Re: [PATCH v3 3/8] x86/psp: Register PSP platform device when ASP table is present

[Jeremi Piotrowski]

On 20/03/2023 20:25, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 07:19:51PM +0000, Jeremi Piotrowski wrote:
>> The ASP table contains the memory location of the register window for
>> communication with the Platform Security Processor. The device is not
>> exposed as an acpi node, so it is necessary to probe for the table and
>> register a platform_device to represent it in the kernel.
>>
>> At least conceptually, the same PSP may be exposed on the PCIe bus as
>> well, in which case it would be necessary to choose whether to use a PCI
>> BAR or the register window defined in ASPT for communication. There is
>> no advantage to using the ACPI and there are no known bare-metal systems
>> that expose the ASP table, so device registration is restricted to the
>> only systems known to provide an ASPT: Hyper-V VMs. Hyper-V VMs also do
>> not expose the PSP over PCIe.
>>
>> This is a skeleton device at this point, as the ccp driver is not yet
>> prepared to correctly probe it. Interrupt configuration will come later
>> on as well.
>>
>> Acked-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@xxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Jeremi Piotrowski <jpiotrowski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  arch/x86/kernel/Makefile |  1 +
>>  arch/x86/kernel/psp.c    | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 
> If this is a platform device (driver), why isn't it part of
> the drivers/platform/x86/ lineup?
> 

Because of patch 4. My thinking was that the irq setup requires poking
at intimate architectural details (init_irq_alloc_info etc.) so it seems
like it fits in arch/x86.

I also drew inspiration from the sev-guest device in the arch/x86/kernel/sev.c,
which is used in a similar context (the PSP device I am registering here is
for SNP-host support).

Would you prefer it in drivers/platform/x86?

Jeremi