Re: [PATCH v8 01/40] x86/compressed/64: detect/setup SEV/SME features earlier in boot

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Wed Dec 15 2021 - 15:39:03 EST


On Wed, Dec 15, 2021 at 02:17:34PM -0600, Michael Roth wrote:
> and if fields are added in the future:
>
> sev_parse_cpuid(AMD_SEV_BIT, &me_bit_pos, &vte_enabled, &new_feature_enabled, etc..)

And that will end up being a vararg function because of who knows what
other feature bits will have to get passed in? You have even added the
ellipsis in there.

Nope. Definitely not.

> or if that eventually becomes unwieldly

The above example is already unwieldy.

> it could later be changed to return a feature mask.

Yes, that. Clean and simple.

But it is hard to discuss anything without patches so we can continue
the topic with concrete patches. But this unification is not
super-pressing so it can go ontop of the SNP pile.

Thx.

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