarayanan]

On 9/28/21 4:46 AM, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 03, 2021 at 10:28:05AM -0700, Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan wrote:
> >   static inline bool prot_guest_has(unsigned int attr)
> >   {
> >   	if (sme_me_mask)
> >   		return amd_prot_guest_has(attr);
> > +	else if (boot_cpu_data.x86_vendor == X86_VENDOR_INTEL)
> > +		return intel_prot_guest_has(attr);
>
> This causes a function call on every Intel machine this code runs. is
> there an easier to check whether TDX is enabled, like the sme_me_mask
> check on AMD?

This will only be called when CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_CC_PLATFORM is set by a platform.
So it won't be called for all platforms.

Also, intel_prot_guest_has() is a generic Intel platform branch call (so we can't
directly check for TDX here).

>

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Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy
Linux Kernel Developer